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Brothers of the Serpent

Sep 30, 2017

We start this episode discussing how modern sports teams can generate a sense of community and commonality in their home cities, creating a situation similar to the ancient "city-states" of Sumer, Akkad, Assyria, etc.

We briefly discuss the ongoing project to propose methods for encoding our modern civilization's...


Sep 21, 2017

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Sep 14, 2017


  "C'mon you apes! You wanta live forever?"   -Unknown platoon sergeant, 1918

We discuss life expectancy, from the microbiological causes of aging to theoretical possibilities of physical immortality, and the intriguing fact that many ancient civilizations recorded extraordinary long lives of remote ancestors.
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Sep 11, 2017

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Sep 2, 2017


On this post-eclipse pre-apocalypse episode we start out by speculating that the Solar Eclipse that just passed across the U.S. is the reason for the sudden macrosizing of Hurricane Harvey, which went on to drown  large areas of Texas beneath immense floods of water and, for a brief time, turning the area back into...