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How long can you hold your breath? Can you hold it for 30 seconds or a minute? Can you touch the bottom of a 12 foot pool and come back up? Free diving are these fascinations to the absolute extreme, wether its riding on a motor scooter to the bottom of the ocean or powering your way with a mono fin. Free divers are obsessed with pushing themselves mentally and physic...

Just a spoonful of mushrooms helps your day go down...but not even a spoonful, we are talking about 1/10th a normal dose - a microdose to use common vernacular. Welcome to the wild world of microdosing where taking just a tiny bit of a psychadelic per day...like your Vitamin C in the morning can fight off depression, anxiety and make you more productive! Seem too good too be true? Well maybe it is...

Once the sole intellectual property of the military and NASA, consumer virtual reality experiences have exploded in the last 10 years starting with the invention of the Oculus Rift. Well, the technology hasn't exactly exploded, more like...trickled. Today virtual reality is being used by almost every industry, from real estate to retail and even theatre art, so why doesn't everyone you know have a...

Lions Mane, L-Theanine, Modafinil, Electromagnetic Headbands? Welcome to the crazy bananas world of nootropics! Nootropics were made famous by silicon valley types in order to acquire that slight edge to get ahead, whether that edge was to be acquired by microdosing or coffee enemas didn't seem to matter as much as the justified means. Come with us today as we explore the world of biohacking and p...

Rogue Detection Team's (a dog and the dog's bounder) travel around the world to assist researchers in finding endangered species such as: pangolin, wolf, cheetah, orca, spotted owl, and the pacific pocket mouse. These bounders form unique relationships with their dog charges and in this episode we learn about the special partnership and training you can have with your canine companion. Suzie also...

Alaska is the only state that's land is 99% federally owned, it has North America's tallest mountain (Denali) and it's illegal to whisper to someone when they are about to shoot a mouse. Alaska is a unique state, with specific and interesting challenges, especially now that Biden is rolling out aggressive climate change plans for the long term goal of keeping the planet from warming...However, the...

On this episode of The Nitty Gritty, Noah talks to author and journalist Michael Finkel about his book "A Stranger In The Woods." The book is incredibly dope and thought provoking, it is about a man that survived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years. Can we ask you for a favor? Please rate and subscribe on itunes, the 5 star kind of course! It really helps :) We will forever be in your debt, t...

The Japanese fuedal years were a savage period to live in. Many people fought and died in the disputes between powerful warlords called Shogun and the warriors that fought for them were known as Samurai. Samurai legend and culture still form much of the bedrock of Japanese culture. Today, we take a look at a few legendary samurai and their unique tales of courage, tragedy, honor and bravery. Can w...

There's over 3 million shipwrecks worldwide and we've only explored 1% of them. Shipwrecks are attractive to many different organisms, from the actual fish that turn wrecks into reef habitats, to treasure hunters looking to pull billions of dollars worth of lost booty from the ocean floor. They can be graves and memorials to soldiers lost in war, and many shipwrecks have a cultural and historical...

On this episode of The Nitty Grirtty, Adam talks to Julie Laurin about all things microscopic and the mind blowing world of water bears and snow micro-organisms. Julie Laurin is an artist and science communicator from Ontario, Canada. Last year Julie created a science project like none I’d ever seen before called A Tiny World where she shares videos of the microscopic world and its tiny inhabitant...

Fact Correction: In the pod we accidentally mention Justin Trudeau as the Prime Minister of France. He is in fact the Prime Minister of Canada. Also, The Keystone XL pipeline was not going to run from Alaska it would have run from Alberta, Canada. We Love You Canada! Sorry! President Biden signed seventeen executive orders on his first day in office. Four of those were directed specifically at hal...

Cannibalism was once thought as a behavior only witnessed in conditions of extreme survival - a necessary tactic to outlast starvation or some other extreme environmental stressor. But as we have come to understand this behavior more…it appears that cannibalism is pretty damn common in animals, and maybe even in humans as well? We are now starting to accept cannibalism as a natural behav...

It's time to go boom boom and make a zoom zoom (I'm not sure what that means), and get down once again with the wild weird world of animal sex. There's so many ways to get it on in the animal world. From snakes that form a mating ball to kangaroos with multiple vaginas, and don't even get me started on the insect sex...this episode is a banger, literally. Can we ask you for a favor? Please rate an...

If you're anything like me, whenever the new year rolls around in the deep dark winter time you start to think of new things you want to do in the coming trip around the sun, mountains you want to climb, bridges you want to cross...that type of thing. But usually these goals end up falling off after a few months, the motivation to get up in the morning and get after them wearing off almost as quic...

"You take the blue pill you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe...you take the red pill, you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." In The Matrix, humans have mastered interfacing with computers so much so, that a plug can be inserted into your neck to experience a collective fake simulation. This elevated mouse and keyboard may no longer be in...

Life without time, without numbers, without jobs, without credit scores? What could an existence without modern infrastructure look like? In this episode we take a look at a few peoples that are still living in extremely remote regions of the planet, places barely contacted by the threads of the modern age. We can learn so much from looking at the lives of these people; how to be present, make som...

He knows when you are sleeping. He knows when you're awake. Krampus is coming to town! Christmas as we know it is a holiday full of whimsy, wistfulness, and chestnuts roasting over an open fire. But it didn't used to be this way, in fact Christmas time was the complete opposite and dominated by savagery, pagan beats and fear. We explore the fascinating world of the old dark winter holidays in Euro...

Space...the final frontier is full of unsolved and unexplained phenomena. What's a more important question than answering why are we here? and are we alone in the universe? Shedding light on these essential mysteries can help us uncover some answers to these questions. Plus, its super fun to think about a particle smaller than an atom that weights more than our sun...or a giant intelligent kraken...

Jayden Klinac is the founder of For The Better Good, a New Zealand company that is turning water bottles into compost, and therefore soil, and therefore food at its urban garden. Jayden's company eliminates the waste in its process in a very cool way...instead of waiting for others to throw out or recycle the bottles For The Better Good actually owns boxes spread around New Zealand, where employee...

15% of Americans have tried yoga in the past 6 months. It is a form of physical martial art dominated by women and popular clothing brands. I also love yoga, Noah...not so much. We thought it would be prudent to try and cut through all of the faux namaste level marketing content you see online (13 ways yoga will make you feel incredible!) And get down and dirty with actual scientific studies to se...

If mars is the next stop on our journey through the stars how might we prepare the planet for human habitation? In The Martian, Matt Damon forges a livelihood out of a small enclosure built for several humans to live in, but can we do this on a civilization wide scale? We talk about giant alien squids living under Mars's icecaps, nuclear rockets releasing greenhouse gases and other fun theoretical...

Abominable Snowman, Ego-Bogu, Yeti, Sasquatch! Cultures across the globe have the same monster lurking around in their forests, a giant hairy man! Part human and part ape, this hominid supposedly wanders the forest and steals, kills, and freaks people out. Why do so many cultures through time (medieval, and native american) have a myth of a hairy man haunting their societies? Is there any truth to...

she loves me...she loves me not...she loves me? She loves me! Online dating officially started with 1995's kiss.com and has evolved into the modern apps that almost half of all on-the-dating-market Americans use today. So how did this revolution come about? Are these apps helping us or hurting us? Is there validity to the common complaints we hear from men and woman on these sites? This is a fasci...

Festivus...a festival for the rest of us. Halloween and Thanksgiving are over and the new year is just around the corner. These are our usual get togethers and we wouldn't want to change them...instead, we want more days of feasting and partying! We looked around the world to see what celebrations we would love to attend and bring into our calendars and the results were even wilder then we could h...

Imagine you were the architect of a virtual simulation as complicated as our universe, what would you create? Star Trek, The Matrix, Ready Player One...lots and lots of science fiction plays with the notion that our reality might actually be a glorified video game. From Elon Musk to Neil Tyson, many popular minds are pretty sure there's a non-zero chance we are living on The Holodeck. So what's th...