The Information Entropy Podcast

PLANTS! Plants have been holding out on you, they are way more interesting than you ever thought… come and find out why! The boys explore some random plant facts at the top of the show including the methods and madness of carnivorous plants and why bamboo, growing so fast, is an incredible plant and the implications it has had on the world. Tom takes us into the cells to explain how photosynthesis...

VIRTUAL REALITY! Welcome everyone to the Information Entropy Podcast where this week Mitch and Tom use Peripheral as a launching point to discuss the topic of virtual reality! What is it in the first place and how does the technology work? Tom explores how simply putting a visor over your eyes tricks your brain into thinking you are really in a virtual world while Mitch explores the current state...

CLONING! Join Mitch and Tom this week as they take a look at cloning! The boys start off the show talking about their experience with potentially finding out that they are on the neurodivergent spectrum before getting back on track and talking about dinosaurs! Which is your favourite? Mitch tackles everything that is wrong with the Jurassic Park movies while Tom takes us on a tour of how cloning i...

EXTINCTION part 2! It’s the end of the world as we know it in this weeks wrap-up to the topic of extinction! Mitch brings in the show with some space news while Tom asks the question of when extinction actually begins. The boys dive in to the apocalyptic scenario of Aliens as they work their way through Alien, War of the Worlds, Independence Day, and more as they discuss the plausibility of these...

EXTINCTION! Welcome one and all, come in and join Mitch and Tom as they explore the topic of extinction! The boys use extinction as a base to dive into some really interesting debates around the idea of infinity, whether we will ever run out of music, the great dying, zombie law, rapid human evolution during the black death, tardigrades, and much more! So, come and join the conversation and if you...

EVOLUTION II – Mitch and Tom are eelated to be back this week and speaking about Evolution once again! Mitch leads off the show with some groundbreaking news and how a lettuce lasted longer than Truss, while Tom ponders some evolution shortcuts and the future of human evolution… have we stopped evolving? The boys look into the evolutionary effects that lead to the most profound changes and of cour...

EVOLUTION! Welcome to the Information Entropy Podcast, join Mitch and Tom on an adventure this week as they strive to cover all things evolution! The boys start off with a mental health update, 90s cartoon nostalgia, and the evolution of Pokemon! When on topic the boys manage to discuss what evolution is, the mechanisms through which it acts in nature, types of evolution, and how animals might spe...

AGEING CONTINUES! This week on The Information Entropy Podcast, Mitch and Tom return to the topic of ageing. They stay about as on track as you can expect and use ageing as a springboard to investigate interestingly related questions! Tom starts out with various theories of ageing and Mitch asks if we have a genetic age limit… Tom fails to impress with his hypotheticals :( The boys discuss pain re...

AGEING….kind of! Welcome back to the Information Entropy Podcast where this week you join Mitch and Tom at an interesting time of their lives! They start the episode revealing the weeks that they have had (including trips to A&E) which lays the foundation for the randomness of this week’s show! The boys talk about NASA throwing a rocket at an asteroid before cracking on with ageing: do we experien...

BIODIVERSITY! This week on The Information Entropy Podcast, join Mitch and Tom as they explore the world of biodiversity! Before kicking off the topic they head down the rabbit hole of giant squids (#Squode) and how quickly we can expect to have quantum computing in our homes. Moving onto biodiversity, Tom tries his best to show you that as per usual we know nothing by debating and exploring the p...

NANOTECHNOLOGY! Join Mitch and Tom this week as they explore Nanotech! Tom makes you re-think water while Mitch has some nano-facts. What is nanotechnology and what happens when you shrink things down and make them more complex? Mitch explores the research that involves nanotechnology and nanomaterials while Tom has a moment of existential dread… what else is new? Music - EVA - 失望した

TERRAFORMING! Is it a sci-fi pipe dream or is it becoming more of a reality than we first thought? Join Mitch and Tom this week as they explore what terraforming is! Tom and Mitch go over the history of terraforming in the fiction and academic fields where Mitch then takes us on a tour of the solar system explaining how we would need to change each planet to make it habitable. Tom explores some al...

GEOENGINEERING! Welcome to the Information Entropy Podcast where this week Mitch and Tom will take you through the world of geoengineering! The boys start out discussing the latest NASA Artemis mission before moving onto topic with China seeding clouds to induce rain. They cover the basics of geoengineering and the two main proposed methods that refer to solar manipulation and the removal of carbo...

Welcome to the Information Entropy Podcast! Join Mitch and Tom this week as they look at the ins and outs of ANIMAL MIGRATION! Starting off with some interesting news and at periodic intervals the boys migrate away from the topic at hand but this is an episode you don’t want to miss! The main content promises to uncover what migration is and how it’s different to normal movement, types of migratio...

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE…will it be our end? Join Mitch and Tom this week as they talk about artificial intelligence! What is at the roots of this massive topic and how do we get machines to learn? The boys cover the ins and outs of self-driving cars, neural networks, machine learning, and types of AI. Make sure you stick around to the end of the show to hear about how AI is being used to create ar...

ELECTRIC VEHICLES! Are they as sustainable as you think? Are they as safe as you think? Find out this week as the boys delve deep into electric vehicles and make many a bad pun along the way! After Mitch’s awesome news on Dark Matter, Tom brings things back to basics and asks just what is an electric car and what types are there. Mitch delves into batteries and their function and Tom expands how b...

ADDICTION! Join the boys this week as they help you to understand addiction better! After the news about necrorobotics (animating dead spiders) and reviving organs in pigs the boys crack on with the main content. Tom explains what addiction is and how our perception has changed while also deep diving into the neurological affects of addiction and how it moulds your brain. Mitch talks about the psy...

Welcome to the Information Entropy Podcast, this week Mitch and Tom enter the mind-bending world of paradoxes! Mitch shares his news about how humans are not adapting to heat as well as first thought and Tom examines the influence of bad science. Heading into Paradoxes, join the boys as they explain what they are, the types that you might come across, and then some specific paradoxes. The ship of...

Welcome to the Information Entropy Podcast, this week Mitch and Tom finish their discussion on Simulation Theory! This week the boys kick off with some news about bad science and detecting diseases from our teardrops. Mitch explores the anthropic principle in relation to simulation theory and how, if true, we should be at the lowest simulated level. Meanwhile Tom talks about how to complete the si...

Welcome to the Information Entropy Podcast where this week Mitch and Tom took time out to live report on the James Webb Space Telescope’s first ever images. No doubt you have seen them but the boys go through each one and explain just what makes it so amazing! When they get onto the topic at hand they take a deep dive into simulation theory! Are there any proofs that we live in a simulation? Elect...

Welcome to the Information Entropy Podcast! Join Mitch and Tom this week as they actually stay slightly on topic for once :D The boys get the news of the week out of the way and then move on to the Large Hadron Collider! Mitch goes into detail about what it is, how it was built, and how it operates. Tom fills us in on the standard particle physics model, and how the large hadron collider works. To...

Welcome to the Information Entropy Podcast, science in theory but comedy in practice! The boys aim to return to their senses this week after last weeks tangent and they do well to stay on track… sort of. Starting out with some interesting news of the week they explore domestication syndrome and how space affects bone structure. On topic Mitch takes us through the world of electroreception and how...

Welcome to the Information Entropy Podcast where this week the boys aimed to talk about senses in the animal kingdom and tangented so hard that the title is no longer appropriate! The boys kick off the show as normal with some news of the week and a quick gander into what senses are. Soon though the boys move from senses to how our brains perceive the world differently, firstly to other animals an...

This week on The Information Entropy podcast, join Tom and Mitch as they explore how we perceive the world through our senses! As per usual the boys get side-tracked by starting the show off with some news talking about some exciting space discoveries and how scientists are using human skin to make robots more likeable… yes really, this is where Skynet begins. Back on track though the boys explore...

Join Mitch and Tom this week as they explore the mind in terms of cognitive biases! Have you every wondered why you make the decisions that you do or why you think the way that you do? Then cognitive biases may be the reason why and understanding them helps us change! The boys explore what cognitive biases are, why they exist, and then choose a few specific ones to talk about in detail such as the...