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Recently Aaron Chervenak married his smartphone at the Little Las Vegas Chapel. It may have just been a symbolic gesture for him, but objectum sexuality, people who fall in love with objects, is a real thing.

What are we to make of this strange, mythic creature with vipers for hair and a petrifying gaze? Join Dr. Anton Jessup once more in the University basement for a discussion on this unnatural monster’s connections to natural-world biology.

Out-of-body experiences, or astral trips, are described by those who claim to have experienced them as floating apart from your body, watching yourself from the outside. What brings them on, and are they “real.”

Join Julie and Robert for full-blown dung beetle mania as they explore beetles' intense relationship with animal excrement, their amazing strength and the little jigs they dance atop their prized dung balls.

Pinhead and his fellow Cenobites offer much more than pain to enthusiastic hellraisers. Join Dr. Anton Jessup as he examines the scientific relationship between pleasure, pain and the gulfs of transcendence beyond.

Oarfish make quite an impression when they wash up on the beach, but what's the scoop on these serpentine sea dwellers?

When it comes to optical illusions it’s pretty easy to jailbreak the operating system of your mind and load a new program onto it. Find out why your visual system willingly makes errors in interpretation.

Oarfish make quite an impression when they wash up on the beach, but what's the scoop on these serpentine sea dwellers?

Michael Myers has proven quite the deceptive psycho killer, and it goes far beyond that pale mask he wears. Join Dr. Anton Jessup as he exposes the science of slashers who “play dead” for their victims.

Computer scientists have been working on the creativity problem for a while. Learn more about dreaming of electric sheep in this video from Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

Scientists from India and the UK are collaborating on the largest study of India’s monsoon season and the results could improve the lives of over one billion people.

You probably think you are good at multitasking. Well science would like to have a word with you. Learn more about your poor multitasking performance in this video from Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

Can a beautiful painting or a historically-resonate site really make us faint? Learn more about the physiological effects of art in this video from Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

Are you afraid of clowns? What does your peculiar phobia tell us about your childhood and the culture you grew up in? Learn more about phobias in this video from Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

You’ve probably heard that it takes just three weeks to make or break a habit. That is poppycock. Find out about “habit loops” and what it takes to create a new behavior.

How have tools allows humans to ascend to such dizzying heights of technological achievement, and where will it all take us? Find out in this mind-blowing episode of Stuff From the Future.

Why do we salivate when a fresh bag of potato chips is torn open? Find out how junk food is engineered to addiction perfection and why our brains go gah-gah for it.

Is it true the US nuclear arsenal depends on 50-year-old computers? The US Government Accountability Office released a report about critical systems running on outdated technology.

How does energy use factor into the long-term survival of the human species? Find out in this mind-blowing episode of Stuff From the Future, Part 1 of 2.

In case you ever get stranded in the wild without an obvious source of fresh water, here are a few things you can do to collect some.

In 2013 a meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia with the force of 20 nuclear bombs. The scariest part? We had no idea it was coming. In this episode we look at ways to defend Earth against potentially hazardous objects from space.

NASA will soon be announcing the winners of its X-Hab 2017 Academic Innovation Challenge. From radially accelerated farms to an in-space manufacturing and recycling system, we take a look at this year's design topics.

From a company that wants to feed us to trees, to a method of shattering bodies Terminator-style, to turning us into vinyl records; we examine some of the more interesting and environmentally friendly methods of doing death differently.

Leprosy is a serious health concern in a few populations around the world, but it’s actually very treatable these days, especially if it’s caught early, and it has a low transmission rate. But the true facts about leprosy are still fascinating.

Michael Myers has proven quite the deceptive psycho killer, and it goes far beyond that pale mask he wears. Join Dr. Anton Jessup as he exposes the science of slashers who “play dead” for their victims.