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Reads… The Teenage Brain

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Reads... The Teenage Brain
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Subtitles are usually dramatic attempts to entice the reader to want to learn more. “A Neuroscientist’s Survival guide to raising adolescents and young adults” does just that for Mike and me.  It may have been a decade or two for me and perhaps just last week for Mike, but we know our way around the adolescent […]

Reads… The Martian (Part Two)

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Reads... The Martian (Part Two)
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  Coming in hot this week (much like Mike’s clip-riddled audio) is the second and final part of the idiots’ discussion of The Martian, by Andy Weir. I’ll cool down a little bit on the extended metaphor presented last episode, but we’ll see how that pans out. Recording difficulties aside, this podcast covers the climactic […]

Reads… The Martian (Part One)

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Reads... The Martian (Part One)
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The BookClub is back with a brand new edition! (Thanks VI for the inspiration.)  This time we are reading The Martian, by Andy Weir. And weir does this lead us?  Well, to a not-so-desolate land of discussion. So far, the crew seems to have enjoyed this mission better than our last one.   It is […]

Reads… Ready Player One (Levels Two and Three)

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Reads... Ready Player One (Levels Two and Three)
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Kurt, Mike, and I got together the other night to finish up our discussion on Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One. There was still a minor debate on where the middle of the book was, but we powered through and got the podcast done. We debate, poke holes in the plot, and determine how a Delorean […]

Reads… Ready Player One (Level One)

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Reads... Ready Player One (Level One)
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In an attempt to try something different, we decided to do a good old fashioned book club.  For this episode we brought in the big guns: Kurt “it don’t hurt” Miller.  Mike, Kurt, and I read Ernest Clive’s Ready Player One and discussed any and all topics that came to mind after reading the novel’s first […]