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Incel-ation

EPISODE 136 | Incel-ation
Some say there’s a crisis of masculinity, or maybe it’s just that there’s still a lot of misogyny in our culture. Whatever the causes, one thing is clear – there are some young men out there who have difficulty interacting with women while also buying into the narrative that sex and female attention is somehow their right. And every once in a while, one of these guys goes postal, and violence is the result.
This is the sad and sometimes scary world of incels.
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SECTIONS
02:22 - The 2014 Isla Vista attacks
07:22 - Incels make the front page, #NotAllMen, #YesAllWomen, Minassian
11:06 - Incel started as an online space for everyone, toxic masculinity took it over
16:14 - An Incel lexicon: Alphas, Betas and Omegas; Chads, Stacys, Beckys, PUA hate, Lookism, many types of -cels, rating systems, Chadfishing
28:35 - Bluepill, cucks, redpill, soyboys, gymaxxing, blackpill, pinkpill, JBpill, hERoes, suicidal ideation, fakecels, more -pills
39:34 - Sexual violence, femoids, AWALT, what to call all this, more attacks, pathological interpersonal victimhood, NEET, NoFap builds character, online bragging
50:58 - The media doesn't understand the incel world, can it be "cured"?
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Incels (Involuntary celibates) at the ADL
Incels on ISD Explainers
Our Incel Problem on Vox
Incels: The Worrying Rise of an Online Subculture on Safer Schools
Elliot Rodger’s Online Life Provides a Glimpse at a Hateful Group of “Anti-Pick-up Artists” on Vice
IncelWiki
Incelsite
How ‘Incel’ Got Hijacked on Politico
The woman who founded the 'incel' movement on BBC
What Happens to Men Who Can't Have Sex in Elle
The incel lexicon: Deciphering the emergent cryptolect of a globalmisogynistic community - 2021 paper by Kelly Caroline Gothard 
Incels: A Guide to Symbols and Terminology
Incels: A short guide for those teaching Year 10 and above
'Looksmaxxing': This incel uses a hammer to make his face 'more attractive' | The Secret World of Incels on CBC
Incel hits himself in face with hammer because he thinks it will improve looks
The Psychological Profile of INCELS by William Costello
Responding to the incel ideology on The Safeguarding Network
Yes, the incel community has a sexism problem, but we can do something about it on The Conversation
How do you deradicalise an incel? in Wired
CMV: The most effective way to fight against incel ideology Reddit post
How Do I Stop Being An Incel? on Paging Dr. NerdLove
Conspiracy Beliefs and Violent Extremist Intentions: The Contingent Effects of Self-efficacy, Self-control and Law-related Morality - paper by Bettina Rottweiler and Paul Gill
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On Shakey Ground: More Shakespeare Authorship

EPISODE 135 | On Shakey Ground: More Shakespeare Authorship
Guest: Scott Jackson, Mary Irene Ryan Executive Artistic Director of Shakespeare at the University of Notre Dame, current president of the Shakespeare Theatre Association (STA), stage actor and director 
On the anniversary of Shakespeare's life and death (both), a look at some of the more fringe of fringe theories as to who "really" wrote the plays and sonnets attributed to the "Man from Stratford". 
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SECTIONS
02:56 - A recap of the Oxfordian Theory, the film "Anonymous", the Declaration of Reasonable Doubt, people asking questions
11:48 - The Prince Tudor Theory, Parts 1 & 2, most people don't take any of this seriously
20:32 - Shakespeare was Italian - Crollalanza/Scrollalanza/M. Florio, John Florio
25:22 - S. was Sicilian, most plots existed before, S. was Jewish, paintings as proof, S. was both Italian and Jewish, shades of Shylock, the performance approach; S. was Cervantes, S. had a weak chin, S. was Irish (Patrick O'Toole or  William Nugent), S. was an Arab (Shaikh Zubayr)
37:06 - S. was a woman (Queen Elizabeth, Mary Queen of Scots, Anne Whateley, Anne Hathaway, Mary Sidney Herbert, Emelia Lanier/Aemilia Bassano), the Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Shakespeare CTs are like fan fiction
44:08 - A committed Stratfordian because it was a single hand
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Who Wrote Shakespeare? Shakespeare Authorship 101
Behind the Quill: Debating the Shakespeare Authorship
Greene's Jealousy of Shakespeare 
8 Shakespeare Conspiracy Theories
Top 18 Reasons Why Edward de Vere (Oxford) Was Shakespeare
Debunking the Oxfordian Claims about Shakespearean Authorship
The Declaration of Reasonable Doubt
“Prince Tudor” Theory Began in 1932…
Southampton and the Tudor Rose Theory
Prince Tudor and the Sonnets
All Is True by Mike A’Dair (Prince Tudor 2)
Professor claims Shakespeare was Italian
Was Shakespeare Italian?
John Florio – The Anglified Italian Who Invented William Shakespeare
Was Shakespeare a Believing Jew?
The Secret Jewish History of William Shakespeare
The secret connection between Cervantes and Shakespeare
Shakespeare and Cervantes: Two geniuses and one death date
Shakespeare’s Irish connections
Shakespeare Was An Irishman
Qadhafi: Shakespeare Was an Arab Named Shaykh Zubayr
Was Shakespeare a Woman?
Unmasking Shakespeare
Was Shakespeare Actually This Jewish Woman?
Amelia Bassano: The True Shakespeare? on Snopes
Fact check: No evidence that Aemilia Bassano wrote all of Shakespeare’s plays
In search of Shakespeare's dark lady
How reading Shakespeare could help stop conflict in the Middle East
Finding Shakespeare on the Skeptoid podcast
The Shakespeare Apocalypse
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Behind the History Mysteries

EPISODE 134 | Behind the History Mysteries
Guest: Neil Laird, Emmy-nominated TV producer (Discovery, BBC, PBS, History, National Geographic), author of the Prime Time novel series
TV has so many of these Secrets of..., Mysteries of... shows, you have to wonder how they keep the stories fresh and compelling. Well, wonder no more, as Emmy-nominated producer Neil Laird takes us behind the camera on some of the many shows he's produced to kick off the start of our sixth year.
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02:18 - How he got into the biz, how it works, 
08:37 - You need a hook, the business is dying, In Search of..., don't ignore the woo crowd
19:07 - What on Earth?, structuring the shows, History's Greatest Mysteries, Errol Morris changes documentaries, reenactments in docs, "JFK" uses documentary techniques for fiction, cinéma vérité vs. direct cinema, Blair Witch
26:27 - How can we trust what we see?, the industry is getting democratized but many people lose their jobs, modern hybrid docuseries with fictional techniques in reenactments (Rise of Empires: Ottoman, etc.), after the hook you live or die on the story you tell, no one wants to watch a textbook
32:43 - Blowing Up History (Unearthed) and using computer reconstructions, video games like Assassin's Creed and Mafia as educational tools, get the audience to trust the journey, conspiracy belief is emotional and personal, the audience responds with fact-checking, don't forget Israel on your maps
38:59 - The future of docuseries, streaming needs less content than network, formats are changing, the How to Become a.... trilogy, a specific point of view instead of objective distance, the Prime Time series and Gay Ancient History
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Neil Laird on IMDb
Neil Laird on TikTok
Neil Laird website
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Cult Pop Suicide: Japanese Cults

EPISODE 133 | Cult Pop Suicide: Japanese Cults
Japan is a land of many contradictions - very forward-looking but also retrograde. And when it comes to the spiritual side of things, quite a few people seem to fall for various cults, scammers and charlatans. And just offbeat beliefs, like that Jesus' brother died on the cross while He moved to Aomori Prefecture in northern Honshu, where he married and taught and lived until 106.
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SECTIONS
04:52 - Hey Mister Banjo - The Yamagishi Society
07:28 - Hotaru no Hikari (Light of the Fireflies) -  Mahikari, the World True Light Civilization Religious Organization
10:34 - Nagaragawa Enka (The Enka of the Nagara River) - Life Space Movement, shakty pat and a mummy
15:44 - Katatsumuri Samba (Snail Samba) - Ho No Hana Sanpōgyō, the Flower of Buddhist Teaching; Hogen Fukunaga and Yogesh Gandhi donate money to the DNC, kick off Chinagate
23:54 - Orokamono (Fool) - Pana-Wave Laboratory, electromagnetic waves, Tama-chan the arctic seal, a police standoff and the end of the world
33:50 - Doctor Head's World Tower - Happy Science, EL Cantare, gods from Venus, Komei No Kai sells water, Happy Science gets political, sets records, gets in beefs and embraces MAGA, pioneers "spiritual vaccines"
43:41 - Lunatic Doll: Ansatsu Keikoku (Assassination Warning) - Aum Shinrikyo has a real bad attitude, the sarin gas attacks of March 20, 1995 plus other crimes before and after
54:26 - Japanese police are unprepared for NRMs, online suicide cults, hikikomori
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Expo 2025 website
Apples, boogie and shamisen: A Brief look at Japanese Popular Music during the Allied Occupation
Kazuya Kosaka & the Wagon Masters - Hey Mister Banjo
‘Rokabiri’: The Music That Shook Japan on Japan Nakama
Glow of the Fireflies/Hotaru no hikari song
Japanese Enka Music
Nagaragawa Enka song performed by Junko Ishihara
Katatsumuri Samba song by Onyanko Club
Orokamono song by Masahiko Kondo
The World Tower song by Flipper's Guitar
Black Hole song by Mari Hamada
Keeping the Faith: Christ’s Tomb in Aomori and Japanese Religion on Nippon.com
The Grave of Jesus Christ on Travel Japan
The 5 Scariest Japanese Cults on Japan Daily
10 Bizarre Japanese Cults You’ve Probably Never Heard Of on Listverse
Rise of Japanese cults on BBC
Japanese Society and Religion on the Eve of the 21st Century by MAEKAWA Michiko
Whatever happened to Yamagishi? in Japan Times
The Yamagishi Association: successful, moneyless, leaderless network of communes in Japan and elsewhere on Lowimpact.org
Sukyo Mahikari North America website
World Divine Light website
Japanese Cults–Koji Takahashi and the Life Space Movement on Japan Powered
The Corpse And The Cult in Newsweek
Life Space Movement (Shakty Pay Guru Foundation) Raided in Japan on Center for Studies on New Religions
Life Space guru denies suggesting man leave hospital on Japan Times
A battle over mummified body renews worry about Japan cults on DeseretNews
Ho No Hana Sanpogyo on Apologetics Index
1996 United States campaign finance controversy on Wikipedia
New Religious Movement Raided in Japan: Ho No Hana on CESNUR
Honohana foot-cult guru gets 12 years for fraud on Japan Times
Pana Wave Laboratory on World Religions and Spirituality Project
Doomsday cult makes waves in Japan in The Guardian
Probing Pana Wave's nature
The Latest Japanese Cult Panic in Religion in the News
Pana Wave at the Cult Education Institute
A nation's fate is sealed - Guardian article on Tama-chan
Foreigners seek same rights as seal on Japan Times
Pana Wave: Doomsday and Tama-chan the Seal video
Pana Wave pictures
Happy Science website
Japan’s infamous ‘happy’ cult sets sights on the United States
The Happy Science Religious Movement Claims to Hold the Cure for COVID-19
A Japanese Cult That Believes Its Leader Is an Alien From Venus Is Speaking at CPAC
How a fringe religious movement in Japan built a pro-Trump social media empire
Happy Science Is the Laziest Cult Ever on Vice
Why is Japan the ideal country according to the Alt-Right movement
Japan's rising right-wing nationalism video
Consideration of the Status of Conspiracy Theories in Japan Based on Attempts at Regime Destruction Overseas in International Information Network Analysis
QAnon Is Alive and Well in Japan
Aum Shinrikyo: The Japanese cult behind the Tokyo Sarin attack on BBC
Chronology of Aum Shinrikyo's CBW Activities paper
Aum Shinrikyo report at the Ministry of Justice
Revisiting Aum Shinrikyo: New Insights into the Most Extensive Non-State Biological Weapons Program to Date
Aleph official website (in Japanese)
Aum Sect/Shoko Asahara on Cult Education Institute
Religion-Making in Japan’s Courts of Law
Conspiracy Theories and Their Believers in Contemporary Japan
New Religions in Japan
Yearning for spiritual leadership, Japan has spawned a rash of apocalyptic religions and ominously popular sects at the Cult Education Institute
Japanese New Religious Movements: An Introduction by Franz Weiner in the Handbook of East Asian New Religious Movement
Japan’s chilling Internet suicide pacts
Japan suicide websites targeted after 'house of horrors'
Hikikomori, A Japanese Culture-Bound Syndrome of Social Withdrawal? A Proposal for DSM-V
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Keel Hauled: UAP Update

EPISODE 132 | Keel Hauled: UAP Update
Recent revelations, reports, videos and hearings have been leading up to what many UAP folks call Disclosure. Some interesting things have come out, and a whole lot of nonsense as well. 
Spoiler: UFOs are real. Apart from that single fact, no one really has any hard evidence for anything else. So, they speculate. 
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03:00 - Bullet Train to Iowa - AATIP, UFO into UAP into UAP, Luis Elizondo, Harry Reid, Robert Bigelow, Christopher Mellon leaks a video in 2017, the DoD confirmed, more videos (Gimbal, Go Fast, FLIR1), the UAP Task Force, triangles, spheres, acorns and metallic blimps
07:28 - UAPTF Report (June 2021), more data needed, AOIMSG, HISCCC hearing (May 2022), more data needed, AARO, NDAs for whistleblowers negated, Disclosure is being slow-walked, more video footage
11:52 - Grey Area - Project Blue Book, Evangelicals, Kenneth Arnold, flying saucers, Roswell & Project Mogul, UFOs as cover story, scammers
15:36 - A Singularity - The UFO ecosystem - Brad Steiger's The Reality Game, 18 theories about UFOs (including the Magic Theatre,  the Overlord Theory, John Keel's Ultraterrestrials)
19:31 - The "Extraterrestrial Almanac", Tim Burchett has a press conference, everyone has a theory
22:33 - Bread and Circus - Congressional hearing (July 2023), David Fravor and Ryan Graves, David Grusch makes some amazing claims but offers no evidence, Grusch jumps on board with the interdimensional crowd, Grusch had had some troubles in the past, NASA creates the Director of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Research (Sept. 2023), hardcore Christians think it's all demons, true believers on both sides
29:55 - The Underwhelming - The Disclosure Project, Dr. Steven Greer, ARVs & the Wilson Memo, To the Stars Academy becomes To the Stars, Inc., Skinwalkers at the Pentagon, Jay Stratton has a book deal thanks to Dan Farah, Luis Elizondo writes Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFO which has more than a few problems (remote viewing, nosy orbs), the Collins Elite & Legacy Program
38:14 - Personal Prometheus - AARO's report (March 2024), NASA's report (April 2024) - more data needed and stop bothering witnesses, Congressional hearing in November 2024 with Lue Elizondo, Dr. Tim Gallaudet, Michael Gold - more videos, people being threatened, an international arms race to back-engineer UAP tech, some tech in the hands of private companies
42:18 - Michael Shellenberger talks about SAPs, USAPs, TUOs and NHIs; Immaculate Constellation (formed in 2017) describes all sorts of UAPs (like boomerangs, triangles, and irregular/organic), Blue Force technology, verbal dancing
48:03 - Apocalyptical - Lauren Boebert is an idiot, UAP fans were not happy with Disclosure's progress, Grusch had a lot more to say, aliens are really evil transdimensional entities, Greer says they eat human souls while we sleep and also cries a lot
51:15 - Is it all disinfo? Are they all nuts? Are "they" really demons? Wild notions of what "full disclosure" will finally reveal (a real Conspiracy Theory of Everything [CTOE]), it's a vast spiritual war among creatures made of conscious energy
54:43 - Theorem - What we really know:- UAPs (and USOs) are real, some Evangelicals hate all this talk because they really do think they are demons and try to keep it all quiet; other ideas, less and less likely; the New York Post's video "Spooky Hustlers", those first three videos started it all but Brian Dunning examines them in "The UFO Movie They Don't Want You to See"
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
EPISODE 31 | Scammers, Inc.: MJ-12, Bennewitz & Serpo
EPISODE 29 | The Notorious M.I.B.
EPISODE 32 | A View to Vril (Valiant Thor bit around 21:29) 
EPISODE 99 | A Bridge Too Far: The Mothman Visits Point Pleasant
EPISODE 23 | Signs, Grudges & Blue Books: Early UFOlogy
EPISODE 35 | A Field Guide to Aliens
EPISODE 74 | Red Alert: UFOs as Threat!
EPISODE 94 | Peek-A-Boo: Project Star Gate
EPISODE 17 | Project Blue Beam: Abandon Hope All Ye Who Research Here
Timeline of Major UFO/UAP Events at New Space Economy
UAP articles and videos on UAP on The Black Vault (147 pages!)
FOIA documents about AATIP
'AATIP' explored: A brief look inside the government's top-secret UFO program on SYFY
Watch the Pentagon's three declassified UFO videos taken by U.S. Navy pilots
Establishment of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force at the DoD
UAP Task Force documents
UAP Task Force report
A PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS OF THE UAPTF’s PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT ON UFOs By Adrian G. Rudnyk
DoD Announces the Establishment of the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG)
AOIMSG briefing card
More AOIMSG documents
AARO website with many links
The Pentagon got hundreds of new reports of UFOs in 2022, a government report says on NPR
The Roswell Report: Case Closed from US Air Force HQ, published in 1994
Report on Project Mogul: Synopsis of Balloon Research Findings
Other worlds, other universes: Playing the reality game by Brad Steiger
Brad Steiger's 17 Theories Of The UFO Enigma
Extraterrestrial Almanac video
Senators aim to set a mandatory timeline and process for agencies to declassify all UAP records
UFO Disclosure: The Most Significant Law in Human History?
UAP Disclosure Act of 2023
Is US on the Verge of 'Catastrophic' UFO Leak? What We Know in Newsweek
Why the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Disclosure Act of 2023 Falls Far Short of Its Intended Purpose — And What That Means for Transparency
Records Related to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) at the National Archives
UNIDENTIFIED ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA: IMPLICATIONS ON NATIONAL SECURITY, PUBLIC SAFETY, AND GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY report on 2023 Congressional hearing 
U.S. recovered non-human 'biologics' from UFO crash sites, former intel official says
Here are the 5 most memorable moments from Congress’ UFO hearing
The UFO Whistleblower’s Extraordinary Congressional Hearing
We are not alone: The UFO whistleblower speaks
UFO whistleblower David Grusch says his health records were leaked
UFO whistleblower David Grusch interview: What’s happened since?
Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations - video of MUFON documentary
NASA appoints new head of UFO research on Space.com
UPDATE: NASA Shares UAP Independent Study Report; Names Director
Eric Davis meeting with Adm. Wilson (the "Wilson Memo")
Dr. Steven Greer website
Executive Summary of the Disclosure Project Briefing Document by Greer
To the Stars (the new website)
To the Stars description (after rebranding)
Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insiders' Account of the Secret Government UFO Program on Amazon
George Knapp statement to Congress
Another UFO Boss to Break Silence in Major Book Deal: “The Process of Disclosure Has Begun”
Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFO by Luis Elizondo 
Review of Imminent at The Sentinel
Summary of themes in Immanent on SuperSummary
Summaries of chapters 6-10 from Imminent
AARO 2024 report
NASA UAP Independent Study Team Report from 2024
NASA UAP webpage
Congress is revisiting UFOs: Here's what's happened since last hearing on extraterrestrials
Burchett press conference
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth on November 23, 2024 UAP hearing
FULL HEARING: US Congress discusses "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena" video
Documents about Immaculate Constellation entered into the Congressional record
CD307: Immaculate Constellation at Congressional Dish (plus other links)
Congress heard more testimony about UFOs: Here are the biggest revelations
Alien Technology Is Driving a ‘Multidecade, Secretive Arms Race,’ Former Pentagon Official Claims in Popular Mechanics
What is the Cryptoterrestrial Hypothesis?
ULTRATERRESTRIAL MODELS by H. E. Puthoff, Ph.D. in Journal of Cosmology, Vol. 29, No. 1
Unraveling the Mysteries of the Superspectrum: A Look at John Keel's Vision of Ultraterrestrials
A comprehensive UAP theory of everything from @TomMontalk
Disclosure Warriors Uncover a Vast UFO Coverup Conspiracy: Guerrilla Skeptics on Wikipedia!
Spooky Hustlers: How wacky UFO activists and "crazy" ghost hunters duped Congress into hunting UFOs - video from the New York Post (long but worthwhile)
Brian Dunning's The UFO Movie They Don't Want You to See webpage
The UFO Movie THEY Don't Want You to See - Full Movie on YouTube (analysis on those first 3 UAP videos starts around 54 minutes in)
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Hotlantis: The Lost Continent

EPISODE 131 | Hotlantis: The Lost Continent
We all love mysteries, and Atlantis is one of the biggest ones. Was it a real place or just an allegory? If real, then where was it? Many people have spent a lot of time and money trying to discover the answer to that question. 
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02:22 - Let the Mermaids Flirt with Me - Plato's Timaeus and Critias describe Atlantis, Utopia, probably just an allegory, Tertullian's "On Baptism", Elysium, Plato references Solon
08:44 - When the Levee Breaks - Atlantias by Hellanicus of Lesbos, the disaster at Helike, Altantipedia
14:00 - Mediterranean Sundance - Crantor believed it, the Pillars of Hercules, in the Mediterranean: Santorini (Thira), the Minoans, Robert Graves thought it was Pharos, Robert L. Scranton liked Lake Copais, other Med locales
21:08 - Atlantic - Ignatius Donnelly and Pierre-Marie Termier chose the Azores, hyperdiffusionism, Otto Muck thought about the Mid-Atlantic Range and the Carolina Bays, Bory de Saint-Vincent liked the Canary Islands (and pillow lava), Jorge Maria Ribero-Meneses considered the Cachucho Plateau, some liked the Spartel Bank, Paul Dunbavin liked the the Irish Sea, Stel Pavlou changes the timeline, the Richart Structure in Mauritania
28:48 - Abraham Ortelius drew a map, Athanasius Kircher expanded that work and thought Atlantis connected North America with Africa
31:02 - New World - Edgar Cayce's visions pointed to Bimini, the Bimini Road, the Blake Plateau, the Sargasso Sea, J.M. Allen thinks of the Incans and Bolivia, mythological places, Antarctica 
36:40 - Underwater Love - Olaus Rudbeck preferred Sweden, Jürgen Spanuth like Northern Europe, Helena Blavatsky's Theosophy and root races, Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels and Guido von List create Ariosophy ("the wisdom of the Aryans"), the Nazis took that ball and ran with it
41:33 - Palace of the Brine - CTs like ancient aliens, the Vatican, the Illuminati; Tony O’Connell of Atlantapedia's central Mediterranean theory, my own take on it all
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Atlantipedia website
Timaeus By Plato
Critias By Plato
Finding Atlantis in the depths of Plato
On Baptism by Tertullian
Atlantis isn’t real, but here are all the places it could have been in Popular Science
Atlantis on History.com
Atlantis at National Geographic 
Atlantis - An Investigation on Storymaps
Top 10 Amazing Facts About the Lost City of Atlantis
The ‘truth’ behind Atlantis – Christopher Gill on Plato’s Atlantis Story
Where is the Lost City of Atlantis — and Does it Even Exist? in Discover
Is Atlantis Real? The Truth Behind the Atlantis Myth
Was there a real Atlantis? on How Stuff Works
Plato’s Atlantis Before Plato on Beachcombing's BIzarre HIstory Blog
WHO ELSE WROTE ABOUT ATLANTIS?
Findings on Santorini Point to “Lost Island of Atlantis” Origins
How the Ancient Greek City of Helike Was Destroyed and Rediscovered
Wrath of a God or Nature: The Demise of Helike
What Are the Pillars of Hercules Mentioned in Greek Mythology?
The Pillars of Heracles at the Plato Project
How the Discovery of ‘Atlantis’ Made Big News Then Faded Away
The Mysteries of Lake Copais and the Island Fortress of Gla
The Sunken City That Might Be Atlantis
Atlantis Location Hypothesis
10 mysterious locations to find the lost city of Atlantis
WHERE IS ATLANTIS?: PILLARS OF HERACLES, A SEA OF MUD AND MONSTERS IN THE DEEP
Atlantis, Lake Tritonis, and Pharos
Ignatius L. Donnelly in the Scholarly Community Encyclopedia 
Master of Disaster, Ignatius Donnelly in the Public Domain Review
Are the Misty Peaks of the Azores Remnants of the Legendary Atlantis?
The Canary Islands And The Atlantis Legend
Pillow basalt more than a kilometer above sea level
Lost city of Atlantis believed found off Spain
The Mystery of Carolina Bays
Location hypotheses of Atlantis
Hunting Atlantis TV show
“Be Vewy Quiet. I’m Hunting Atlantis.”
What Exactly Is the Eye of the Sahara, aka the Richat Structure?
Ancient Saharan Origins of East African Bantus: The Land of Atlantis and Egypt
Atlantis on the Green Sahara
The Infamous Map of Atlantis on Cryptid Campfire
How the imaginary island of Atlantis was mapped on Vox
Bimini Road/The Lost City of Atlantis
Why Some People Think Bimini Road Is A Lost Highway To Atlantis on All That's Interesting
Ep. 128 | Estimated Prophets: Nostradamus & Cayce
The Island of Atlantis Discovered
The Blake Plateau: A Southern Treasure
Deep Sea Corals: The depths of the Blake Plateau
Ep. 103 | Down in Bermuda, It’s Easy to Believe: The Devil’s Triangle
The Sargasso Sea: why this ‘golden floating rainforest’ urgently needs protecting at Greenpeace
Mysteries of the Sargasso Sea
Atlantis: The Andes Solution : The Discovery of South America As the Legendary Continent of Atlantis by John Blashford-Snell
Exploring Atlantis and Lemuria
Is Atlantis in Antarctica
Atlantis on the H. P. Lovecraft Wiki
Swedish Visions of Atlantis – Olof Rudbeck the Elder’s Atlantica
Atlantis Then and Now on the Theosophical Society website
Eight unbelievable theories about Atlantis - that people actually believed!
Atlantis Conspiracy website
Lost city of Atlantis rises again to fuel a dangerous myth in The Guardian
Atlantis: The Lost Continent Finally Found by Arysio Santos 
Joining The Dots: Plato's Atlantis in the Central Mediterranean by Tony O'Connell 
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Lost Cities of the New World

EPISODE 130 | Lost Cities of the New World
Guest: Neil Laird, Emmy-nominated TV producer (Discovery, BBC, PBS, History, National Geographic), author of the Prime Time novel series
What's commonly called the "New World" is actually very old, and for a long time, people have been trying to track down supposedly lost locations in the Americas. While these folks have not succeeded, advances in technology are allowing us to make astonishing discoveries that are rewriting the history of human habitation in the Western Hemisphere. 
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03:07 - The Lost City of Z - Percy Harrison Fawcett finds Manuscript 512 and goes looking in the Amazon, the search for Fawcett gets LIDAR, new discoveries are made about old New World urban planning
25:18 - The City of the Lost Monkey God - LIDAR again to the rescue, the jungle is difficult to navigate, rebranded as City of the Jaguar
31:48 - El Dorado and the Fountain of Youth - Everyone wants gold, and who doesn't want to live forever?, these locations are cyphers, Mysteries of...., Shark Week, the Prime Time novels
Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO
Neil Laird on IMDb
Prime Time Travelers: A Satirical MM Adventure by Neil Laird
Prime Time Pompeii by Neil Laird
Lost Trails, Lost Cities by Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett
Manuscript 512: 18th century evidence of a lost civilization in Brazil? by Jason Colavito
Manuscript 512 text
Percy Fawcett and the Lost City on History Today
The Enduring Mystery Behind Percy Fawcett’s Disappearance on History.com
Lost Cities of the Amazon Discovered From the Air in Smithsonian
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
The Lost City of Z movie
Indiana Jones and the Seven Veils by Rob Macgregor
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story by Douglas Preston
Exclusive: Lost City Discovered in the Honduran Rain Forest in National Geographic
La Ciudad Blanca: The White City of Honduras
Lure of the Lost City in National Geographic
The Lost City That’s Not Lost, Not a City, and Doesn’t Need to Be Discovered
El Dorado: Real history behind the legend on LiveScience
El Dorado on National Geographic
Khwaja Khadir and the Fountain of Life in the Tradition of Persian and Mughal Art
Florida's Fountain of Youth on The Progress Report
Fountain of Youth in Florida website
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The Fermi Paradox: Here Comes Nobody

EPISODE 129 | The Fermi Paradox: Here Comes Nobody
If we are not unique as a species, an intelligent one that builds civilizations, then there must be lots and lots of other civilizations out there in the galaxy and the rest of the universe beyond. But if so, where the hell is everybody?
That’s the question at the heart of the Fermi Paradox. And this has kicked off a chain of reasoning and speculation that crosses disciplinary boundaries, and lets us start to envision, not just what might be out there, but where we ourselves want to go as a global civilization.
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02:54 - First we feel, then we fall - The Fermi Paradox, the Drake Equation, the Wow! Signal, space is big
09:22 - End here. Us then. Finn, again! - Abiogenesis, the Pulse-Transient Theory of Industrial Civilization, musings on the galactic situation
18:48 - They lived and laughed and loved and left - The Great Filter, Von Neumann probes, the Berserker Hypothesis; loud, quiet and grabby aliens; the Dark Forest Hypothesis, the technological singularity, the Jevons Paradox and induced demand
27:16 - The cross of your own cruelfiction - The Zoo Hypothesis, the Planetarium Hypothesis, the Deathworld Scenario, A Field Guide to Aliens, Calculating God and other science fiction, the Aestivation Hypothesis 
34:34 - Three quarks for Muster Mark! - The Kardashev Scale, Sagan's addition, megastructures, Barrow's anti-Kardashev scale, Galántai's variation, the Urbanization Hypothesis, Kardashev's six scenarios, what to look for
43:04 - He is cured by faith who is sick of fate - They're here, Greer and UAP folks, MJ-12, the SETI Paradox, we are looking, light is fast but has a limit
47:38 - Let us leave theories there and return to here's hear - Joseph Campbell and where do we go from here?
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Finnegans Wake glosses
A skeleton key to Finnegans Wake by Joseph Campbell
‘It never ends’: the book club that spent 28 years reading Finnegans Wake in The Guardian
Finnegan’s Wake at 80: In Defense of the Difficult at LitHub
Why Finnegans Wake Is Better than Ulysses
Fermi’s Paradox on This American Life
SETI Institute website
Humanity Responds to 'Alien' Wow Signal, 35 Years Later
This Is How We Know There Are Two Trillion Galaxies In The Universe in Forbes
The Great Filter: a possible solution to the Fermi Paradox in Astronomy
A list of solutions to the Fermi Paradox on It's only chemo
Are We Alone in the Universe? Article looking at the Drake Equation
How Many Aliens Are There? A look at the Drake Equation
Drake Equation: Estimating the Odds of Finding E.T. on Space.com
Template for calculating answers to the Drake Equation on PBS
The Olduvai Theory: Toward a Re-Equalizing of the World Standard of Living
The Berserker Hypothesis: The Darkest Explanation Of The Fermi Paradox
Grabby Aliens website
Dark Forest theory: A terrifying explanation of why we haven’t heard from aliens yet
The Dark Forest Hypothesis is Absurd
'Zoo hypothesis' may explain why we haven't seen any space aliens
Where Is Everyone? 4 Possible Explanations for the Fermi Paradox at Singularity Hub
The Kardashev scale: Classifying alien civilizations on Space.com
Kardashev Scale: What is it and where is Earth listed? on BBC Science Focus
Forecasting the progression of human civilization on the Kardashev Scale through 2060 with a machine learning approach reports in Scientific Reports
SETI: Musings on the Barrow Scale
A non-anthropocentric solution to the Fermi paradox in the International Journal of Astrobiology
Asymptotic burnout and homeostatic awakening: a possible solution to the Fermi paradox? in the Journal of the Royal Society
Planetary scientists suggest a solution to the Fermi paradox: Superlinear scaling leading to a singularity on Phys.org
The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era by Vernor Vinge
Novels with a focus on the Fermi Paradox / Great Filter? in r/printSF
Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” XVII: What is the “SETI-Paradox” Hypothesis?
SETI urged to fess up over alien signals
Steven Greer's website
 
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Estimated Prophets: Nostradamus & Cayce

EPISODE 128 | Estimated Prophets: Nostradamus & Cayce
Even though almost none of the things that prophets say will happen actually do, we still persist in believing in the capability anyway. We do not like to change out minds very much. Two of the biggest prophets that still hold sway today over Western culture are Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce, and we’ll take a look at each one in turn.
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02:35 - Built to Last - Nostradamus' career and style, Virgilianised syntax, Les Prophéties and the Mirabilis Liber 
06:53 - Aoxomoxoa - Into the 20th century, Erika Cheetham, "The Man Who Saw Tomorrow", some prophecies 
12:48 - Blues for Allah - The King of Terror wears a blue turban, more prophecies, modern rehashings and interpretations, Over Sixty's Travel Trouble section for 2025
22:13 - Shakedown Street - Nostrafakers, Mabus the 3rd Antichrist, Ray Mabus, Dennis "prophetofrevenge" Markuze, John "rogue scholar" Hogue
28:38 - Ship of Fools - Nostrascams, Gangnam Style, Rudolf Hess uses Nostradamus
32:08 - American Beauty - Edgar Cayce gets his voice back, starts a lucrative career as the Sleeping Prophet and has weird food ideas
36:01 - In the Dark - Cayce sells pseudomedical "cures", then loses it in 1932, makes lots of predictions and travels around in time, the "root race" and polygenesis, Atlantis and more
42:14 - Wake of the Flood - Cayce's Earth Changes, Lori Toye's I Am America maps, Gordon-Michael Scallion's prophetic doomsday maps, billionaires start buying land
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More Info
EPSIODE 53 | Time to Get Ill - DST, Y2K & 2012
Episode 08 | Time Cube - Four Is the Loneliest Number
Entry for Nostradamus on the Museum of Hoaxes website
A translation of Nostradamus prophecies
More translations of the prophecies 
Nostradamus’s Cherry Jelly recipe on Tasting History
Nostradamus Predicted 9/11 on the Museum of Hoaxes
Crystalinks prophecies page
Nostradamus' 2025 predictions revealed on OverSixty
Dennis Markuze - The Prophecies of Nostradamus 
HogueProphecy website
An Idiot's Biography - John Hogue
Edgar Cayce on Crystalinks
Edgar Cayce’s life & readings page on his official website
Edgar Cayce: The Would-Be Sleeping Prophet
Earth Star magazine
Arizona Corporation Commission Finds Payson Couple Defrauded Elderly Investor
The Shocking Doomsday Maps Of The World And The Billionaire Escape Plans in Forbes
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Cognitive Biases: Thanks, Big Brain! (BR 12)

EPISODE 127 | Cognitive Biases: Thanks, Big Brain! (Because Reasons 12)
This episode looks at the final two categories of biases in the Cognitive Biases Codex – what we tend to do when the information we’re presented with doesn’t contain enough meaning, and the brain’s tendency to favor quick assessments over complete ones, because it feels it need to act quickly.
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COMPLICATED SHADOWS- Confabulation, apophenia, illusory correlation, the clustering illusion, the illusion of validity and WYSIWTI, the anecdotal fallacy, inductive reasoning, the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy, the recency illusion, the gambler's fallacy and hot hand fallacy
Stereotyping, group attribution error, outgroup homogeneity, the  moral credential effect, authority bias, functional fixedness, the Just-World Hypothesis, the bandwagon effect, argument from fallacy (bad apple bias, fallacy fallacy), the placebo and nocebo effects
The cross-race effect, the Halo and Horns Effect, the positivity effect, reactive devaluation, the cheerleader effect, the not invented here bias, the well-traveled road effect
Mental accounting, Miller's Law (magic number 7 +/- 2), appeal to probability, survival bias, the subadditivity effect, the zero sum bias
The illusion of transparency, the curse of knowledge, the illusions of asymmetric insight and of external agency
Self-consistency bias, hindsight bias, moral luck, outcome bias, restraint bias, pro-innovation bias, declinism, pessimism bias, the planning fallacy, backward and forward telescoping
ALARM CALL - Belief bias and syllogisms, Occam's Razor, the less-is-better effect, the Delmore effect, the conjunction fallacy (the Linda Problem), information bias, ambiguity bias, the Easton-Rosen Phenomenon (rhyme-as-reason effect)
Status quo bias and ante, system justification, the decoy effect (asymmetric dominance effect), reverse psychology, social comparison bias, reactance
The backfire effect, the sunk cost fallacy, the pseudocertainty effect, zero-risk bias, loss aversion, unit bias, irrational escalation (escalation of commitment), the endowment effect (divestiture aversion) and the IKEA effect, the generation effect
The identifiable victim effect, hyperbolic discounting, Argumentum ad Novitatem (appeal to novelty)
Effort justification, the defensive attribution hypothesis, trait ascription bias, the illusion of control, the optimism effect, risk compensation and the Peltzman effect, the egocentric bias (Illusory Superiority, the Lake Woebegone effect), the self-serving bias, the overconfidence effect, the Dunning-Kruger effect, the hard-easy effect, the false consensus effect, social desirability bias, the fundamental attribution error and the Actor-Observer bias
Music by Fanette Ronjat
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PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it’s a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it’s going. It’s Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER