Prime Matter Podcast

Artist's Date at the Puppy Farm

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 15:40:33 GMT

Ever get the urge to write 50,000 words in one month? Through phenomena like The Artist's Way and NaNoWrimo, Rebekah and Laurel talk about the oxymoron of practical creativity, and the ways in which it inspires and fails us.

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Jazz Riffs in an fMRI

Tue, 25 Jun 2024 03:37:13 GMT

This week we talk creativity. From jazz musicians in brain scanners, to opium-induced poetry to epic sci-fi space operas. Are some people intrinsically more creative? Can creativity be taught or honed?

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Plastic Surgery, Poetry and Personhood

Tue, 28 May 2024 00:28:18 GMT

From makeup to masquerade balls to medical settings, we are constantly covering up. Are we ever really ourselves? Or does the mask we wear define us?

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Black Holes and Revelations

Mon, 20 May 2024 20:45:05 GMT

This week, we talk sensory deprivation tanks and existentialist philosophy. What is the void? Do we live inside of it? Or does it live inside of us?

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Dance Party of Two

Mon, 20 May 2024 20:40:44 GMT

In this introductory teaser episode we delve into the bold beginnings of Prime Matter. Who are Laurel and Rebekah, why did they stop eating sugar, and what possessed them to start a podcast anyways? In this mini-sode we outline our fears, dreams, and plans for this series in which we explore questions that matter at the intersection of physics, metaphysics, and medicine.

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