Psycomedia Network

Psycomedia Episode 22 – A Cat Whose Name Was Mathematics http://archive.org/download/PsycomediaEpisode22-ACatWhoseNameWasMathematics/PsycomediaEpisode22-ACatWhoseNameWasMathematics.mp3 The greatest of all the Channel Islands, Sark: A Piriha, firing two arrows. Or three. The sign at Llanfair PG: A video to help you count like Ben in Welsh:

Psycomedia Episode 21 – A First Class Degree In Homophobia From Oxford http://www.archive.org/download/PsycomediaEpisode21AFirstClassDegreeInHomophobiaFromOxford/PsycomediaEpisode21AFirstClassDegreeInHomophobiaFromOxford.mp3 References. For real. Adams, H. E., Wright, L. W.,Jr, & Lohr, B. A. (1996). Is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal? Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 105(3), 440-445. Barlow, D. H., Sakheim, D. K., & Beck, J. G. (1983). Anxiety increases sexual arousal Journal […]

Psycomedia Episode 20 – Delia’s Perfect Sweat http://www.archive.org/download/PsycomediaEpisode20-DeliasPerfectSweat/PsycomediaEpisode20-DeliasPerfectSweat.mp3 Yes, it’s actually got references this week! Ben is entirely responsible for that! Landis, C. (1924). Studies of emotional reactions. I. ‘A preliminary study of facial expression.” Journal of Experimental Psychology, 7(5), 325  341. doi:10.1037/h0076072 Landis, C. (1924). Studies of emotional reactions. II. general behavior and facial […]

Psycomedia Episode 19 – Pancake Batterer http://www.archive.org/download/PsycomediaEpisode19-PancakeBatterer/PsycomediaEpisode19-PancakeBatterer.mp3 Mass Ferret: Rrröööaaarrr: All the metal bands with umlauts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_umlaut

Psycomedia Episode 18.999999 – Enya Before Zelda Except Before C http://www.archive.org/download/PsycomediaEpisode18.999999-EnyaBeforeZeldaExceptBeforeC/Psycomedia18point9.mp3 Visit our buddy podcasts – If It Moves Critique It (with all apologies for forgetting Charlotte’s name) – http://ifitmovescritiqueit.podomatic.com/ Psychobabble – http://www.psycho-babble.net/ An octobike! More proof that TV has rotted my brain, perhaps: http://www.forvo.com/word/avalanche/ An example of George Shaw’s work at The Herbert: More here – http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=george%20shaw%20scenes%20from%20the%20passion&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=rSc-T5uGLMrC0QW7rMWsDw&biw=1600&bih=775&sei=ryc-T4SIBqmh0QXggaWsDw

Psycomedia Episode 18.XXXX – Australia http://www.archive.org/download/PsycomediaEpisode18.xxxx-Australia/Psycomedia18XAustralia.mp3 This week, Ben is in Australia, so all we do is have a bit of a chat about my slow recovery and his global trotting. Singapore: Brisbane: The full episode featuring one of my favourite contestants on Blockbusters, Suboui (sp?) Mirza.

Psycomedia Demi-Episode 18.5 – The Violent Video Game Awards http://www.archive.org/download/PsycomediaDemi-episode18.5/demiep18.mp3 American Psychological Association Review of General Psychology – Special Issue on Video Games http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/special/5561402.aspx A clip of Penn & Teller’s show Bulls**t which summarises the political side of the issue much better than me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0miGRHuayug

Psycomedia Episode 18 – A Rather Complicated Version of Snow White http://www.archive.org/download/PsycomediaEpisode18-ARatherComplicatedVersionOfSnowWhite_266/PsycomediaEpisode18-ARatherComplicatedVersionOfSnowWhite.mp3 The brand new podcast, Tim and Max Solve All The Problems With Popular Culture, can be found here: http://geeksyndicate.wordpress.com/category/gs-podcast-network/tim-and-max/ Get your own non-Freud contaminated fortune cookie at http://www.myfortunecookie.co.uk/index.php Primes can prove problematic: Banksy’s self-esteem has improved over the course of his career:

Psycomedia Episode 17 – Star Wars and Orphan Urine http://www.archive.org/download/PsycomediaEpisode17-StarWarsAndOrphanUrine/PsycomediaEpisode17-StarWarsAndOrphanUrine.mp3 Darth Cialdini: Grand Master Satele ‘Batson’ Shan: Tim Vine’s Box Song:

Psycomedia Episode 16.5 – The Demipodcast http://www.archive.org/download/PsycomediaEpisode16.5-TheDemipodcast/PsycomediaEpisode16.5-TheDemipodcast.mp3 Half a podcast with half the team: Images grossly offensive to women but helpful if you haven’t seen the adverts: http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m4/jun2011/1/0/lucy-image-3-164591221.jpg http://www.stevenheycock.com/images/work_detail/lynxduffman_10.jpg The text of the story that I read: http://marvintheparanoid.deviantart.com/art/Aslant-Part-I-269006027

Psycomedia Episode 16 – Son of Frankenpodcast http://www.archive.org/download/PsycomediaEpisode16-SonOfFrankenpodcast/PsycomediaEpisode16-SonOfFrankenpodcast.mp3 This is me as the Merry Christmas Revolutionary and Ben as the Merry Christmas Viking, here to wish you a very merry Christmas, with gluttony and/or solemnity and joy dependent on your outlook. My sixth incarnation (the body you see above is the fourth) of The Clinical […]

Psycomedia Episode 15 – Bride of Frankenpodcast http://www.archive.org/download/PsycomediaEpisode15-BrideOfFrankenpodcast_129/PsycomediaEpisode15-BrideOfFrankenpodcast.mp3 This week, we look quite like this: Except we only have a century of loyal fans, not a full set of legions. Also, this sounds more like one of the episodes where John is in a hotel room, in that Ben doesn’t sound fantastic, but… we were […]

Psycomedia Episode 14 – What A Cheery Show We Have Today (!) http://www.archive.org/download/PsycomediaEpisode14-WhatACheeryShowWeHaveToday/PsycomediaEpisode14-WhatACheeryShowWeHaveToday.mp3 Footnote: It’s rude to Omega Point – Teilhard de Chardin proposes that the force of organisation in the universe, which he identifies with Christ Logos, is situated at the end of time, thus the Omega Point. The Omega Point draws all matter […]

Psycomedia Episode 13 – Where Everybody Wants Your Brains http://www.archive.org/download/PsycomediaEpisode13-WhereEverybodyWantsYourBrains/PsycomediaEpisode13-WhereEverybodyWantsYourBrains.mp3 http://www.overthinkingit.com/2011/11/28/otip-episode-178/ My most recent OTI experience! Three quarks = one proton: MRI Railgun videos: Mouse MRIs: TMS and Creativity – the drawings: Ben’s magnificent discovery of a thoughtful YouTube comment: http://www.youtube.com/comment?lc=jAJPDZVobkri0S1FQsU8F31J9cJH0IxY_WHhfYF2Kf8 The Force Trainer at work, with someone roleplaying as thoroughly as Tim tries to on […]

Psycomedia Episode 12 – Some of My Best Bikes are Black http://www.archive.org/download/PsycomediaEpisode12SomeOfMyBestBikesAreBlack/PsycomediaEpisode12SomeOfMyBestBikesAreBlack.mp3 The link to take part in THE FIRST PSYCOMEDIA EXPERIMENT! http://ia700800.us.archive.org/26/items/Psycomedia-ExperimentDownload/IAT-BenOrTim.zip Click it, download it, extract it, run FreeIAT1.3.2.exe, then send AllData.txt to psycomediapodcast@gmail.com An example screenshot (which gives you a sense of the task in general) is below: Last week’s promised podcast […]

Psycomedia Episode 11 – How Mental Imagery Actually Works http://www.archive.org/download/PsycomediaEpisode11-HowMentalImageryActuallyWorks/PsycomediaEpisode11-HowMentalImageryActuallyWorks.mp3 This week, we pitch our sitcom idea How Mental Imagery Actually Works aka HMIAW: We called out Lee and Herring to be the double act with which we have major beef, ignoring the fact they haven’t been a double act for 11 years: Shepard had […]

Psycomedia Episode 10 – Evil Mad Scientists http://www.archive.org/download/PsycomediaEpisode10-EvilMadScientists/PsycomediaEpisode10-EvilMadScientists.mp3 My DCUO hero Confringus: The full Tsien paper for those interested. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2955977/pdf/nihms228506.pdf The best approximation of the correct scene from Eternal Sunshine where such a procedure is applied: http://www.anyclip.com/movies/eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-mind/the-process-is-complete/ A couple of videos of the Kevin Warwick stuff we discuss:

Psycomedia Episode 9 – Classics Part II – Master Professor Timmy S Roth and Smug Benny B aka Meaty Gunshot http://www.archive.org/download/PsycomediaEpisode9-ClassicsPartIi-MasterProfessorTimmySRothAnd/PsycomediaEpisode9-ClassicsPartIi-MasterProfessorTimmySRothAndSmugBennyBAkaMeatyGunshot.mp3 The episode title and our ill-advised attempts to get Gangsta Rap into the DSM-V description of Broca’s Aphasia were built using these: http://www.myrapname.com/ http://www.gizoogle.com/ This is the video of Patient Tono that Ben refers […]

Psycomedia Episode 8 – Classics Part I – The Gage and Sons Tamping Iron Gage Gauge http://www.archive.org/download/PsycomediaEpisode8-ClassicsPartI-TheGageAndSonsTampingIronGage/PsycomediaEpisode8-ClassicsPartI-TheGageAndSonsTampingIronGageGauge.mp3 Pictures of Phineas Gage: He was a dapper gentleman. And that tamping iron is right there at his side. A drawing of the pole through the skull. The later computer images from 2004. The museum exhibit I try […]

Psycomedia Episode 7 – Hurl Theoretical Mud at the Wall http://www.archive.org/download/PsycomediaEpisode7-HurlTheoreticalMudAtTheWall/PsycomediaEpisode7-HurlTheoreticalMudAtTheWall.mp3 Click the above cover to go to Amazon and buy Phantoms in the Brain. (P.S. we get a cut from this). An artist’s impression (or Time Lord photograph) of Minotaurasaurus ramachandrani The sensory homunculus. Scary, eh? You can read the article I discuss in whole for […]