Six Degrees of Rumination

Technology! It’s great, it’s awe-inspiring; how do we live without it?

Well, some things might be able to live better if it wasn’t around. On the other hand, it does do wonderful things for some aspe…

We've done several episodes about humans improving life with technology, sometimes to the point of bordering on a bionic existence!  Here are four articles that will have you marveling at humans' con…

Episode 92 is all about the silly things humans do—except the Oxford comma. That’s serious, important, and irreplaceable.

Grant for Hookers for Jesus

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Six Degrees rings in the New Year just as you’d expect – with a wide selection of science articles ranging from zany to outright f*cked up!   We discuss everything from the age you discover the meani…

Celebrate this holiday Six Degrees of Rumination style!  Episode 90 is full of Christmas cheer - and a little Christmas caution.  Sure, the holidays are awesome and most people love them, but if you'…

We're almost at Episode 90!  We really wanted to get there, so we thought we'd make Episode 89 short.  Except for the part where producer Mike talks about Terminator for twenty minutes...

After that,…

The world is a strange place, as we’ve learned on this podcast again and again.  Enjoy this collection of the weird, the hilarious, and the terrible.  Life’s just a bowl of cherries...or, sometimes, …

Last episode we brought you tales of humanity...now we bring you tails of animals.  Oh yes we did!

Animals are just as crazy as humans, if not more.  Although, since we're the ones studying them, can…

Six Degrees presents you with episode 86 - tales of humanity.  Oh, how crazy we are.

A cop can't pull you over for flipping them off

Phasing out gas powered leaf blowers in DC

A material that c…

Have you ever wondered why animals act or look the way they do? What about those really rare strange type of animals you never knew existed—and now that you know, you’re terrified!? Well, Six Degrees…

It's 1984!  Yes, that's right, you are about to experience the Six Degrees episode bearing that name, BUT ALSO, looking at scientific trends these days, we are apparently living in the horrifying soc…

Enjoy our last episode of the year!

Six Degrees wraps up the year with random articles that are somehow crazier and more fantastical than all the articles of 2018 combined.  China makes plans to laun…

Much to Reno’s dismay, it’s the Holiday Season!  Take a listen as Host Reno Gorman lists all the reasons why he doesn’t like Christmas while Host Nina Boyd and their Producer Mike tell him he’s wrong…

In episode 81 (the second installment of a two part episode) Six Degrees covers the "nurture" side of "nature vs. nurture."  This installment is the darker of the two--well, except for the cannibalis…

Six Degrees had so many good articles this time around, we decided to record TWO episodes at once!  This first of the two has a more positive bent, and is the "nature" side of "nature vs. nurture" if…

Six Degrees welcomes Reno's brother on their 79th episode!  Chris is like Reno but with less Reno and more Chris.

This episode is a collection of articles demonstrating how amazing - and how terrifyi…

Join Six Degrees for producer Mike's longest episode, in which he is so angry his co-hosts started late that he cuts them off even before their first segue...

The world doesn't disappoint in its stra…

Episode 77 is full of bears, bees, (no birds though), legal and illegal drugs, and what's next for human improvement on a bionic level.  Also discussed is the case of a dead man who couldn't prove he…

Six Degrees maintains our streak of doing an episode once every time we all meet up with microphones!  This one is all about those odd cases in science, from animals' unusual coping mechanisms to how…

For their 75th episode, Six Degrees is joined by guest Sean Keehan, and celebrates with a plethora of topics, including the alarming number of body parts in the Pacific Ocean, a gene that almost elim…