EPISODE · Sep 19, 2021 · 58 MIN
Episode 8: Futurama
from Screens of the Stone Age · host Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett
We watched it; we can’t unwatch it! In this episode we review four episodes of Futurama, an animated series about a pizza delivery boy who accidentally gets cryogenically frozen and wakes up in the year 3000. What does the future have to do with the stone age? There’s only one way to find out! So grab a can of Slurm and a bowl of Bachelor chow and settle in for this Anthology of Interest! In this episode: Greyfriar’s Bobby: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyfriars_Bobby Repatriation of the Kabwe skull: https://www.sapiens.org/biology/repatriation-kabwe-skull/ Comedian James Acaster on the absurdity of the British Empire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x73PkUvArJY The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot: https://goodreads.com/book/show/6493208-the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks The Piltdown Hoax: https://www.livescience.com/56327-piltdown-man-hoax.html How to pronounce “Neanderthal”: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/is-it-neander-tal-or-neander-thal Frozen Fauna of the Mammoth Steppe by Dale Guthrie: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo3774765.html
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