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Ad Noctem Podcast
by Ad Noctem Media
Discussing the things which keep us awake at night, or the stories which help lull us to sleep. The Ad Noctem Podcast is dedicated to the strange, fantastic and innovative. Of particular interest are those things which blur the lines between reality, fantasy, and science fiction. Topics discussed may be fiction, non fiction, or in the grey area between.
Episodes
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Sealand - Freedom, Fraud, and Founding a Nation
The Principality of Sealand - an old military tower off the coast of England which has stood for decades since World War II. On its own, it would likely attract little attention from anybody other than dedicated history buffs. Yet, the tower has gained quite the reputation and following over the...
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Killware - the Growing Digital Threat
"Killware" - the name for a new breed of cyber attacks aimed not just at computer systems, but particularly those whose disruption could cause harm to people who depend on them. Ransomware is already a pressing security issue, and now some cyber security experts are warning the situation could be...
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Drones Making Rain in Dubai - Cloud Seeding and Weather Manipulation
Cloud seeding is a form of weather manipulation to encourage cloud formation and increase rainfall in a given area. Although cloud seeding has been experimented with in one form or another for decades, a recent example of weather manipulation in Dubai has made news. Videos have been released by…
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Israel's Remote Machine Gun Assassination - Powered by Satellite, Enhanced with AI
Top Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh had long been a target of assassination plans, as it was feared his work would lead to the creation of nuclear weapon systems for the country of Iran. In November of 2020, Fakhrizadeh was killed by gunfire as he drove down the road. The placement…
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China's Lying Flat Movement and the Similar Stories in America
The phrase "Lying Flat" doesn't immediately make the impression as a form of social and economic protest which is causing concern among industrialist elites, but it's the relatively simple nature of the movement which creates its power. Lying flat, or "tangping" in Chinese, is a very simple...
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Fatal Insomnia - a Terrifying and Little Understood Disease
Fatal Familial Insomnia - a disease you may have heard of, as it's gained some notoriety on the internet despite its incredible rarity. I'm sure we've all felt insomnia before and know the frustration and the impact that just one or two bad nights of sleep can have on our functioning. Fatal...
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Advertisements Targeting Your Dreams
More and more, advertisements are an inescapable force in life. There is almost no part of our life that advertisers won't touch - including our dreams. This video is about targeted dream incubation - the practice of intentionally implanting material for a person to dream about - and its…
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When A US Missile Accidentally Struck Mexico - Athena Flight #122
US Missile History during the Cold War is quite expansive, due to a frenzy of activity during that time. However, today's discussion is around an incident that's little discussed despite being potentially problematic for international relations. This is the history of the Athena Missile Flight...
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Your Digital Afterlife? These Companies Want to Upload You After Death
Life, death, love and loss are some of the defining factors of the human experiences. But as we enter the age where progressing technology comes to a crossroads with the promise of escaping the problems of conventional paradigms, many have begun to wonder how some of these issues can be resolved....
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Who is John Quincy St. Clair? Hyperspace Researcher and UFO Inventor
John Quincy St. Clair is a Hyperspace researcher responsible for invention mechanisms for space travel, remote viewing, teleportation, and many other highly-advanced technologies - or at least that's what he claimed in submitting these designs to the US Patent and Trade Office. For someone with...
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Living Funerals and Seizenso - Attending Your Own Funeral
Living Funerals, celebrations of life, Seizenso - 3 words that all describe roughly the same idea - holding a ceremony to honor the end of a person's life, while they're still alive. It's often said that "funerals are for the living" because the person being honored is already dead and gone, and...
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Japan's WW2 Plot to Spread Plague in America - Operation Cherry Blossoms At Night
Content Warning: Nuclear, chemical and biological warfare; human experimentation; global war World War 2 was a war marked by rapid advancement of technology, newly destructive weaponry, and changes in tactic as the militaries of the nations involved learned to adapt to a new era of warfare. Some…
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The Dark Night of the Soul - When Depression and Pain Lead to Growth
The Dark Night of the Soul and Positive Disintegration are two concepts which are closely tied together - the belief that some forms of extreme emotional duress are unfortunately necessary for growth and reaching a higher, more preferable state of the human condition. The Dark Night of the Soul…
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The Panopticon and the Punishment of Being Watched
The panopticon - a place where all contained can be watched at any time, unaware of the status of their observers. First proposed by social theorist Jeremy Bentham, the idea of the panopticon was that the constant potential for being observed would lead to behavior which would fall in line with…
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What Happened To The First Human Head Transplant?
Having your head taken off and surgically implanted onto another body sounds crazy, right? Maybe, like me, you remember hearing about plans by an Italian neurosurgeon to perform the first human head transplant, but what happened to that? It seemed to have dropped out of the news cycle one day. So…
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Rods From God/Orbital Kinetic Bombardment - Real Sci-Fi Weapons
The weapon systems we see in science fiction inspire awe, fear and wonder about the power of humanity and the boundaries we push. As technology advances, sometimes real life technology comes closer than we expect to the capabilities imagined in science fiction. Today's episode is the first in the...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Discussing the things which keep us awake at night, or the stories which help lull us to sleep. The Ad Noctem Podcast is dedicated to the strange, fantastic and innovative. Of particular interest are those things which blur the lines between reality, fantasy, and science fiction. Topics discussed may be fiction, non fiction, or in the grey area between.
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Ad Noctem Media
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Discussing the things which keep us awake at night, or the stories which help lull us to sleep. The Ad Noctem Podcast is dedicated to the strange, fantastic and innovative. Of particular interest are those things which blur the lines between reality, fantasy, and science fiction. Topics discussed...
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