{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5f743ab6e2824f6eb7d3cbe6/5fce440dd0f5184590a44e07?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Ghostbusters","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5f743ab6e2824f6eb7d3cbe6/1651149179571-6b3fb673ddeea09c1f3c31ddfff85781.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>This week we're talking Ghostbusters (1984). It's ghost science!!</p><p><br></p><p>The old gods are coming and they're spewing ectoplasm everywhere so load up the traps, ready the proton packs and get ready to make some s'mores! Freda stans the marketing tactics, Abi solves ghosts and we're all just thinking...damn, they don't make 'em like this anymore! </p><p><br></p><p><em>\"Who you gonna call....parapsychologists!\"</em></p><p><br></p><p><strong><em>Twitter</em></strong>: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/movies_science\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@movies_science</a></p><p><strong><em>Instagram</em></strong>: <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/scienceatthemovies/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@scienceatthemovies</a></p><h4>References, resources and tidbits:</h4><p>Parapsychology: (you might need journal access! But Wikipedia has a pretty good article on it)</p><ul><li>J.B.Rhine's Extra-Sensory Perception and Its Background in Psychical Research - <a href=\"https://www.jstor.org/stable/i302318\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Vol. 67, No. 2 (Jun., 1976)</a>, pp. 160-189 (30 pages) Published By: The University of Chicago Press</li><li><a href=\"https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/abs/anomaly-called-psi-recent-research-and-criticism/481597608B2A829E0E0B77CD750A947E\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The anomaly called psi: Recent research and criticism</a> - Rao, K., &amp; Palmer, J. (1987). The anomaly called psi: Recent research and criticism.&nbsp;<em>Behavioral and Brain Sciences,</em>&nbsp;<em>10</em>(4), 539-551. doi:10.1017/S0140525X00054455</li></ul><p>Science Topics:</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/research-centres-and-groups/ion-trapping/public/PwTCP_chap1.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Penning Traps</a> - Imperial College London</li><li><a href=\"https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/august-2010/the-do-it-yourself-cyclotron#:~:text=Amateur%20cyclotron%20chambers%20are%20usually,is%20eight%20centimeters%20in%20diameter\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The do-it-yourself Cyclotron</a> - Symmetry</li><li><a href=\"https://home.cern/science/accelerators/how-accelerator-works\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">How an accelerator works</a> - CERN</li><li><a href=\"https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/oobleck-bring-science-home/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">It's Oobleck! </a>- Scientific American</li></ul><p>Youtube Fun Times:</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9Nj5S3HGSo\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Science vs The Supernatural</a> episode from The Infinite Monkey Cage</li><li><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj7qJYu840ORqxB0vHPzSzw\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Channeling Spirits</a> YouTube channel. </li></ul>","author_name":"Abigail James and Freda Werdiger"}