When a laboratory accident leads to electrocution and the accidental discovery of time travel, Doctor Petronella Sage, alongside her faithful friend and companion, Erasmus Savant, seizes the opportunity to make her mark in the annuls of history.
In this month’s episode–Feet to the Fire, Dr Sage runs the risk of losing her funding by the head of her department, Provost Cunningham. While the are a variety of issues, one concern is to what extent can one stifle the quest for knowledge and understanding.
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“Women just don’t have the mind for advanced calculations…” or so says Provost Cunningham, the head of department, who is determined to cut off funding for Doctor Sage’s galvanization work. There is no time for travel as Petronella prepares to defend her research at an inquiry where her entire career is on the line.
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What would you do if you found a mummified hand hidden away in your closet or treasures you’ve never even dreamed of ever finding?
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Doctor Petronella Sage thinks she has discovered a way to direct travel through time and space. By changing the Chladni design, Sage and Savant find themselves on a pirate ship and living life before the mast. While the life of a pirate is dangerous, finding a way to return to their own Steampunk world and the laboratory of Dr Sage become quite a challenge.
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Convinced that their trip into the future might just be delusion, mad-scientist Doctor Petronella Sage devises an experiment to test her hypothesis. Using the most advanced brain science in the Steampunk universe she plans to prove that their latest foray into the world of the future is all an illusion caused by the galvanistic linking of her brain to the Professor’s.
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Steampunk scientists Sage and Savant continue to prove that death is no barrier to science as they venture for the first time into the future. The Roarin’ 20s will require all of their ingenuity as they deal with motorcars, prohibition, the coppers and the most confounding of modern inventions – the zipper!
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In researching the next episode of our podcast, we wanted the locals to have the right flavor to their language. The roaring twenties were a period of truly colorful language, and so the people Sage and Savant mean needed to have the appropriate character to set the scene. Prohibition brought in a host of slang words into the English language as people sought ways to talk about their plans without raising interest from the local law enforcement. We pulled some of our favorites from “Flapperspeak: Dictionary of Words from the 1920’s and 1930’s.”
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William J
ames was an American psychologist of the late nineteenth century. He studied to become a physician, and was the first educator to offer a university course in psychology. His writings illuminate a number aspects about human thought that are still considered true today, and one of the most cited psychologists in the 20th century.
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