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Doctors Megan Connell, Kelli Dunlap, Rachel Kowert, and Sarah Sawyer noodle around on topics in video games, geek culture, and psychology.
Why did our parents ever let us watch The Never Ending Story?! The cast is all here! This week on Brain Noodles, we’re discussing movies and TV shows we grew up watching and how the next generation may need to wait before they get creeped out too.
Well, Noodlers, we’ve had A LOT of changes happen over the last few months. This week Dr. Megan, Dr. Sarah, and Amelia discuss cultural, political, and life changes and how we deal with change.
Hello Noodlers! There is a lot happening in the world right now. We start this episode out discussing Black Lives Matter and police brutality and how we are addressing what is happening as individuals, content creators, and as psychological professionals. We then hard pivot to discuss She-Ra and the strong, positive messages that it gives for all audiences, especially for girls and young women. Did you know that She-Ra passes the Bechdel Test?
Congratulations graduates! This week on Brain Noodles, our hosts discuss graduation rituals and how they are changing this year because of COVID-19. Not getting able to walk or celebrate with peers has provided a major bummer for so many seniors but we want you to still be proud of all the hard work you’ve done to get here.
Dr. Rachel ditched the planner?!? This week our hosts are revisiting planner usage post-COVID-19 outbreak and how routines and schedules continue to adapt as time goes on in quarantine. Our hosts also cover different ways they have had to adapt and what lessons being in quarantine has taught them about themselves, their families, and careers.
Hello, Noodlers! This week our hosts discuss their backgrounds in game studies, psychology in gaming, and the research that they’ve done for their dissertations.
Hey Noodlers! We know that everyone has been talking about it but this week we wanted to discuss how the lives of our hosts have changed during social distancing. We discuss the games we’re playing, managing our new schedules, and discussing parts of geek culture that we “missed the boat” on.
Below: Dr. Kelly shared a picture of her husband’s drawing that her son asked if he could help to finish.
Hey Noodlers! While the world is processing the news of the recent pandemic, this week we’re discussing games that changed how we viewed the world. We also catch up with our hosts on the current games they’re playing, recovering from PAX East, and the other shenanigans that they’ve been getting in.
Games mentioned in today's episode: Mafia 3, Neo Cab, Black and White, Can my Pet, The Visit, and Banished.
Finding adult friendships is hard. Once you’re out of school, many of us find it hard to build new friendships. On this episode, Dr. Connell, Dr. Sawyer, and Dr. Dunlap discuss finding your tribe in adulthood and in the geek community.
Amanda is a wife. A mother. A blogger. A Christian.
A charming, beautiful, bubbly, young woman who lives life to the fullest.
But Amanda is dying, with a secret she doesn’t want anyone to know.
She starts a blog detailing her cancer journey, and becomes an inspiration, touching and
captivating her local community as well as followers all over the world.
Until one day investigative producer Nancy gets an anonymous tip telling her to look at Amanda’s
blog, setting Nancy on an unimaginable road to uncover Amanda’s secret.
Award winning journalist Charlie Webster explores this unbelievable and bizarre, but
all-too-real tale, of a woman from San Jose, California whose secret ripped a family apart and
left a community in shock.
Scamanda is the true story of a woman whose own words held the key to her secret.
New episodes every Monday.
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Amanda’s blog posts are read by actor Kendall Horn.
