Do You Want to Believe? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios

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Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/donateidea Today's episode has been sponsored by Squarespace. For more information, visit http://www.squarespace.com/ideachannel Tweet us! http://bit.ly/pbsideachanneltwitter Idea Channel Facebook! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelfacebook Talk about this episode on reddit! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelreddit Idea Channel IRC! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelirc Email us! pbsideachannel [at] gmail [dot] com Popular 90’s television series, The X-Files, is making its return to the airwaves. And this begs the question, why now? What is it about our current social and political climate that has once again created a market for ‘the unknown’? Space travel and exploration has made its way back into the mainstream, and this time for more practical reasons than pride or curiosity. So does this mean that we have collectively moved beyond our alien paranoia, and towards the goal of becoming aliens ourselves? Please discuss your thoughts in the comments! ----------------------------------------­­­­­­­---------------------------- Check out It's Okay To Be Smart's Video about Bigfoot! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0xYRnxVvJI ----------------------------------------­­­­­­­---------------------------- Last Week's Episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MySO7UBTlbI ----------------------------------------­­­­­­­---------------------------- TWEETS OF THE WEEK: https://twitter.com/thaumatropia/status/687002303405142016 https://twitter.com/BagbyCT/status/686915663126892545 https://twitter.com/qaschmuki/status/686708491877105666 https://twitter.com/idiotemm/status/686705681366294529 https://twitter.com/ElectricDidact/status/687103157449670656 https://twitter.com/Jordan_D/status/687280592468197376 ----------------------------------------­­­­­­­---------------------------- SOURCES FOR THIS EPISODE: http://footnotes.pbsideachannel.com/category/videos/do-you-want-to-believe/ ----------------------------------------­­­­­­­---------------------------- ASSET LINKS: All asset links can be viewed here in this fun Google doc! https://docs.google.com/document/d/17vnN3k-ZrW6U5DNrMZ30vNdQqi2ZgomEnpWS_MH-qIU/edit?usp=sharing ----------------------------------------­­­­­­---------------------------- Music: "Europe" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Level 5" by Room for the Homeless (http://bit.ly/10N0Ykm) "Bouncy Castle" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) ":P" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Squarehead" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Number Cruncher" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Little Birthday Acid" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Topskore" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Anti Vanishing Spray" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Tarty Prash" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Carry on Carillon" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Uptown Tennis Club" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Squarehead" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Dream Of Autumn" by Night Shift Master https://soundcloud.com/dj-darkmatter- "Insert Toy For Coin" by Eatme (http://eatme.pro/music/) "Dizor" by Outsider https://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/440 "Lets go back to the rock" by Outsider https://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/440 "Something like this" by Outsider https://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/440 ----------------------------------------­­­­­­---------------------------- Written and hosted by Mike Rugnetta (@mikerugnetta) (who also has a podcast! Reasonably Sound: http://bit.ly/1sCn0BF) Made by Kornhaber Brown (http://www.kornhaberbrown.com)