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View the full archive of Nuno Teixeira A Lowdown Mini on the Mobuzz.TV iPhone Episode Last week on Thursday, the new host of MobuzzTV, Gabe Mac, previous vlogger over at XOLO.TV, was kind enough to ask me to do a Canadian correspondence on the iPhone ho-hah here in Canada. My little interjection happens around the 3:40 mark. MobuzzTV was one of the very first podcasts that inspired me to try my [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eating Raw Herring in Maastricht, Holland I’ve visited Holland four times in the last two years but it seems there are still things I have skipped out on experiencing. Some of them less pleasurable than others. Eating raw herring was one of the times I wished I played hookey on. When my girlfriend’s good friend Milou Nicolaes came to Holland at the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Contemplating Idea of Creating a “Micro-Serial” Using 12seconds.tv [Intro to "Micro-Serial" Concept Using 12seconds.tv on 12seconds.tv] Ever since Gabe Mac came down last weekend my brain has been kick-started to another level (not a new level, just another level ; my brain has no problem being kicked AND kicking like a mule all the time). It’s like I need more things to WANT [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friday the 13th, Episode 001 From crazy stories of superstition to a massive slasher movie franchise, there's no denying that this day of ill fates and foreboding misfortunes is perhaps the most widely spread superstition of all time. Nuno gives you the Lowdown on Paraskevidekatriaphobia (ya, I can't say it either) and gives you some historical references to its origin. Good luck to all who watch this! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cloning, Episode 002 The second retro-episode features a topic that is still very much on XEI's radar. Nuno will be covering related news in the future! In the meantime, he presents you with something to peak your curiosity! The possibility of human cloning, raised when Scottish scientists at Roslin Institute created the much-celebrated sheep "Dolly" in 1997. Nuno gives the lowdown on cloning and its moral and ethical implications. Our science is starting to deliver us topics that seem to be creations out of a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chimeras, Episode 003 Technically the second part of the Cloning episode, this continuation focuses on some scientificly encourage "evolution" of new breeds of species created by mixing different animal DNA. This could be stuff out of science fiction, but XEI just thinks it's stuff out of awesomeience faction. Recently you all got the lowdown on cloning. The topic was so large we decided to bring you a part two. Nuno gives you the lowdown on chimeras, transgenic animals; animals injected with the DNA of other an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hangovers, Episode 004 Drinks with friends always sounds like a great idea. Then you go overboard and the next morning you regret the night before. Nuno gives you the lowdown on hangovers and drops suggestions to help prevent hangovers, hold them off for as long as possible or prepare for the inevitable drinkfest that will undoubtedly cause you to re-vow to never drink again... again. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Order of the Stick, Episode 005 I've been following Order of the Stick since it came out (albeit a few dozen behind at this point) and am nothing short of amazed at how much substance is actually in them from both a joke and a story perspective. It's considered a must read for gamers, especially those who play Dungeons & Dragons. If you have a couple days (or weeks) I highly recommend starting from the beginning so that you can marvel at the outstanding amount of gaming geek humor Rich Burlew is capable of on a regular ba ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Last Blood, Episode 006 Here's a webcomic I found by accident. It's called "Last Blood". It's written by Bobby Crosby and illustrated by Owen Gieni, this comic brings a new twist for fans of vampire and zombie films! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Torture Museum, Episode 007 Ever wonder where modern torture etiquette came from? Nuno gives you the lowdown on the Torture Museum in Amsterdam and in doing so highlights some of the old age devices that have thankfully gone out of practice today. At least we can all hope so, but really, who knows what goes on in the darker places of war and tyranny. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Sex Museum, Episode 008 I've studied art history and classical studies and so have seen my share of images and read plenty documentation on the views of sex throughout human history and culture, but nothing as blunt as The Sex Museum in Amsterdam can give in such a short amount of time. Nuno gives you on a quick lowdown of the sex museum, also known as The Venus Temple, and hopefully enlightens many out there to the very real notion of sex as an act of pleasure and not just an instinctual necessity to procreate. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Subscribing to RSS, Episode 009 It's funny with the speed this world is moving at thanks to the internet and the torrent of new content ALWAYS out there and ready to be blogged about, shared through social networks or collected within social bookmarking web applications, something like getting content to come to you instead of you going to it still baffles people. Nuno gives you the lowdown on how to subscribe to RSS feeds using Webtertainment.tv as the base example (of course). Here’s the first Lowdown screencast and a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ghostly Walks Tour of Victoria, BC, Episode 010 While Nuno was on the west coast of Canada, in Victoria, BC he was lucky enough to tag along in a group of tourists, led by John Adams, renowned historian and researcher and host of the show Creepy Canada. Nuno joined the 9:30pm group which lasted for about an hour and a half. During a dozen tales or more about the chilling history of some of the areas surrounding the waterfront of Victoria, Nuno locked on to John Adams for the entirety of one of the tales. Nuno gives you the lowdown on the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Biodome of Montreal, Episode 011 The Montreal Biodome is a facility located in Montreal that allows visitors to walk through replicas of four ecosystems found in the Americas. The building was originally constructed for the 1976 Olympic Games as a velodrome. You get to walk through a rainforest, a temperate forest, an estuary habitat, and the arctic and subarctic ecosystems; all of them carefully monitored to produce near-exact habitat conditions all year round. Nuno gives you the lowdown on an assortment of animals found ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Flype Club, Episode 012 If you like to stumble on random stuff out of the blue and you're the kind of person that REALLY likes to dig around like a warthog in a grub fest then The Flype Club might and might NOT be for you. Nuno gives you the lowdown on the Flype Club with the help of two founding members "stevenswrong" and "mcgrory" (on Twitter). Find out about the origins, the tribulations and the plans for the future of the (not so secret) Flype Club. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fishing Village of Marken, Episode 013 Nuno got to take a bus tour out of Amsterdam near the end of his 3 month stay. The tour group rode eastwards towards a small community reachable across a 2 km long dike stretching across a man-made lake created out of the stranded waters of the North Sea! Nuno gives you the lowdown on one of the most important Dutch settlement in centuries past, before the Enclosure Dike (The Afsluitdijk) closed off the salty sea waters, thus ending Marken's reign in the fishing industry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Salt Beds of Aveiro, Episode 014 Two years ago Nuno was able to get to Portugal. While there he grabbed a load of videos. Driving into the city of Aveiro one can see a stretch of gridded water-spots. These water-spots are part of a process that separates the natural salts out of the sea water that flows in through canals. Nuno give you a quick lowdown on the salt beds of Aveiro. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nijmegen Canadian War Cemetery, Episode 015 The city of Nijmegen has a long turbulent history. During World War II it was the first city to be invaded by the Germans which then allowed entry into the rest of Holland. The Canadians played a pivotal part in once again securing Nijmegen--but of course as with all war, many lives where the price of victory. Nuno gives you a special lowdown on the Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery and Memorial and discovering, during his research, that the uncle (George Albert Quarrier) of a good friend (Sa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dutch Clogs, Episode 016 For many people, when they think of Holland, they inevitably think of clogs--traditional wooden shoes that come in many different shapes and sizes, decoration and style. Nuno brings you the lowdown on the dutch clogs with a little help from the fine people at The Wooden Shoe Factory in Volendam. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Our Lady of Fatima, Episode 017 Religious visions happen every year all over the world. Some of them, like the one that happened in Fatima, Portugal take on a life of their own. Nuno Teixeira gives you the lowdown on Our Lady of Fatima, a sanctuary that brings people of faith together from all over Portugal and even the world. There are those who walk to this sanctuary as a "promise" to Our Lady; a trek taking days, weeks and even over a month to do. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website