Probably Science

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Probably Science
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GenreComedy, science
Language English
Publication
Original releaseJanuary 21, 2012 (2012-01-21)
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Website www.probablyscience.com

Probably Science is a weekly comedy and science podcast which first aired on January 21, 2012. The show is co-hosted by Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen, and Jesse Case. [1] Former co-host and founding member Brooks Wheelan left the show in 2013 for personal reasons [2] and has since returned as a guest. In Brooks' absence, Case, previously a guest, was brought on as a co-host.

Contents

The podcast focuses on current scientific news. Occasionally it explores different facets of relevant media, including the host's comedy careers, as well as the large array of careers and hobbies held by the guests. [3] [4]

A wide range of guest have appeared in their episodes, including astronaut Chris Hadfield, [5] astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, [6] comedian Chris Hardwick, [7] Sean M. Carroll [8] (a research professor in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology), and two appearances from Doctor Who and Guardians of the Galaxy actress Karen Gillan. [9] [10]

Episodes

Ep#GuestsTopics [11] Airdate
1NoneTuring test, Seals and kangaroos, & Did Columbus's arrival cool the Earth24 January 2012
2 Nick Rutherford Favorite dinosaurs, Predicting gang violence with math, & Fake Mars missions in Russian parking garages25 January 2012
3 Mike Burns iPhone anger, secret government aliens, & Spontaneously obese monkeys26 January 2012
4 Barry Rothbart Shooting nudist colony videos, World's lightest substance, & Extraterrestrial real estate1 February 2012
5NoneHorror movie bird flu, Russian scientists disappear searching for prehistoric lake, & are the Japanese whaling addicts6 February 2012
6 Johnny Pemberton Subliminal science projects, Using monkeys to measure radiation, & Using monkeys to measure radiation9 February 2012
7 Kyle Kinane Sexy snakes, C. Everett Koop dissecting cats, & Human hypersleep13 February 2012
8 April Richardson Does booze makes you smarter, Should all scientists just work on cancer, & Swiss space janitors20 February 2012
9 Brody Stevens The government's “Avatar” ripoff, Resurrecting a 30,000-year-old plant, & Vegan dogs26 February 2012
10 Jesse Case Breakups, Asteroids ending the world in 28 years, & Solving our energy crisis with poop5 March 2012
11 Howard Kremer Jim Cameron's adventures under the sea, Solar Flares, & The Clap12 March 2012
12 Auggie Smith Guiding lightning with lasers, Babies are smarter than computers, & Isaac Newton's apocalyptic predictions18 March 2012
13 Chris Franjola Figuring out why shock therapy works, Why hasn't the Segway conquered the world, & Using lasers to see around corners26 March 2012
14 Paul Jay Armchair astronomy, Vibrating tattoos, & Growing new body parts2 April 2012
15 Dave Holmes Do antibiotics cause weight gain, Could bacteria cause OCD, & Dolphin gangs8 April 2012
16 Alonzo Bodden 600 mile-per-hour tape, The first use of fire, & Space elevators18 April 2012
17 James Adomian Skeletons in hot air balloons, Particles that are their own antiparticles, & Giant sharks23 April 2012
18 Jackie Kashian Stalactites vs. stalagmites, Birds with GPS neurons, & Are we scaring sharks away from their reefs30 April 2012
19 Justin Ian Daniels The Supermoon, Vibrating suits for Olympians, & Super-fast wi-fi with common laser pointers7 May 2012
20 Blaine Capatch The Yellowstone supervolcano, Revisiting the airborne version of bird flu, & Venus goes in front of the Sun14 May 2012
21 Eddie Ifft Global warming denial campaigns, Mormon-backed niceness initiatives, & Re-routing apocalypse asteroids with pebbles21 May 2012 (Live)
22 Duncan Trussell Tarot card Rorschach tests, Lunar landing conspiracy theories, & Preparing to break the free-fall world record28 May 2012
23 Jason Nash The science of superheroes, Private spaceflight, & The eclipse4 June 2012
24 Eliza Skinner The Patriot missile test launches, Hands-on science museums, & Why can't you use your phone on a plane11 June 2012
25 Tony Sam Protecting the ocean surrounding Australia, Speech-learning robots, & Colonizing Mars18 June 2012
26 Bil Dwyer News25 June 2012
27 Jordan Morris The world's biggest crocodile, Male contraceptives, & Rock-scissors-paper robots2 July 2012
28 Moshe Kasher The proliferation of Genghis Khan DNA, Saving baby beluga whales, & Preventing hearing loss with AMPK proteins9 July 2012
29 Nick Turner Robots that walk like humans, Neurological wiring predicting chronic pain, Mayan apocalypse15 July 2012
30 Steve Agee The dark side of cornstarch, Non-Newtonian bullet-proof vests, & Building a jellyfish out of rat hearts23 July 2012
31 Robert Buscemi Measuring a river's meander, Is impersonating a beekeeper a crime, & What's an aquifer29 July 2012
32 Guy Branum Rural sociology, Wasting a law degree, & Calling out Guns, Germs and Steel6 August 2012
33 Kira Soltanovich Shift workers at risk for heart attacks, Auto-erotic self-asphyxiation, & Bodily changes brought on by pregnancy13 August 2012
34 Julian McCullough Denmark's penal system, "Green" cremation, & Endangered sharks20 August 2012
35 Baron Vaughn Ways to straighten teeth, Super-fertility causing miscarriage, & Bill Nye stands up to creationists27 August 2012
36 Shane Mauss Evolutionary psychology & The science refuting Todd Akin's mind-bogglingly stupid statement about rape and pregnancy3 September 2012
37 Power Violence Hurricane preparedness, Setting your house on fire, & Voyager I reaching the edge of the Solar System10 September 2012
38 Mark Agee King Tut's girlish figure, John Wayne Gacy's head injury, & evolutionary explanation of the placebo effect17 September 2012
39 Andy Haynes Vegetarianism, Dead baby pandas, & figuring out what a harvest moon is24 September 2012
40 Hampton Yount Formally lost episode from December 20111 October 2012
41 Richard Bain Insects with mechanical brains, Hiring a green exterminator, & Bees that make blue and green honey8 October 2012
42 Emery Emery The origin of Probably Science, Cheating yo-yos with mechanical clutches, & Trusting expertise14 October 2012
43 Josh Cheney and Dax Jordan Celery-based science fair projects, Felix Baumgartner's record-setting jump, & How long would it take for something to fall to the center of the Earth22 October 2012
44 Chip Pope Decoding the oldest-known writing system, The Wachowski siblings, & Hermit crab key parties29 October 2012
45 Mike Siegel Felix Baumgartner is anti-space exploration, Self-fixing concrete, & Red Bull Flugtag mishaps5 November 2012
46 Taylor Williamson Acid rain experiments, Math anxiety creates actual pain, & High school Republicanism12 November 2012
47 TJ Miller Growing your own balsa wood, Congressmen who don't believe in evolution, & A wandering planet19 November 2012
48 Marianne Sierk The OCD nature of religion, Insects with giant testicles, & The lack of women in science jobs depicted in TV and movies26 November 2012
49 Tom Sibley Robotic snakes, Vernor's Herzog, & Ice on Mercury3 December 2012
50 Kyle Kinane Peeing in the shower, The cotton gin, & Young Einstein10 December 2012
51 Troy Conrad Improvised debate, House/career dysmorphia, & Hot tub clothing regulations17 December 2012
bonus episodeJesse CaseWorld War II bunker dogs, hospice situations, & home videos from the 1980s31 December 2012
PH 1Jesse CaseProbably History: Christmas11 January 2013
52 Dan Telfer the NASA mohawk guy, Making origami cranes as astronaut training, & Shoulder hair14 January 2013
53 Wil Anderson Climate change denial, Karl Kruszelnicki's study of belly button fluff, & Being laughed at vs. being laughed with21 January 2013
54 Laura House Chili competitions, Drinking and guns, & Shooting pesky mink30 January 2013
55 Dr. Peter McGraw and Baron Vaughn special episode devoted entirely to the science of why things are funny4 February 2013
56 David Huntsberger The importance of giant prime numbers, The loneliness of Google Street View team members, & The uselessness of Yelp reviews11 February 2013
57 Michael James Nelson and Robert Buscemi Fox News and their assessment of the value of space water, Drilling into the surface of Mars, & Space cats18 February 2013
58Jeff KlingerMalfunctioning Segways, Expensive anatomical models, & Figuring out when man's anscestors developed a tolerance for booze
PH 2 Mark Agee Probably History: life in first-century Rome28 February 2013
59 Mike Schmidt The cured AIDS baby, Visiting a spice farm, & Harry Potter vs. Twilight5 March 2013
60 Glenn Wool and Lady CarolDoes bee venom kill HIV, Caffeine-addicted bees, & Mummies with heart conditions12 March 2013
61 Chris Hardwick Using iPhones to detect intestinal worms, A new way to keep livers alive for transplantation, & Hobo sapiens19 March 2013
62 Matt Braunger Comedians in therapy, Birds evolving shorter wings to escape cars, & Overfishing breeding smaller fish26 March 2013
63 Aparna Nancherla Magnet schools, Retrieving rockets from the ocean floor, & Unearthing plague pits2 April 2013
64 Cameron Esposito and River Butcher Why spittoons make a dinging noise, Daft Punk and Cyberdyne Systems, & Cockney rhyming slang9 April 2013
65 The Sklar Brothers The latest bird flu scare, Spending $100 million to lasso an asteroid, & Using kidney bean leaves to trap bedbugs16 April 2013
66 Peter Serafinowicz and Gallagher Live at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival.23 April 2013
67 Karen Kilgariff and April RichardsonQuantum physics and Ramtha, Cheesy potatoes, & First aid book illustrations30 April 2013
68 Celia Pacquola and TJ Chambers Arizona State's party reputation, Nonsensical drinking age laws, & Mainlining oxygen7 May 2013
69 John Roy Daft Punk's new album, water slides and skydiving, & 480,000,000 needles in space14 May 2013
70 Crystal Dilworth and Alexandra Lockwood Dancers moonlighting as scientists, the myth of Tryptophan, & penguins getting knighted in Denmark22 May 2013
PH 3Pat ReillyProbably History: The Borgias28 May 2013
71 Rory Scovel The secret lives of parents, saving a baby with a 3D printer, & playing guitar while getting brain surgery4 June 2013
72Brooks WheelanA Probably Science ripoff, woolly mammoth blood, & light shows with microwaved grapes11 June 2013
73 Janna Levin Black holes orbiting in three-leaf clovers, the Large Hadron Collider: nothing to worry about, & Einstein's explanation of Mercury's odd orbit19 June 2013
74 David Angelo The effects of light and darkness on cabbage, curing cancer, & traveling to Mars via nuclear propulsion26 June 2013
75Dr. James Kakalios, Tommy Ryman, and Dan SchlisselLive from Convergence Con: telescopic eyes, how to transport science on a boat, & superconductors6 July 2013
76 Colleen Watson and Charlene ConleyMarried guys have less AIDS, making igloos, & marrying buildings16 July 2013
77Virginia Jones and Auggie SmithA blue planet that rains glass, controlling stem cells with magnets, & a new Neptune moon22 July 2013
78Dr. Sean Carroll The fixed density of dark energy, we are the creamy tendrils in a universal cup of coffee, & the arrow of time28 July 2013
79Hank and Chris ThompsonSibling rivalry, taxi drivers' enlarge hippocampi, & inheriting the chess team captain crown6 August 2013
Summer Bonus EpisodeDr. Richard Flower, Dr. Anna Collu, and Jeff and Emily Mounts"Keep your standards low and enjoy!"13 August 2013
80 Nick Doody No Subject1 September 2013
81 Humphrey Ker and Bryan CookThe hilarious Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction show, asylum movies, & the curse of having a posh accent10 September 2013
82Kathleen RitterbushFalling for the testicle-biting fish hoax, how fossils form, & thinking dinosaurs and humans coexisted17 September 2013
83David Epstein and Paul MorrisseyThe genetics of wanting to train hard, the link between elite athletes and ADHD, & Major League hitters who can't touch a 60 mph softball24 September 2013
84Keith Malley and Chemda aka Keith and the Girl Estranged parents, having an intern clean the DNA off of your keyboard, & the government shutdown2 October 2013
85 Rhys Darby and Brandon FibbsLive from the LA PodFest: Space sex, harvesting Helium-3 from the Moon, and the intricacies of the Welsh language9 October 2013
86 Karen Gillan Growing up as a Scottish serf, criticizing the physics of the movie Gravity , and fruit bat fellatio16 October 2013
87 Nate Craig Flushing out brain toxins while you sleep, rapidly aging breast tissue, & a possible cure for baldness22 October 2013
88 Brendon Burns Whatever killed the non-avian dinosaurs wiped out a load of bees, Perthans, and finding bombs with dolphin-inspired radar29 October 2013
89Dr. Larry Price and Dr. Jamie RollinsGravity waves and what LIGO actually is, why we don't go straight through tables, & how to measure something that's smaller than the smallest thing you can think of5 November 2013
90 Scotty Landes and Heather ThomsonProfessional hugging, animals doing math, & the science of Captchas12 November 2013
91 Samm Levine and Susan Burke Hotel living, the perks of priesthood, & using levitating droplets of water to create nanoparticles19 November 2013
92 Andi Osho Dogs reacting to the directions of fellow dogs' tail wags, the speed of gravity waves, & the gray area of children's photos25 November 2013
93 Jason John Whitehead Birthright trips to Israel, Jesse's Typewriter collection, & goosing
3 December 2013
94 Daniel Sloss Scottish pride, Everyone's fingers connect, & adolescent mice that drink alcohol because of peer pressure10 December 2013
95Dr. Ainissa Ramirez and Sarah Tiana A new style of safer tackling, Waffle House waiters who are like quarterbacks, & the reasons for the Michigan/Ohio state rivalry17 December 2013
96 Lee Billings and Dr. Bjoern BennekeThe Drake equation, Earth's recent trend toward radio silence, & energy-hungry alien civilizations creating Dyson spheres26 December 2013
97 Emily Heller and Auggie SmithMaking belly button cheese, the polar vortex, & doing comedy for a glass company8 January 2014
98Dr. Peter McGraw and Caleb BaconPeter McGraw: Wanted dead or alive, the comedy terrorist, & humor in Auschwit14 January 2014
99 Dwayne Perkins The lone woman of San Nicolas Island, dying carnivores changing the courses of rivers, & composing a song based on auditory hallucinations21 January 2014
100 Karen Gillan and Brooks WheelanThe excommunication of Halley's Comet, dipping blood cells in acid to make stem cells, & non-hormonal, reversible, cheap male birth control31 January 2014
101Graham ElwoodSuing NASA for not looking hard enough into aliens, marijuana lowering suicide rates, & Bill Nye debating a creationist4 February 2014
102Professor Matthew Walker, Kurt Braunohler, and Daniel Van KirkLive from SF Sketchfest12 February 2014
103 Wendy Wason How John Wayne Gacy got caught, Matt's serial killer neighbor, & a computer-generated math proof that's bigger than all of Wikipedia19 February 2014
104 Andrew Solmssen The illusion of digital privacy, looking at clips of severe Russian accidents as a profession, & the discovery of a 4.4 billion-year-old crystal25 February 2014
105 James Bachman and Danny Lobell Having a Jewish-themed wedding, a recently unearthed 30,000-year-old megavirus, & a 3D-printed electronic glove for you heart4 March 2014
106 Jimmy Shubert and Matt DavisRubbing strange lamps you find at the beach, baby tumors that have teeth, & another AIDS baby who's been cured10 March 2014
107 Stefan Pop & Rylee NewtonHP Lovecraft movies, A more in-depth look at the drug Narcan, & The Netherlands' speed skating dominance18 March 2014
108Drs. Larry Price, Jamie Rollins & Janna LevinThe Big Bang, what Inflation means & what this BICEP2 experiment did27 March 2014
109 Tara Flynn Saving the government $400 million by changing fonts, Ink cartels, & Debunking St. Patrick1 April 2014
110 Beth Donahue Taking four-hour acid, The truth about the stem cell acid bath story, & The possibility of a topical fat-burning cream8 April 2014
111 Cara Santa Maria The Cosmos reboot, Bath salts: They don't actually make you hungry for faces, & A Cornell grad students letting a bee sting every part of his body14 April 2014
112 Bryan Bishop Jumprope failures as cancer symptoms, Going through chemo and radiation therapy while planning your wedding, & Getting (and giving) horrible news22 April 2014
113Auggie SmithReinventing the axe, A study that reveals the best way for men to dance, & Being goofy-footed29 April 2014
114NoneHitler's disabilities, Stephen Hawking's worries, & Building pyramids7 May 2014
115 Paul Provenza & Amber Case Live from Bridgetown Comedy Festival18 May 2014
116 Myq Kaplan John Lennon's true assassin Stephen King, A defense of puns, & Competing against a computer in a joke-off30 May 2014
117 Sarah Morgan Head trauma that created a math savant, A defense of common core math, & Children's natural skepticism of circular arguments4 June 2014
118 Jason Nash New information on how the Moon was formed, A debate on parabolic flights, & New research on why Facebook bums you out12 June 2014
119 Adam Buxton The counting skills of black bears, Whittling your fingers to type on a Blackberry, & A digression on areolar Montgomery glands18 June 2014
120Dr. Christopher Schmittold world/new world ape divergence, why certain primates are getting obese, & Koko the gorilla's nipple obsession24 June 2014
121 Renee Gauthier & Dr. Kevin Peter HickersonThe actual cost of going to the Moon, Working near CERN, and Studying neutrinos1 July 2014
PH 4David CopeProbably History: Video Games9 July 2014
122TJ ChambersChimpanzee fads, Bear fellatio, & The origin of Winnie the Pooh18 July 2014
123Jordan and Ben BradyLacerta lizard people, Pluto possibly getting reinstated as a planet, & Suspended animation for gunshot victims22 July 2014
124 Beth Stelling Bats navigating via polarized light, Real 3D vs. fake 3D, & The cancer-fighting effects of cat poop29 July 2014
125Brent Schmidt & Zach PughRe-purposing coal mines for science, When did Hogwarts abandon muggle technology, & Teenage nervous breakdowns7 August 2014
126 Matt Champagne and Auggie SmithHarry Potter corrections, Blair Witch Project disappointments, & Kilobots16 August 2014
127 Kulap Vilaysack and Mark AgeeThe Laotian Civil War, Bo penh nyang, & Dealing with gambling addiction in your family21 August 2014
128 Adrian Poynton Getting kicked out of chemistry class, A pseudo-scientific look at the history of shoe sizes, & Secret codes for elevators22 August 2014
129Bethany DwyerInternet indignation over leaked celeb nudes, Burning Man stories, & A moment of silence for the dead space geckos3 September 2014
130Daniel SlossSemen's state of matter, The Jack The Ripper story everyone's talking about, & Extreme haunted houses9 September 2014
131 Roisin Conaty Using psychedelic mushrooms to quit smoking, A woman with no cerebellum, & Scorpions that live in your books
132Jordan Morris and Dr. Matt FaulknerBurning Man, musically controlled Tesla Coil, & How to create duophonic music with lightning23 September 2014
133 Tim Minchin & Dr. Amy Parish Live from LA PodFest: Bonobos as a model for human feminism & DIY OB/GYNs1 October 2014
134Colonel Chris Hadfield Colonel Chris Hadfield time spent on the ISS8 October 2014
135 Jeff Richards Why school sucks, Freddie Mercury's jacket, & Lost cities revealed by lasers14 October 2014
136 Henry Phillips Being an awkwardness magnet, the G-spot doesn't exist, & Jesse is responsible for every wet dream21 October 2014
137Wil AndersonThe depressingly high percentages of Americans who believe in haunted houses, the origin of copulation, & cola-flavored genitals29 October 2014
138 Holly Walsh The Pope's bold new stance on evolution and the Big bang, a recently identified fragment of Amelia Earhart's plane, & chopping arachnophobia out of a man's brain5 November 2104
139 Tim Lee Australia's Big Banana, the problem with butt implants, & homosexuality correlation among identical twins12 November 2104
140 Emily Gordon Astronomy sleuths uncovering the origins of Monet paintings, a robot that makes you think there's a ghost behind you, & the Third Man Factor experienced by mountain climbers18 November 2014
141 Michael Kosta Being the 864th best tennis player in the world, the age-accelerating effects of milk, & contagious yawning in wolves25 November 2014
142 Alison Haislip Getting serenaded by wannabe Top Gun pilots, Charles Manson's nuptials, & the man who turned himself into Papa Smurf2 December 2014
143 Mike Phirman Trace elements, why we need to be done with fossil fuels by 2100, & the clearest-ever image of planetary formation9 December 2014
144Dr. Christina CampbellChimps catching bushbabies with spears, why you shouldn't use sign language in front of primates, & the drunken monkey hypothesis16 December 2014
145 Janet Varney Spider sex and hairy mouth-parts, the largest genetic analysis of gay brothers, & new evidence on human/neanderthal breeding23 December 2014
Holiday Bonus EpisodeLizard CaseInterview with Lizard Case: Nashville songwriter and tavern proprietor1 January 2015
146No GuestA British effort to send a probe to the moon, the slurred singing of drunk birds & whether or not Earth's water came from comets8 January 2015
147 Gareth Reynolds The point of the narwhal's point, what self-tickling tells us about brains, & HIV getting milder13 January 2015
148 Tone Bell Strummer snail, how Facebook likes can predict personality, & an unbeatable poker computer14 January 2015
149 Patrick Keane Polar bear wangs and pollution, P.T.S.D. in the ancient world, and the speech Nixon would have given if the Moon landing had gone wrong26 January 2015
150 Todd Glass Jesus painting restoration, un-boiling an egg, & why you shouldn't hit your kids4 February 2015
151 Jackie Gold Broken Heart Syndrome, UK lawmakers approving three-parent babies, & over-the-counter medicine linked to dementia12 February 2015
152 Barry Castagnola Rodents of unusual size with giant teeth, the doomsday list, & a new Earth-like planet18 February 2015
153 Nikki Glaser Naughty aphids ruining symbiosis for everyone, light slowed down, & gerbils and rats and plagues, oh my25 February 2015
154 Brooks Wheelan RHCP tattoos, Juggalos and tattoo removal creams, & why bubbles don't spill3 March 2015
155 Laraine Newman spider painkillers, worms that crawl in and out, & DNA-rendered facesMarch 9, 2015
156 Sara Schaefer denim facts, time travel plans & 9/11 talesMarch 19, 2015
157 Robin Ince & Brian Cox (physicist) David Lynch's America, why the queen is common, & Andy's obsession with The JinxMarch 24, 2015
158 Caitlin Doughty what goes down in a crematory, why dead bodies aren't dangerous to be around, & our society's disconnect with its deadMarch 31, 2015
159 Jay Famiglietti using surface water and reservoirs vs. dipping into groundwater reserves, agricultural vs. residential water consumption, & why local rainfall doesn't help us get out of our water deficitApril 7, 2015
160 Brendon Walsh the problem with human cannibalism, cleaning your brain surgery tools, laser wound healingApril 14, 2015
161 Ryan Singer heart-to-heart hugs, the origin of toasting, when to use questions to influence people, the return of brontosaurusApril 21, 2015
162 Rye Silverman trans facts, the Riddick man, how to spot a ghostApril 30, 2015
163 Sex at Dawn Author Dr. Chris Ryan, Caitlin Gill and Lisa Best, Live from the Bridgetown Comedy Festival the prehistoric roots of modern sexuality, the devastating impact of agriculture on our species, and whether it's actually in our nature to be monogamousMay 12, 2015
164 Chris Crofton conspiracy theory talk, the reason why the same side of the moon always faces us, and the clouds of millions of baby spiders descending on AustraliaMay 19, 2015
165 Kira Soltanovich how to say places, badly named bars, Alzheimer's and video games (and a debunking)May 27, 2015
166 Erin Gibson a chocolate science scam, herpes-based skin cancer therapy, dementor wasps and zombie cockroaches, charismatic megafauna and the Ugly Animal Preservation SocietyJune 3, 2015
167 Sean Patton immaculate conception among sawfish, putting kill switches in genetically modified organisms, and what baby traits you should be allowed to editJune 16, 2015
168 Bryan Safi the Philae comet lander waking up, time-traveling wave-particles, chimps that cook and sauerkraut's effect on anxietyJune 24, 2015
169 Jackie Kashian, TJ Chambers and Mark Agee left-handed kangaroos, the Pluto probe suffering a glitch, a creepy Google AI chatbot getting philosophical and cats controlling mice with chemicals in their urineJuly 6, 2015
170 Eddie Pepitone an upcoming mini-ice age that might not be upcoming, animal testing and monkey mind melds, citrus and cancer, toothy fish and fairy fossils, and how we're cleaning up spaceJuly 14, 2015
171Pluto Flyby with Dipak Srinivasan New Horizons mission, the MESSENGER Mercury orbiter and the upcoming Solar Probe Plus mission to scrape the surface of the SunJuly 20, 2015
172 Hampton Yount paying for a Pluto probe or an NFL stadium, slowing air travel, colonizing the moon, bacon-flavored kale, being controlled by semen, and a malaria vaccineJuly 31, 2015
173 Drennon Davis earthquake-jumping and rock balancing, old mice with young blood, fantastical EM drive stuff, chatting bonobos, 3D-printed drugs, and an Ebola vaccineAugust 5, 2015
174 Jesse Popp a newly discovered tessellating pentagon, Penrose tiling, Fermat's Last Theorem, space lettuce, giant marrows, dreamy eye movements, brain-scanning software, brain dipsticks and trepanningAugust 12, 2015
175 Matt Braunger and Auggie Smith early detection cancer urine tests, the EPA's river fuck-up, arsenic and widows, using shade balls to protect reservoirs, the web's too-weak random numbers, Benford's Law, and tiger calls.August 18, 2015
176 David Huntsberger and Jesse Case rodeo facts, the awakeness drug Provigil, cheating in war, Neanderthals' massive eyes that may or may not have caused extinction, and tiny new unafraid dwarf lemursAugust 26, 2015
177 Matt Knudsen pseudoscience and snake oil, merchant marines, space elevators, LED light pollution, why global warming is good for the rich and the incredible octopus.August 31, 2015
178 Amber Preston whether video games produce violent people or not, smoking birds, violent ancient farmers, books that purify water, the most electric place on earth, and whether swimming in lightning dangerousSeptember 9, 2015
179 Josie Long and Stuart Goldsmith how condensation works, what voltage is, magnetic wormholes, debunking spinach debunking, psych experiments that can't be reproduced and a brand new hominidSeptember 17, 2015
180 Patton Oswalt, Sean Carroll and Brooks Wheelan Live from LA PodFestoriginal third host Brooks Wheelan, along with comedy legend Patton Oswalt and Caltech theoretical physicist/cosmologist Dr. Sean CarrollSeptember 23, 2015
181 Tim Batt and Guy Montgomery monkey selfies, AIDS news, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the climate change “lawsuit”, a new target for New Horizons, new Pluto pics, and the Apollo 13 stage showSeptember 29, 2015
182 Dave Anthony anti-burp compounds, fixing brain cancer with antidepressants and blood thinners, cannabis not causing schizophrenia, a double comet situation, and 3D-printed heartsOctober 8, 2015
183 Jacob Sirof new jobs, orgasm fungi, Star Wars science, Wales and fake waves, a Chinese telescope on the moon, cheating Jews, converting vaccine skeptics and pig genesOctober 15, 2015
184 Johann Hari the emotional deafness of the rich, the government's persecution of Billie Holiday, new theories of addiction, Rat Park, Portugal's radical policy changes and the way to sell America on drug decriminalizationOctober 21, 2015
185 Kelly Carlin calculus, mind-body connections, right answers in math, whether snake fear is hard-wired, science and the Canadian election, magnetic brain control, the Gripsholm Lion, orange peels to clean up mercury, Marie Curie and Mabel NormandOctober 28, 2015
186 Kerry Godliman science vs. art, cadaver fists, the persistence of the plague, embarrassing bodies, a clickbait generator, and bee farmersNovember 5, 2015
187 Sofie Hagen and Sarah Morgan Danish science, being thrown free, a chimera twin baby, new ghosts, a new bat, spider bites, China's space plans, eyesight, face blindness, the bacon cancer scare, and crocodile eyesNovember 11, 2015
188 Travis Clark, Dax Jordan and TJ Chambers breaking the blood brain barrier, GPS versus sextants, DARYL and what it stands for, jet packs, rocket belts, wing things and personal helicopters, and dementia and Dr. DementoNovember 18, 2015
189 Yan Zhu online security, privacy, encryption, HTTPS Everywhere, podcast patent trolls, Privacy Badger, the Tor browser, the future of online ads, Edward Snowden, and the Silk RoadNovember 30, 2015
190 Daniel Van Kirk cow insemination, memory games, outrage culture, the climate and smoking, Merchants of Doubt, profound bullshit, David Avocado Wolfe, the surprising appearance of the far side of the Moon, TV quality, Bubbli, blindness and multiple personalities, movies based on the 10% of the brain idea and a Venus probe hackDecember 9, 2015
191 Cole Stratton academic decathlons, bringing spoiled wine back to life, Phineas Gage, the Amber neighbor mystery, an old satellite that came back to life, red mercury, letterboxing and summer birthsDecember 17, 2015
192 Ryan Conner the passing of David Bowie, Alvin Stardust, computer programming, a mountain lion with horrifying teeth growing out of its head, praying mantises in 3D glasses, wine story corrections, types of drunks, sperm switches, and bone foamJanuary 14, 2016
193 Adam Savage and Paul and Storm live from SF Sketchfest science myths that won't die, Billy Joel videos, our overeducated audience, soaking kiwis and the wet strength of CharminJanuary 19, 2016
194 Maria Shehata and Nick Dixonthe discovery of penicillin, vaginal steaming, poop transplant pills, autism and gut flora, standing on escalators, man/woman flu, and bringing a tortoise species back to lifeJanuary 27, 2016
195 Maude Garrett Foley artists, weird childhood memorization, a computer that beat a Go champion, E-sports, a new planet, a new HIV treatment, how quickly conspiracies would reveal themselves, and a monkey head transplantFebruary 1, 2016
196 Ingrid Oliver pengwings, umlaut words, plastination, bees and weather, sniffer bees, first class flight, anti-aging, the Zika virus, how we'll all die, and ball-packing and avalanchesFebruary 19, 2016
--Gravitational Wave LIGO SpectacularWith Janna Levin: science fluff, Marco Drago's discovery?, How LIGO works, 30 solar mass black holes, test signals, the actual paper explaining the recent gravitational wave findings, BICEP's failure, and new black holesFebruary 19, 2016
197Dr. Chiara Mingarelli low-frequency gravitational waves, pulsar timings arrays and black hole binary systems with masses that are billions of times that of the SunFebruary 25, 2016
198 Alice Wetterlund Equinox, aliens, Star Trek, why humans have chins, navigating in Ghana, space lasers and exploding e-cigarettesMarch 2, 2016
199 Rick Rosner, the Man with the Second-Highest IQ in the WorldWhat3Words, xkcd's take on passwords, IQ tests, spending ten years in high school, Olbers’ Paradox, The Singularity, Ray Kurzweil, being Borg-ed up, and Alcor freezing headsMarch 8, 2016
200 Jesse Case and Brooks Wheelan break-ups, cancer and even a few science storiesMarch 17, 2016
201Tom Bellunscrambling eggs to cure cancer, an academic paper that cites The Creator, eagles vs. drones, and spider boners in amber.March 23, 2016
202 Jessica Michelle Singleton and Christina Walkinshaw super coffee, Microsoft AI, a scientifically impossible Indiegogo, Edx.org's free learning, Vasalgel in rabbits, rabbit kidneys, long term good drug effects and fracking-induced earthquakesApril 2, 2016
203 Jason Belleville mustaches and tattoos, academic papers, encyclopedias, Stan and Donavan Freberg, using giant lasers to hide from aliens, growing skin and nude mice, a battery-operated salty fork, flavors on planes and the greatest number of digits of pi we'll ever really needApril 6, 2016
204 Jon Huck and Sunah Bilsted chemistry on acid, a Carl Sagan tribute act, the historic SpaceX landing, hyperhidrosis, antiperspirant conspiracies, a too-stealthy sea vessel, Hawking and the Russians sending a tiny craft to Alpha Centauri, and antimemoriesApril 13, 2016
205 April Richardson Dyson face, a dung-based clue to Hannibal's crossing route, a paralyzed man (sort of) playing guitar, dinosaurs and their eggs and a real-time re-creation of the sinking of the Titanic.April 19, 2016
206 Andrew Michaan celebrity deaths, Catholic aliens, black holes, the Large Hadron Collider, bed bugs, a penis spider bite, IUDs in space and jellyfish stingsApril 27, 2016
207 Fahim Anwar bringing people back from the dead, archaeology vs. paleontology, another EM Drive debunking from Sean Carroll, enzyme corrections, 3D-printed fake rhino horns, and breast cancer gene mappingMay 4, 2016
208 Zach Sherwin p-branes, playing Einstein, the new Ghostbusters script, silver underwear, a teen's Mayan discovery that may not be what it seems, everyone yells air ball at the same pitch, diving robots, being bepenised, and long-lasting batteriesMay 11, 2016
209 Mary Roach the curious science of humans at war, combat medic training, stink bombs, genital transplant surgery, the war on heat, shark repellant and diarrhea as a threat to national securityMay 25, 2016
210 Ella Gale and Sarah Mirk gender biases in science reporting, women in science (and comedy) and why it's hard to make bagels when it's hot outsideJune 8, 2016
211 John Eric Hoffman machine learning, neural networks, Maxwell's Demon, DeepDream, natural language processing and the recent short sci-fi film written by AIJune 15, 2016
212 Alie Ward supernumerary nipples, owl pellet mouse skeletons, a third lizard sex, an inflatable space station room, aeronautic training, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, MRSA, and wrestling bugsJune 21, 2016
213Professor Sophie Scott and Nick Doody the neural basis of human speech processingJuly 4, 2016
214 Derek Sheen and Sean JordanJuno's pics of Jupiter, AIDS ceasing to be an epidemic in Australia, good news on the ozone hole's healing, and even more good news about finding new reserves of heliumJuly 14, 2016
215Dr. Farah Alibay a real-world Armageddon mission to redirect an asteroid, CubeSats, giant geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus, the importance of planetary protection and upcoming solar system exploration missionsJuly 19, 2016
216 Al Jackson ball-boiling as contraception, why flossing may not help you, steroids in sports, Al's research, stomach taps, old cars vs. new cars, firefighting equipment sharing and fire in spaceJuly 28, 2016
217 Ahmed Bharoocha and Auggie Smith a new hard material, the Mohs hardness scale, Pliny the Elder, the Randi paranormal challenge, new brain areas, a new biohybrid creature, a Mars laser with free will, and artwork damagersAugust 15, 2016
218 Christian Duguay and Emily Maya Mills burning ants, Hitler's disguises, bank robbery, infant simulators that actually increase teen pregnancy, Lucy's death, a miraculous new painkiller, ecstasy/MDMA, Tasmanian devils developing cancer resistance and the ban on antibacterial soapSeptember 6, 2016
219 Shane Mauss evolutionary biology, the state of scientific research into recreational drugs, simulated near-death experiences, and the differences between trying ayahuasca and DMTSeptember 16, 2016
220 Steele Saunders mice and apologies, weed vs. opioids in car crashes, bumper sticker flashing, Australians origins, and giraffes actually being many giraffesSeptember 30, 2016
221 Shawn Pearlman budgie rules for not colliding, amateur turtle surgery, getting intelligence from your mother, a baby with three parents and the most accurate (and adorable) dinosaur renderings yet.October 10, 2016
222 Lizzy Cooperman Invisalign, fan death, having Lyme disease, Nobel Prizes in chemistry, physics and medicine, self-eating boobs and the end of RosettaOctober 17, 2016
223 Greg Behrendt the joys of riding bikes, cod accents, Nazis on meth, Provigil and sleep, black widow spider viruses, a correction to the intelligence story, Alan Turing music and Dr. StrangeOctober 25, 2016
224 Moshe Kasher playground games, stealthy spider eaters, mice fall for the same tricks as humans, the rise of renewables, vaccine deniers who accidentally proved the counterargument, conspiracy theories, the AIDS denial mom, the Duesberg hypothesis, and an accidental discovery of a way to slow aging in the brainNovember 2, 2016
225 Grant Lyon naked cow science, why reservoirs aren't all good, surgery farts, nightmare machines, sentencing algorithms, a third hominid and Patient Letter ONovember 10, 2016
226 Toby Muresianu Macedonian Facebook clickbait, polling methodologies, the supermoon, dog domestication, brain wifi that reverses monkey paralysis and a new type of bondNovember 14, 2016
227 Eric Lampaert and JJ Whitehead NASA's Space Poop Challenge, paper bike helmets, an end to zika's global health emergency, the hanging of a shipwrecked monkey and a circus elephant, and two moose found locked together in ice.November 22, 2016
228 Cecily Knobler and Auggie Smith hospice humor, intervention critiques, sex addiction getting depathologized, Myers-Briggs personality types, high school kids undercutting Martin Shkreli's expensive drugs, Google's AI that can lip read better than humans, SNL's Trump responsibility, naming Secretaries of StateDecember 1, 2016
229 Bryan Olsen and Dominic Harris battery pigs, Buzz and Antarctica, dog memory, gut Parkinson's, fecal transplants again, new elements, the chemistry helpline, uncombable hair syndrome, and platypus venom that can help diabetesDecember 5, 2016
230 Forrest Shaw face painting and Mexican fireworks and lax laws, manatee preservation and their removal from storm drains, a bid to save the smallest porpoise, Chinese appetites for rare animals, a feathery dinosaur tail encased in amber, SSREs and the bees of the oceanDecember 17, 2016
231The Secret Life of Fat with Dr. Sylvia Tara the function and behavior of fat, why it's essential to our lives, and how our genetics, gender, hormones and microbiomes affect itJanuary 3, 2017
232Steve Hallpamphlets and Thomas Paine, the passing of dark matter-discoverer Vera Rubin, ants using tiny sponges to carry honey, molten underground rivers, Bill Gates and an effective Ebola vaccine, Dr. Jane Gregory's Cognitive Behave YourselfJanuary 3, 2017
233 Maggie Rowe entropy and evolution, false memory and sleep, synaesthesia and lightning strikes, icebergs and global warming, and radio bursts from a galaxy billions of light years awayJanuary 9, 2017
234 Laura Willcox and Andy Peters failing low-level tests, sharks reproducing asexually, dud rockets, a massive Venus wave, the truth about lemmings and other potentially dodgy kids' films, plus alchemyJanuary 17, 2017
235 Andrew Ti injecting frog neurotoxins in eyes, unethical self-experiments, the EPA vs. Trump, fake news inoculation, a free course on critical reasoning, and mouse lasersJanuary 25, 2017
236 James Acaster city rivalries, science marches, Jerusalem Syndrome and Paris Syndrome, human/pig chimeras, cats possibly being as intelligent as dogs, giant otter fossils, slowing down light, a light speed sonic boomJanuary 30, 2017
237 Simon Talbot Jehovah's witnessing, our no-butthole ancestor, dinosaur protein, Danish traditions, time crystals, ask-a-sociopath, talking viruses and a possible way to reverse antibiotic resistanceFebruary 6, 2017
238 Ever Mainard and Deborah Etta scientific weirdos and Galois, starfish and STDs, finger regrowth, why whales jump, unethical kitten experiments, science fairs gone wrong, moon stuff and monkeys and dogs judging cooperation in humansFebruary 13, 2017
239 Kate Willett NASA's big exoplanet announcement, the twin paradox, twin astronauts, fake Twitter accounts, a study showing that cats may not make you crazy, and a chiropractor's creative menstrual invention.February 22, 2017
240 Johnny Pemberton water shortage solutions and Indiegogo lies, pipe bombs, ulcerative colitis, a better way to crowdsource, training bees to play with balls, chiropractic, more opinions on cats and toxo, and saving polar iceMarch 3, 2017
241 Candice Thompson ASMR, Richard Simmons, anti-Brit racism, what zoo animals taste like, Neanderthals’ medication, mini-pigs and films about them, iCondoms, 3D printing medical supplies and pizzas, swimming pool pee and dog fMRIsMarch 9, 2017
242 Phoebe Bottoms and TJ Chambers sirens and pigs, breaking up with your physics teacher, microphones in your pocket, why avoiding gluten might hurt you, unvaccinated Australians, OCD, which animals you can't keep as pets, and why plastic is still badMarch 18, 2017
243 MK Paulsen public policy, October Sky, RIP radioactive boy scout, a heart of spinach, German fake suns, beating cancer and stopping aging, strep, the Ten Commandments, and chimp death rituals.March 28, 2017
244 Henry Phillips graphene water filtration, a real-life (sort-of) Iron Man, funny foreign names, CT scan risks, CTs vs. MRIs, biologics, dumb/smart interview questions and the probability of rude names happening randomlyApril 5, 2017
245 Bryan Vokey, Carmen Morales and TJ Chambers Georgia creationism, sperm-delivered drugs, erogenous T-Rex noses, geological Brexit, Segways on boats, hamsters on Viagra and how memories are madeApril 14, 2017
246 Mary Mack and Tim Harmston Frog rockets, orchestral doubling, Army band status, Guy Fawkes, accidentally melting science, dinobirds, kids with beaks, triple yolks, yogurt toppings economics, the book-stacking problem and why shoelaces come untiedApril 19, 2017
247 Russell Howard unintentional rudeness, new spider species, birds of paradise dances, Catalina and gerbil smuggling, more spiders, scaring off mice, artificial wombs and throwing thingsMay 5, 2017
248Live from Bridgetown Comedy Festival with Dr. Betsey Brada, Dr. Bryan Horne and Hampton Yount guests' expertise is in health and medicine in southern Africa and bardic song in contemporary RussiaMay 5, 2017
249 Neil deGrasse Tyson The universe's origins, the forces that govern it, general relativity, the multiverse, dark matter, dark energy, the fact that the universe is under no obligation to make sense to you, and the questions that Neil would ask a physicist in the year 2317May 17, 2017
250 Subhah Agarwal actuarial tables and suicide, copying comics, asteroid timing, river meandering, a perfect dino, stable flamingos, Italian vaccines, mussel gloop for scarring, pretty pics of Saturn's rings and a puffy styrofoam planetMay 25, 2017
251 Renee Colvert Paris disagreements, universal healthcare, Australian healthcare, another LIGO victory, the Parker Solar Probe, the monkey mafia who steal your stuff and sell it back to you for a cracker, measuring sheep pain, and hand washing rulesJune 2, 2017
252 Curtis Cook premiere parties and imposter syndrome, catapult-making, Moravec's paradox, dino feathers and scales, getting re-upped on your vaccines, rust getting unfairly blamed for tetanus and parasitic worm healingJune 8, 2017
253 Lucas Kavner rebooted shows, reporting on robots, dog and wolf sharing, how breakfast affects benevolence, Einstein's impossible experiment finally performed, gut bacteria and dinosaur sexJune 15, 2017
255Dr. Jane Gregory Guest discusses cognitive behavior therapy and how she helps people suffering from anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and moreJuly 3, 2017
256 Jason Reich eating street apples and syringes, Vegas strategy, an HIV cure, gonorrhea vaccines, vaquitas, fireworks technology, and what Goop has in common with InfoWars July 12, 2017
257 Jim Hegarty good and bad TV, the Up Series, fireworks contamination, dog domestication, junk DNA, the crazy fly book price, Brewster's Millions rules, egg shapes and egg refrigerationJuly 20, 2017
258 Heather Thomson early email addresses, Woodboys, laws of mathematics that don't apply in Australia, how humans can out-jog horses, antibiotic lies, reversing brain damage with oxygen, and Moon waterAugust 2, 2017
259 Kara Klenk why Trump isn't good for comedy, bad forensics, hungry thinky worms, penis biting, bleach enemas to cure autism, slugs, Canaanites who just won't die and The Goldwater RuleAugust 12, 2017
260 Dipak Srinivasan the Mercury MESSENGER mission, the Pluto New Horizons flyby, Kuiper belt object 2014 MU69, and the upcoming Parker Solar Probe and a mission to Jupiter's moon EuropaAugust 21, 2017
261 Sara Benincasa Burning Man, Woodstock '99, talking people down from drugs, creating cryptocurrencies, whiskey dilution, faces trained on Skype, and Zika for brain tumorsSeptember 8, 2017
262 Casey Ley gay genes, gay face and AI, the first openly gay guy ever, snow leopards becoming less endangered, the end of Cassini, the first live 4K video from space, and the life of Sam BlackmanSeptember 15, 2017
263 Sharon Houston flavor profiles, hurricane prep, Hemingway lookalikes, wolverines, duck penises, finger phone contact, genes vs. alleles, the concept of zero, chisanbop counting, zapping people out of vegetative states, and spider sacrificeSeptember 27, 2017
264 Alice Fraser jet lag, breaking the seal, MS, a body clock Nobel Prize, Dr. Matt Walker's new sleep book, a LIGO Nobel Prize and Janna Levin's book on it, the downside of grass-fed beef, and cargo cultsOctober 5, 2017
265 Brooks Wheelan and Dave Anthony live from LA PodFesta live Probably Science from the Millenium Biltmore hotel in downtown Los Angeles as part of the 2017 Los Angeles Podcast FestivalOctober 13, 2017
266 Galloway Allbright the death of expertise, the origin of bluegrass, in-flight death plans, a neutron star collision, the LIGO song, psilocybin for depression, genes for OCD, an upcoming Chinese space lab crash, China's NASA and scorpions' toxic blendOctober 23, 2017
267 Jason Saenz debunked early psychology experiments, oyster hearing, squirrels and lepers, armadillo leprosy in Florida, a good moonbase location, Pluto's Cave, herbal meds and cancer, and blood sweatOctober 31, 2017
268 Raj Desai looking more closely at the placebo effect, and how the extinction of dinosaurs made way for mammals to come out during the dayNovember 8, 2017
269Chris Turnerarcheology, old wine, old Amish people, gay evolution, monkeys playing chicken and the theory of mindNovember 17, 2017
270Dr. Danna Staaf Humboldt squid, penis fencing among hermaphroditic flatworms, calamari pre-date the dinosaurs, and why we should all have a lot more respect and awe for cephalopods in generalNovember 21, 2017
271 Eli Braden jazz addicts, conspiracy theories, not a head transplant, prehistoric women's strength, mnemonics, grossing out chimps, health codes and California DNovember 30, 2017
272 Pat Francis donating medals, miming phones, teen brains that can't tell what's important, homeless etiquette, Voyager I firing up again, coffee and health, grammar rules and beard posturingDecember 5, 2017
273 Jim Jefferies self-driving cars, feeding spiders graphene, a new space tire, Mars temperatures, cricket commentary, onion ubiquity, Dubai space agriculture, business class from the ground, and upsetting rock starsDecember 18, 2017
274Environmental Science and Sustainable Food with Dr. Pete Newton "food miles" not all they're cracked up to be, hunting pangolins, anaconda attacks in the field, the perils of ruminants, changing our behavior, changing a whole country's behavior, and lab-grown meatDecember 26, 2017
275TJ Chambers and Auggie Smith the recent SpaceX launch, traveling salesbees, sleeping jellyfish, Matt Walker on sleep, and how to keep your exercise resolutionJanuary 3, 2018

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