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42: Gender Complexity, Mars Water Deja Vu, and Pigeons
6 juli 2023 · 1 uur 42 min
How complicated is trying to scientifically study gender? Why does it feel like water get discovered on Mars every other month? And what's so great about these pigeons I see everywhere? Lees meer
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The Brain Gender Chart
The Jacobin Pigeon
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Timestamps:
(00:00:00) Intro
(00:03:38) Gender Complexity
(00:42:27) Mars Water Deja Vu
(01:18:16) Pigeons
(01:38:21) OutroWe also learn about:
Caroline snipes Tom’s joke, let’s talk about sex, “I do it and I have one”, sex is a bimodal distribution, defining sex is like defining a tree, have you ever had a gender that… that…, women men girls and boys, gender as separate from sex, Money’s awful gender experiment, sample size: David, why haven’t they just tried… talking to people? Hasbro lobbying Big Hormone pink and blue brains have a lot of overlap, news of mars water is like news of the first gay Disney character, we found a full britta filter on mars, the first water on mars theory, Herschel thought people lived in the sun, all the things we’ve sent to mars, the “““first””” evidence of water on mars, “““recent””” water on mars, saying we found water on mars makes it sound like we’re tackling the same problem over and over, we’re learning all kinds of stuff about mars, yes there’s water on mars but first let’s define water, gender neutral martians, “sublimate” makes Caroline happy, there is sometimes and maybe water on mars, there definitely used to be water on mars, martian time periods, stop personifying mars Caroline, “the planet Vulcan’; the astronomers still watching intently”, the precovery of Pluto 15 years before its discovery, the rock dove became the pigeon, pigeons were domesticated multiple times, pigeons may be the first domesticated bird, 350 breeds of domesticated pigeons, met gala pigeon looks, endurance pigeons flying for 22 hours, homing pigeon navigation, reddit quotes, the pigeon origins of Reuters, these are kinds of …
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Best Of Everything!
19 juni 2023 · 1 uur 32 min
It's our first Best Of episode! We sat down to listen to and talk about the topics YOU told us were your favorites! Lees meer
Temporal Illusions! Eurovision! Dodos, and so much more!
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The handsome Dr. Ella Hubber, if a friend recommended this to you they’re amazing and didn’t start that orphanage fire, declaring Tom’s love for Carly in the first episode, the first “Comedy”, Tom’s Eurovision indoctrination, the grim Holiday Episode, *aggressively podcasts at man*, seeing Tom’s wheels spinning, Let’s Go To Therapy Together!
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41: Eyevolution, Eliminating Mosquitos, and Bagged Milk w/ Sabrina Cruz
8 juni 2023 · 1 uur 47 min
What are some of the wildest ways that eyes have evolved? What would happen if we got rid of all mosquitos, and how would we even do it? And how on Earth did some Canadians come to love bagged milk? Lees meer
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The Picture Tom had on his Dorm Wall
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Timestamps:
(00:00:00) Intro
(00:05:15) Eyevolution
(00:44:03) Eliminating Mosquitos
(01:18:11) Bagged Milk
(01:41:18) OutroWe also learn about:
Ella you’ve made it! it’s bagged milk all the way down, organs of extreme perfection and complication, misquoting Darwin, this is cliche because this is where this came from, Darwin’s clickbait, Eyevolution 2 Eyelectric BoogEyeloo, eye diagrams on Tom’s dorm wall, octopi are aliens, we are the ones with backward photoreceptors, you’re perfect just the way you are, horizontal and vertical pupils, cats have built in sunglasses, taller animals have rounder pupils, using the blur gradient for depth perception most, birds have circular pupils, compensatory cyclovergence in goats, horror writers have rotating goat eyes, w shaped pupils in cuttlefish, heart shaped pupils, frog pupils are a mystery, “I ought to conquer the cold shudder”, it’s just 1 mosquito species or 3,000, mosquitos are on every continent, vegetarian mosquitos, blood drinking mosquitos only drink blood to reproduce, I thought we were capri suns, *joke about women here*, palette, no plant requires mosquito pollination, the mosquito fish, mosquitos are delectable… uh… for fish, does every entomologist eat bugs, dark clouds of arctic mosquitos, cleaning pools just lacks that wow factor, mosquitos annoy caribou to death, the ecosystem would hiccup and move on, the invisible hand of mosquitos, nearly half of all people ever to live have been killed by mosquito disease, extirpation, the classic sterile insect technique has been used since the 1950s, you are the third person I’ve known whose had to sex fruit flies, “Ella’s Virgins”, fill…
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40: Mitochondrial Eve, Climate Change CRISPR, and Telephone Music
31 mei 2023 · 1 uur 51 min
Who is the most recent human we all share our DNA with? How can CRISPR be used to help the climate crisis? And what do telephones have to do with music? Lees meer
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Timestamps:
(00:00:00) Intro
(00:04:22) Mitochondrial Eve
(00:39:21) Climate Change CRISPR
(01:14:15) Telephone Music
(01:47:15) OutroImages we talk about:
Early Headphone Advertisement
We also learn about: Dartboard topics, Most recent common female ancestor, that’s actually the topic! endosymbiotically engulfing mitochondria, every animal now has this little friend, a fly gets caught in a photocopier and now we can’t live without it, mitochondrial DNA is only passed down the female line, mitochondrial DNA mutates once every 8,000 years, mitochondrial eve may have existed 150,000 years ago, eve wasn’t alone but she was our common ancestor, the eve of sperm whales was only 10,000 years ago, for squids it was 35,000 years, “won’t somebody think of the men”, Y Chromosomal Adam may have come from 210,000 years ago, concestor, simulating the concestor in a simulation, it’s not really a family tree it’s a messy web that we can draw a triangle around, GMOs vs Gene Editing, cool rad interspersed short palindromic repeats, tell them about how repairs happen! just some extracurricular learning, tom guesses cow farts in one, fartless cows without editing the cows themselves, we could eat less meet or just genome edit our way out of this, blue ribbon cow fart judge, is this a bandaid? making plants work harder to absorb CO2, photosynthesis labor laws, it’s not just “eat more carbon” it’s also grow deeper roots, “adapting the world to suit our misuse, rather than trying to improve our own behavior”, who needs pesticides when you have ugly plants, the scientific community is carefully thinking about these things, head phones, switchboard operators, that’s so gool, tom puts the podcast on hold, the devil invented hold music, hold music and temporal perception. no mus…
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Tom-nical Difficulties: Back in a Week! (And the week after that!)
25 mei 2023 · 2 min
Tom threw out his voice screaming about the new Zelda game (not actually) so we're delaying the next episode. But! We're not shifting the release schedule so the next episode will still come out the Thursday after! Lees meer
In the meantime, check out the episode of Veritasium that Tom researched and wrote!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMQbHMgK2rw
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39: The Pill, The 2 Highest Points on Earth, and Period Products
11 mei 2023 · 1 uur 53 min
What are the myths and facts around the hormonal birth control pill? Why are there two highest points on Earth, and does that teach us about our planet? And what are all the ways period products affect the world we live in? Lees meer
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Timestamps:
(00:00:00) Intro
(00:03:04) The Pill
(00:52:01) The 2 Highest Points on Earth
(01:28:28) Period Products
(01:49:10) OutroWe also learn about: Now that’s a rabbithole I can go down, taking half the pill makes you bi, LLE now played in health classes across the nation, the Ebers papyrus, they weren’t just using contraception they were communicating it, ancient Egyptian RAs, can’t get pregnant when you’re dead from mercury poisoning, the witch bull, bundling is the x games of abstinence, Tom definitely knows how the pill works, it’s not that men don’t know about women’s health it’s that women have to know about men’s health too, 1827 we discover the egg, 1843 confirmed conception happens when sperm enters the egg, the worlds fair of contraception, the American Birth Control League, Ella has a revelation, if I were a contraception and you took me I’d be an oral contraception, the original pill was 66x stronger to try to prove it was effective, bogus bad faith birth control studies, don’t well me, the Earth is squished because it spins, Team Everest vs Team Chimborazo, what the fuck is sea level, NERD I KNOW YOU’RE DOING MATH, nonbinary sex ed is just learning about mountains, 8,000 meters above Church, the air-sea interface, the metonic cycle of 19 years, carrying sea level, that’s what Tom gets for planning a joke, the geoid, a slide from Everest to Chimborazo, the death zone, our third ancient Egypt reference, Hypatia throws a pad, i got you a 100 rock that’s what you need right? the black hole of period history, you can’t abstinence periods, if you’ve used a sanitary belt join the discord! using WWII bandages, menstrual products vs the environment, the menstrual cup recommen…
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38: Ellen Weatherford, Can Fish Drown, and Real Pokemon
27 april 2023 · 1 uur 22 min
Special guest Ellen Weatherford joins us to ask: just how interesting can water and fish be? And are there any pokemon inspired by strange but real animals? Lees meer
Check out Ellen's podcasts "Just the Zoo of Us" and "Spellbound and Gagged"
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We also learn about: defining fish, “just be cool about it”, defining drowning, Ellen and Caroline teach Tom and Ella about where water oxygen comes from, history of breathing, where we’re going we don’t need bones, christmas tree worm, osmoregulation and ion gradients i love it and i wish i understood it better, keeping a salt backpack, gills and lungs, “sorry for the crisis”, I’ve been sleeping on fish, mmmmm actually gonna evolve back to the water, can I get a return on these lungs? but what we’re talking about is drowning. cold water more oxygen, arapaima, ding ding ding drowning yay! thousand mile dead zones, only some sharks need to move to breathe, Ram Ventilation vs Buccal Pumping at Coachella, buccal vs buckle, asmr buccal pumping, tuna need to swim or drown, letting arapaima rest in your arms, learning to love fish, Spiders and Commitment, alligators vs manatees, singing a B flat for gators, alligator snapping turtle, bringing Ellen to party, Wooper and Clodsire, the iberian ribbed newt, obliterating your future husband with a Whimsicott.
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WHO Definition of Drowning
Origin of Gills
2022 Gill Ion Regulation Paper
Evolution of Lungs
Lung Conversion to Swim Bladders
How Fish Deal with Salinity
Salmon Osmoregulation
Bullshark Osmoregulation
Cold Water Holds more Oxygen
Hypoxia Adaptations in the Amazon Rainforest
Air Breathing Arapaima
Gill Remodeling
Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone
Hypoxia Task Force
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37: Loving Toxicity, Future Warnings, and Better Burials
13 april 2023 · 2 uur
Is there more to learn than to fear from toxic animals? How would we warn future humans about present dangers? And what are better ways for us to be buried? Lees meer
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This ant can kill 1 million elephants, haven’t found a venomous mushroom… yet, a lot of my friends are toxic frogs, nom nom nom I eat poison, don’t touch shit, from none to death, the schmidt sting index, I want the data not the sting, what schmidts data was actually saying, some toxins don’t correlate with pain or lethality, venomous mammals are have in common that they’re disregarded, shrews beareth a cruel mind, arguably venomous slow lorises, expanding our definition of toxicity, letting tom load a joke, protecting the future from caroline’s savage burns, the waste isolation pilot plant, 573 known extinct languages, I can haz nuclear waste? skull and crossbones, cubed morphines, “this place is a message…this place is not a place of honor”, landscape of thorns, forboding blocks, it’s giving kiki, taking a photo on a spike for the gram, nucelar priesthood, ray cats, “they didnt really care what we said i think”, understanding our past to connect to our future, just leave a dvd of the mummy, we’ve been burying people for 120,000 years, inventing oven crypts in the 1800s, gotta workshop the name oven crypt, “I want to be in a big bone pit”, lots of places resuse plots, just walking past a pile of tombstones! blasting our relatives into the stratosphere, natural burials, fungus coffins, water cremation.
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Poison, Venom, Toxungens
Atlas Obscura Schmidt Sting Index
NPR Justin Schmidt Interview
First Sting Index Paper: Hemolytic Activities of Stinging Insect Venoms
Evolution of Stings and Sociality
NYTimes Interview with Schmidt
Venomous Mammals: A Review
Nekaris Paper on Loris Bites Between Each Other
Loris Venom for Communication
Loris Venom for Cobra Mimicry
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Technical Difficulties: Back Next Week!
6 april 2023 · 2 min
Apologies all, Ella's computer kicked the bucket, so we'll be back next week with a fresh episode! Lees meer
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36: Scientific Language Models, The Smell of Space, and Forgotten Olympic Events
23 maart 2023 · 1 uur 58 min
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Can Large Language Models be used for good in scientific fields? Could space smell... good? And what olympic events have we tried, abandoned, and completely forgotten about?
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Using ChatGPT to break up with your partner, it’s all very dry, you have to know the knowledge going in, LLMs are tools not databases, ChatGPT as a co-author, authorship carries accountability, Galactica was only public for 3 days, you can’t use galactica anymore happy??? racist protien AI, Protien and Chemistry Language Models are amazing, transparency with AI, the Bloom Project, ChatGPT emotionally ends the episode early, be funnier, in space no one can smell you smell, Venus smells like eggs, Tom volunteers to smell space, how smell works, don’t breathe if you’re driving, olfactory epithelium, 40 million olfactory neurons. a 40 million piece slimy jigsaw in my nose, asmr smells, 1 atom per cubic centimeter in space, Tim Peake’s answer, the smell of static, getting a refund for Tim’s answer, making ozone in space, sexy dying stars, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon, your grill makes star smell, raspberries at the center of our universe, a number so big it makes you laugh, the IRAM telescope, one of the largest interstellar molecules, I’ll show you Tim Peake! I was looking for amino acids but now I know what the black hole cloud might smell like, combining all the smells into a cocktail, who knows what the rest of space smells like! No, I’m going to fight you Caroline, Koribos wins the entire Olympics, the rise in wells, ancient pump up music, armor racing a car with 4 minds of its own, the 5 month long Olympics, putting the figure in figure skating, dueling flash mob, the wonder of demonstration sports, goal ball, Olympic tikto…
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Recast: Just The Zoo Of Us: Rats w/ Let's Learn Everything!
16 maart 2023 · 1 uur 11 min
Today we're rebroadcasting our appearance on Just the Zoo of Us as we prepare for an episode coming NEXT week for the MaxFunDrive! On this episode we combine our shows formats to bring you a full Topic, Question, and misc, all about one of the most misunderstood, intelligent, and rascally animals: the rat! Lees meer
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35: Don't DeExtinct the Dodo, Humans vs Computers, and Art Forgery
2 maart 2023 · 2 uur 2 min
Is it really possible to bring back the Dodo, and what even really happened in the first place? Are there any games left that humans can beat computers at, and why might that be okay? And what can art forgery tell us about art and the art world? Lees meer
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The TinkerToy Tic Tac Toe Computer
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The Cherished Dodo, tinction, what does a dodo taste i mean look like, dodo art telephone, only 1 full skeleton, actualy lots of things die this way, invasive species also killed the dodo, Alice in Wonderland’s trendsetting the Dodo, Caroline’s clearly a Dodo person, Dodo DNA, Jurassic Park was a Documentary, I hope to die in a funny way, bringing the Bucardo back, the first De-extinction, and the first Double Extinction, DNA vaults, the nicobar pigeon, Cloacas are “Fun” according to Ella, let’s reintroduce the Dodos too why not, “bring a little bit of magic back to the mauritious”, ancient egyptian tic tac toe, the Shannon Number, The Mechanical Turk, TuroChamp, Chess was the Drosophila of AI, bad AI predictions, Deep Blue vs Kasparov, The Googolplex of Go games, Dr Fill the Crowssword AI, 100% Rock Papers Scissor Win Rate, Poker AI, this really cool game called Superluminauts, what’s “unfair” in AI? the power of art comes from yourself, the art of forgery, Han van Meegeren, Dodo in Gearl with a Pearl Earring we all make the same dumb joke, new Vermeer, don’t arrest me it’s just a forgery, there could still be Elmyr de Hory forgeries, F is for Fake, “if my work hangs in a museum long enough, it becomes real”, Tom makes a totally normal and not embaressing mixup of Van Gogh and DaVinci, how to spot a forgery, carbon dating forgeries, just look at it closely, identifying craquelure, mass spectrometry, so much of this is just about money, Salvator Mundi Ship of Theseus, were these reviews forged? Go check! the laughing people
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NHM: Dodo …
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34: The Replication Crisis, Human Senses, and Pride Flags
16 februari 2023 · 1 uur 57 min
Is psychology doomed, or could the reproducibility crisis a good thing? How many senses do we really have? And what's the history behind all the pride flags you see? Lees meer
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Maintenance Phase's Episode on Brian Wansink's Downfall
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We’re already learning! god i hate the stanford prison experiment, the four horsemen of the reproducibility crisis, the file drawer effect, honestly this horseman sounds like capitalism, what if we stopped saying “statistically significant”, Brian Wansink’s food studies and The Grad Student Who Never Said “No”, Brian this is a joke right? P-hacking the topic itself, failure to replicate isn’t the end of the world, “I Read ALL 100 Replications”, differences between the social and biological sciences, D.A.R.E for science! pre-registering a meta-analysis on pre-registration, the many good horses that work against the apocalypse, my eyes are named Dex and Sid, gustation, grilling my friends about guessing the 5 flavors, taste subclasses, touching our fingers together for half an hour, different receptors for light and hard touch, referred pain, feeling temperature in our bones, we have more cold receptors than heat, don’t test proprioception if you’re driving, it’s 10 o clock do you know where your limbs are?, the real sixth sense, losing proprioception, interoception, the holiday paradox, animal senses, ancient Egypt invented the rainbow flag, the RGB values of flags, Gilbert Baker, Harvey Milk “we needed something beautiful, something from us”, volunteers coming together to construct the first flag, oh they couldn’t just amazon a flag they had to make it, the pink is just impractical guys, the mile long flag, the Philadelphia Eagles Pride Flag, one flag to rule them all, lavender menaces, lesbian flag losing its lips.
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Estimating the Reproducibility of Psychological Science
Nature Survey on Reproducibility Cris… -
33: Immortality, Before Trees, and Emojis 💩
2 februari 2023 · 1 uur 48 min
Is immortality possible in humans or other animals? What was on Earth before trees? And what can we learn from emoji?🤔 Lees meer
Things we talk about:
The First Emoticons
Kurita's Emojis
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We also learn about:
Halloween in January, stories of immortality, the epic of gilgamesh, MR BEAST GRANTS IMMORTALITY IF YOU STAY UP FOR 6 DAYS, the first story of facing AND accepting mortality, teen alexander the immortal, shooting down 9 suns, making your own immortality serum, spoiler alert we don’t find immortality in this topic, the first blood transfusion, oh nevermind not really, testicle rejuvination solves all problems, how do we die? programmed death and antagonistic pliotropy, accumulating insurmountable damage, the Hayflick Limit, shoe telomeres, four nobel laureates behind atlos labs (aaaand also jeff bezos), we’ve never recorded a naked mole rat dying from old age, transdifferentiation in the immortal jellyfish, surprise immortality! the slow and old greenland shark, having to go through puberty and pay taxes is not worth immortality, “I sort of like that the animals are winning, and we haven’t quite got there yet”, you’d make a great tree, Caroline makes us define a tree, trees are “a human concept based on visual criteria”, NOTHING EXISTS, trees put oxygen in the atmosph- wait no that was algae, Caroline wants our bewilderment and fear in the questions, the Cambrian explosion, fossils of a tree fight, sharks are older than trees, what are these spires of life, cockroach t-rex, it really is the second Halloween episode, lovecraftian Earth, letters are pictures, emojis are language, our most used emojis, emoticons, codepoints, the first emoji, standarized emoji, no more flag emojis, people assume the internet keeps records of itself.
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Royal Forestry Society Tree Definition
Encyclopedia Britannica Tree Definition
Natrual History Museum First Trees
World's First Tree Reconstructed
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32: The Ozone Success Story, Turning Heads, and Eurovision
19 januari 2023 · 1 uur 52 min
What's the story of how we successfully saved the ozone? Why and how can owls turn their heads around, and who else can? And can Ella convert Tom to the wonder that is Eurovision? Lees meer
Listen to Ella's Full Eurovision Playlist
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We also learn about: defining ozone, not wrong but not right, the ozone layer is miles thick and not full of ozone, the sun is a deadly laser, tom feels stupid about the ozone, accidentally finding out about the ozone layer depleting, the dobson ozone spectrophotometer, “being an ignorant physicist”, this is why we monitor things, we need more metaphors actually, CFCs and HCFCs, the impact of humans on the planet, WARNING: MAY CAUSE DEATH FOR ALL FUTURE HUMANS, wait legal proceedings were slow??? supersonic flights between france and the UK only, you’re doing colonialism on US ACTUALLY, 198 parties ratified the Montreal Protocol, early action is important, why don’t we talk about this enough!!! thank your local environmental researcher today, owl 360 no scope, side-eyed Tom, pigeon slander, side and front facing, owls don’t have eyeballs, cone of death, I love it when there’s a but, the guiness book of world records is dumb, breaking the rule of 7, why hang upside down, the first Eurovision was formal, no english songs allowed, the big 5, bicameral voting, Britain’s losing streak, “nobody hates the british entry more than the british”, international politics and Eurovision, it’s like We Didn’t Start the Fire, “what else would we sing about”, it’s always been political, Ella’s favorite entries, Abba surprises Tom, how eurovision changes with the times, from ballrooms to tiktok, our future plugs.
Sources:
National Geographic: Ozone Layer
EPA: Basic Ozone Layer Science
UNEP: Ozone and You
J. C. Farman, B. G. Gardiner & J. D. Shanklin, 1985 (Paper)
The Evolution of Policy Responses to Stratospheric Ozone Depletion (1989 Paper)
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31: End of Year Q&A 2022
29 december 2022 · 1 uur 40 min
To round out the year we learn about the most interesting thing: each other! We talk about the process of researching and writing an episode, future sciences and science fiction, and laugh and cry reflecting on our favorite things from 2022. Lees meer
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We also learn about: our favorite topics, this is why we don’t do topics on colors, topic lists, science ruining movies, science is just a job, anything goes as long as you don’t explain it to me, hacking the mainframe, the one flaw in the big bang theory, how do we research and when is it done? asking yourself questions, researching vs writing, research wormholes and topic duds, Caroline’s natural defense colors, London and NYC recommendations, religion and science, dealing with burnout, defeating Ella in battle, how we record, our Hollywood writers room, start a podcast if only to try, MUNA and Stromae and AJR, our favorite things this year, Everything Everywhere and Elf, Fortnite and Pokemon, Our Flag Means Death and Succession and Fleabag and Craig of the Creek and Dragula, Yotsuba, Two Headed Calf, making ourselves cry, Scoob & Shag, pandan and coke zero, our favorite pokemon, I am displeased with your lack of brevity, how each of us takes over the world, our personal take and our interest is more important than topic overlap, futue sciences, the birth of a topic, projected to finish everything soon so we can stop talking to each other, asmr speedrunning, today's topic is this pad of sticky notes, our podcast spotify wrapped, what we’re looking forward to (Breath of the Wild 2), really dumb content.
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30: The HaLearnDay Spectacular! 2022
15 december 2022 · 1 uur 27 min
On a very special holiday episode, Tom, Caroline, and Ella give the gift of learning! We've wrapped up our favorite fun facts to give to each other, and even gotten a few presents from some special guests! Lees meer
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We also learn about: the the gin craze, no free gin advertisements, gin street and beer street, wrapping paper foley work, pumpkin toadlet balance, silly UK laws, yeah and maybebeallowedtoshootacrossbowatacathedral, keep your kite flying private, kite footloose, beached whales for the queen, suspicious salmon makes sense, honey tummys, more grenades on mars by 2025, dinosaur time breaks caroline’s brain, hey these brussels sprouts aren’t bad now, brussels sprouts hipsters, Britain’s dedicated tv popularity analyst, tom regifts a fun fact, and now I’m thinking about animal genitals, Cotesia and Drosophala: like a good cheese and a fine wine.
Vine Pair: The Gin Craze
History: The Gin Craze
William Hogarth’s Beer Street and Gin Lane
Smithsonian Magazine: Pumpkin Toadlet
Semicircular canal size constrains vestibular function in miniaturized frogs
Insect Orientation: Stay on Course with the Sun
NIH: Vestibular System
Wright Brothers Flight
Odd laws you may unknowingly break
Legislation.org: Salmon Act 1986
Bee Bubbling
Human Objects on Mars
Why it's Hard to Land on Mars
Perseverance's 10 Million Names
Phoenix Lander Mini DVD
Wright Flyer Cloth on Mars
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Stegosaurus
The Brussel Sprouts Renaissance
TV Pickup
TV Pickup Quotes
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29: What's in a Scientific Name, How Many Cells are in a Human, and What the British Museum Stole
1 december 2022 · 1 uur 52 min
What is the science of scientific naming, and could it actually be life saving? How many cells are in a human body, and why is it important to know? And how exactly did the British Museum... "acquire" all these artifacts? Lees meer
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We also learn about: what does tom smell like? naming is hard for computer science, naming is a science, reading 12 million paper titles by hand, single use acronyms, polynomial naming, Ranunculus mother of dragons, the dino hip mixup, smooth transitions, the fermium wars, we all know what happened to element 102, berkelium californium americium, should we name elements after living people, Ella is the only true Swiftie, half of all exoplanets are named Kepler, the old Taylor can’t come to the phone right now, why? she’s a millipede, Ella will get an answer, humans have 1 cell technically, c elegans has exactly 1031 cells, don’t embarrass yourself by saying how many cells are in a mouse, we enter the wheels and doors debate, Ella sperm fact rick rolls us, the number of kinds of cells, tom is bad at math, every time a scientist questions a number an angel gets its wings, Livers Georg, Ella is heartbroken we don’t have a number, what’s the point of counting cells? the British Museum keeps 99% of things in the disney vault, offering a replica of the rosetta stone instead, Britain legally cannot return items without government approval, all the stuff we never knew about Moai statues, what does queen Victoria need with a Moai statue, her majesty declares finders keepers, actualy these stolen things mean as much to Britain now, most Britains want the items returned, there is so much to learn from this!
Sources:
Judith Winston's Review of Binomial Nomenclature
The Growth of Acronyms in the Scientific Literature
The Long and Short of Abbreviations (UA Medical Acronym)
Dinosaur Hip Naming Mixup
How Many Named Species are Valid?
Review of the Transfermium Wars
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28: Cerebral Organoids, Are Cats Liquids, and The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread
17 november 2022 · 1 uur 39 min
How can you study a brain without a brain? In what ways is a cat actually like a liquid? And why do we say The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread? Lees meer
Images we Discuss:
Rat Brain
Cats Sitting in Things
Bread Crumbs
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We also learn about: brains are complex and hard to access, organoids, organettes, organittos, induced pluripotent stem cells are cool, Madeline Lancaster, DNA is amazing, scientific serendipity, try to make a brain and accidentally make a heart, human neurons in rat brains, ethical concerns, that does not make Caroline feel better, brain-on-a-chip, dish brain, great words, Pong, sentience, liquid cats, solid cats, gas cats, Slime, Ig Nobel, first make you laugh then make you think, atoms, God made cats a solid so you can pet them, mountains flow, Ella does not, the joy of the surface, scientists communicating science well, bread was invented in 1954, bread archaeology, cooking is a kind of fossilization, archaeobotanist, that’s what it means to specialize in bread, throwing it all into the bread business, SLICED BREAD IS MADE HERE, sound, sensible, and a progressive refinement, bread innovation, twin style bread, Caroline is not a world leader in bread innovation, a delicious stick of butter, idioms, a manifestation of the peculiar, irreversible binomial, to sell something for a song, don’t shit in the blue cupboard, the burnt bread crumbs of language.
Sources:
First Brain Organoids Paper
Stem Cells @ Lunch Digested Podcast
The Use of Brain Organoids
First Electrically Active Brain Organoids
Human Neurons Transplanted Into Rat Brain Study
Human Neuron in Rat Brain Image
Brain-On-A-Chip Review
Neurons Play Pong---
On the Rheology of Cats
Ted Talk on the Rheology of Cats
PBS: Are Cats Liquid?
Crustal Melting and the Flow of Mountains
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NPR on 14,000 Year Old Bread
Paper on Analyzing the Oldest Bread
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27: Zoologist Ash Campbell, Kleptoparasitism, and Australia's Best Animal
3 november 2022 · 1 uur 27 min
Today our guest Ashlen Campbell asks us: how do you stop a seagull from stealing your chips? And what can that teach us about the wild world of kleptoparasitism? Lees meer
Our Favorite Ash Videos: Erythrism, Blathers Exposed
Ash's Kleptoparasitism List
Ash's Follow Recommendations: @luccasbiohub @drkyliesoanes @zoe_kean_sci @sarawebbscience @astrokirsten
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We also learn about: Majored in zoology minored in chips, temperature effects on fish, dam spreadsheets, mosquitos don’t like skrillex, bee gom jabbar test, the beach scene, Miriam Rothschild & Theresa Clay coined Kleptoparasitism, bullying birds to throw up, not having a chip and getting hit by Ash’s ford fiesta, peacrabs have to steal to survive, messy definitions are interesting, stealing from siblings isn’t kleptoparasitism, neon cuckoo bees steal candies from babies, snails grabbing food from your throat, fossils caught stealing, mother feed me, taking care of other fishes babies, “he’s such a good father”, sneak spawning, The Real House Nest Husbands of Chesapeake Bay, swat raiding bees, kleptothermy, the answer is a seagull economy, kleptoplasty is eating batteries, floral larsony, hyenas change their sleep schedules to avoid thieving lions, green goblin otter hostage situations, eat worse chips, weighing the complexities of stealing, studying chip stealing, only you can stare at seagulls, the adorable and horny antechinus, “nothing here is okay”, nitpicking jurassic park, am I misrepresnting data? at least I have rainbow fish in animal crossing. being wrong on the internet, erudoot.
Sources:
Fleas, flukes, & cuckoos; a study of bird parasites
Iyengar’s Kleptoparasitism Review
Kleptobiosis
Pea crab (Pinnotherida)
Neon cuckoo bee (Thyreus nitidulus)
Wentletrap (Epitonium clathratulum)
Brachiopod fossils
Barn Owl Nest Switching
Three Spined Stickleback
Lestrimelitta Niitkib (toxin producing bee)
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26: Pain, Vampiric Animals, and Penny Dreadfuls
20 oktober 2022 · 1 uur 48 min
How do we define pain, and what animals can feel it? How similar are vampires to real vampiric animals? And what are penny dreadfuls and how were they actually... good? Lees meer
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We also learn about: pain is bad, but pain is good, what animals can feel pain, if they can feel kink pleasure from pain they can feel pain, it’s time to define pain for you guys, ella swoops in on a Tom joke, pain is like art, the international association for the study of pain, a funny example of pain, nuance baby! the 2 nail people is a great couples halloween costume, Descartes' pain theory started off so well, nociceptors, how do you test pain? injured flies, are we JigSaw? injecting bee venom into fish, ASC change fish pain laws, vampires are found in almost every culture, we need to protect the ice caps or the vampires will get out, hematophagy and sanguivores, vampire bugs and fish and birds, the fake vampire squid that eats poop, monogamous but false vampire bats, vampire bats are more beautiful and there’s a reason why, super speed super climbing and super stealth bats, blood heat vision with pit organs, biting with incisors not canines, blood is a thin gruel, vampirism is a radical dietary lifestyle, bats help each other out, barfing blood for friends, Twilight has the most scientifically accurate vampires, Ella bamboozles us, as literacy booms so does the need for cheap exciting stories, Varney came before Dracula and invented the tropes, The String of Pearls: a Romance (allegedly) and the origin of Sweeney Todd, tag yourself I’m women with daggers, 45% of victorian britain was under 20, children reading books to each other, the literature of rascaldom, half-penny dreadfullers, how many books were actually popular at their time, our horror recommendations, Junji Ito.
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The Nature and Science of Pain - Pain Australia
A Biological Substrate for Somatoform Disorders
Are We Wrong to Assume Fish Ca… -
25: 🎂 The Timeline of Timekeeping, Origins of Speech, and the Birthday of Birthdays
6 oktober 2022 · 1 uur 42 min
It's the show's birthday! And we're going to celebrate with LEARNING! How much do we really know about the history of keeping time? When did human speech first arise, and how would we even figure that out? And when did the concept of birthdays have its birthday? Lees meer
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We also learn about: Your favorite podcast on your favorite torso, the blind watchmaker, time technology is not like iphone upgrades, Ancient or Recent, France’s decimal clocks, counting knots on a ship, of course people cared about keeping time back then, escapements brought us TikTok, the not so timey wimey etymology of clock, putting clock inventions in the right order, we had sundials in the 1800s, you’re holding like 20 different iphones, redefining the second, ephemris time was a “ridiculous decision”, keeping time in space without the Earth, the importance of NTP, UTC is confusing fairly for everyone, what is speech? language vs speech, are there speech fossils? diaphragm is the only one we don’t talk about, laryngeal descent theory, teaching monkeys to talk, is this theory good science? “you guys are so smart”, speech research is so multi-disciplinary, you love a great review, deconstructing the theory, the reconstruction was so bad the mouth wouldn’t have been able to swallow, they forgot to check other animals for descended larynxes oops, speech may have developed waaay earlier, bodies ready for speech vs brains ready for speech, research beef, quoting “mic drop”, “i thought the answer would be simple and i was really really wrong”, one of the hardest problems in science, the birthday of birthdays, what do you need for a birthday? defining birthdays by caesium, Wurdi Youang, pharaoh “birthdays” being born as gods, celebrating my birthday by driving away evil spirits, celebrating the mother on birthdays, i brought you “pure intentions” for your birthday, Claudia Severa’s birthday invitation tablet, the first birthday candle…
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24: Self Experimentation, Amputation Archaeology, and Learning to Love PowerPoint
22 september 2022 · 1 uur 44 min
What are the pros and perils of self experimentation? What archaeological clues do we have to the first human amputation? And why should we actually learn to love PowerPoint? Lees meer
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We also learn about: Santorio Santorio, sitting in a chair for 30 years, two pieces of toast, 1500s diet culture, insensible perspiration, basal metabolism, the origin of sleep studies, cave dwellers and time perception, he likes caves a little too much, sleep cycle, stomach ulcers, rats in straight jackets taking ice baths like david blaine, drinking bacteria broth and winning a nobel prize, scientists will literally drink rotten milk to get a paragraph in a paper, reaching 631mph in a rocket chair, shout out to David Hunter, setting research back several decades, venereal disease, tropical hookworm, giving yourself worms for science, do not try this at home, Caroline always starts with Egypt, ancient prosthetics, Egyptian healthcare, what is a human, 1.8 million year old tooth, Georgia is a state not a country, tackling misinformation, human remain hotspot, the earliest surgery, trepanation, ancient community care, “7 days ago, that was the end of my script”, modern humans, medical knowledge is older than we realise, we’re still figuring anthropology out, Ella loves powerpoint, sweating bullets, God named powerpoint, overhead transparencies, Caroline doesn’t know what an overhead projector is, Tom and Ella are getting old, Edward Tufty is evil, Tom Lumperson is coming for Edward Tufty, everyone is a presenter, accessibility, an unfeasible culture of productivity, David Burn, Tufty vs Burn, Powerpoint Art, Powerpoint theatre, Powerpoint comedy, Tiktok is actually Powerpoint, Powerpoint as a programming language, beautiful things in the wildest places.
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23: Plastic's Past, Imperfect Pitch, and the Dumb History of Generation Naming
8 september 2022 · 1 uur 47 min
What is the history of plastic, and what could the future hold? Why is perfect pitch, not so perfect, and do any animals have it? And how on Earth did we end up with these meaningless names for generations? Lees meer
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We also learn about: what is plastic? plastics are an invasive species, natural plastics, explosions are at the root of a lot of science, guncotton, oops we made it explosive, should have bought those 666 horses, patent drama, ella slumdog millionaires celloid tennis balls, flammable films, pronouncing bakelite, carrier bags vs plastic bags, the great pacific garbage patch, plastic quiz, all plastics made still exist, the future of plastics, testing our perfect pitch, Tom interviews Sidney Gish, being able to tell home depot paint swatches doesn’t make you a master architect, my brain is wet wet mud, the 1 in 10,000 number is bogus, guessing sine waves vs pianos, the Levitan Effect, more people have pitch memory than perfect pitch, perfect pitch in animals, dolphin octave mirroring, mosquitos matching pitch to mate, let’s bone doooooown, playing happy birthday for rats, describing happy birthday like an alien, perfect pitch RAMPANT among birds, birds understand spectal vocoder music, what is a generation? the origins of generation names, Strauss-Howe generational theory, retrofitting a logical system from a random idea, backfilling generations to arthurian times, THEY WERE PLAYWRIGHTS, there should never just be One center for research, a london doctor once said…, generational character archetypes, social theory shouldn’t sound like a D&D campaign, millennial and their avocado toast, why don’t millennials like Blue’s Clues anymore? people have always been complaining about “lewd wicked children”, scientists vs the pew research center.
Sources:
The Science Museum: The Age of Plastic
Essentials of Polymer Science and Engineering
UN: From Birth to Ban: A History of the Plastic Shopping …
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A Big Announcement...!
6 september 2022 · 7 min
A very special announcement! Lees meer
Episodes we recommend for new listeners:
1: Time Illusions, Electric Bees, and Fakespeares
5: The History of Pregnancy Tests, The Middlest Size, and FanFiction
19: The Science of Gay, How Many Songs Fit in DNA, and Niche Sports
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22: Magnetic Mysteries, The Real Trolley Problem, and Hitchbot
25 augustus 2022 · 1 uur 42 min
How do animals sense magnetic fields? Why was the first Trolley Problem written? And who was Hitchbot? Lees meer
Images we talk about:
- Hitchbot with Santa
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We also learn about: the first compasses, captain McDonalds, “epistemologically unacceptable”, magnetic bacteria, magnetic dip, pooping north, the table of good boys, let’s do a study, it’s more intersting that dogs Sometimes poop north, alignment during excretion, I’d rather study dogs than leopards, we don’t know how animals sense magnetism, the beaks of birds the brains of seaturtles the tummies of honeybes and the nasal passages of rainbowtrouts, four years from landing on the moon and we haven’t put a magnet on a bird yet, quantumn eyeballs, the European Robin is famously racist, Phillipa Foot, putting hypotheticals to the test, mice actors, hypotheticals don’t predict real behavior, Foot’s paper was about abortion, you know the hippocratic oath is pretty cool actually, do no harm is not in the oath, the self driving trolley problem, dogs vs cats, ethics boards on hypotheticals, the real car trolley problem is more nuanced, a robot with a thumb, Ella beats Tom to the joke, can robots trust humans, hitchbot meets santa, hitchbot loves Ten Bundy, have you seen this robot? how do we feel when a robot dies, so thoughtful of review corner to be at the end, and… some exciting news???
Sources:
Myths in Magnetosensation
Magnetic Bacteria
Aviation Skybrary on Magnetic Dip
Dogs Poop North
Leopards Poop North
The Arctic Tern's Migration
Magnetoreception remains a Mystery
Finding the Magnetoreception Organ
Quantumn Eyeballs
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The First Trolley Problem
Britannica on the Trolley Problem
Of Mice, Men, and Trolleys: Hypothetical Judgment Versus Real-Life Behavior in Trolley-Style Moral Dilemmas
Medical Ethics and the Trolley Problem
Self-driving Car Trolley Problem
MIT's Moral Machine Experiment
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Web Archive of hitchBOT's Website
The Vessel on hit…
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21: Paleontologist Evelyn Vollmer, Figuring out the Age of the Earth, and What Defines a Dinosaur
11 augustus 2022 · 1 uur 12 min
How old did Aristotle think the Earth was? What makes a dinosaur a dinosaur? And how did our guest get into paleontology? Lees meer
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We also learn about: getting started in paleontology, shooting lasers at fossils, artistotle thought the earth was infinitely old, getting the 6,000 number from bible family tree math, it’s infinitely old because because, melting rocks is science, Lord Kevlin’s real name was William Thompson??? every big name in science wanted to answer this question, Darwin was embaressed and deleted his tweet about the age of the Earth, “there’s so much we don’t know, it’s hilarious”, the rock cycle, Patteron fought for lead safety, thousands millions and billions, it took 4 billion years for a species to know the age of the Earth, what is a dinosaur? “cladistics is confusing as hell”, we were naming dinosaursas as we were discovering them, rebranding dinosaurs, aquatic and flying reptiles aren’t dinosaurs, Taphonomy, who hasn’t fused their vertebra during a mating ritual, coprolite, this poop is going to inspire the shit out of someone, being okay with not using absolutes on tiktok, the new jurassic parks are trash.
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Aristotle's Age of the Earth
Kevlin's Age of the Earth
Clair Patterson And The Age Of The Earth
How to Calculate the Age of the Earth
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Evelyn's TikTok Recommendations
Ariel
Myria Perez
Holly Simon
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Test Ep 2: Bugs on Drugs, How Much Pi do we Need, and the Blackest Black
28 juli 2022 · 1 uur 11 min
What happens when you gives bugs drugs? How many digits of pi do we actually need? And what is the drama behind the blackest black? Lees meer
Images we talk about:
- Spider Webs on Various Drugs
- Graph of Pi Approximations Across History
- The Redemption of Vanity, MIT's Blackest Black
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We also learn about: how do you give a bee cocaine? cocaine is a natural insecticide, the waggle dance, actually im not going to dance it’s embaressing, “I want to be a bee so badly”, bees get withdrawl, some caterpillars are insensitive to cocaine, weaponizing caterpillars, giving spiders drugs because you’re lazy, charlotte’s web blood spider drug tests, caffeine isn’t really that bad for us, “morals will not stop humans from doing stupid things”, maybe giving elephants 3,000x LSD is bad science, cheap date flies, some animals want to get high, my favorite drug is math, what is pi? ancient pi estimates, 62.8 trillion digits of pi, how many digits of pi do nasa use? we could work at nasa as a package deal, by the 1400s we had enough pi to get us to space, and by the 1600s enough for the universe, selfish of pi to have so many numbers, why do we keep counting, tom gets an existential crisis, we all get an existential crisis, the bean, vantablack, how can you have a color?, the pinkest pink, paying someone to flip them off, the new blackest black, 99.995% light absorption, the power of productive spite, um thaaanks.
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Bees on Cocaine
Caterpillar Cocaine
Weaponizing Caterpillars
The Spider Web Drug Study
Giving an Elephant Too Much LSD
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How Much PI Nasa Uses
Approximations of Pi over Time
How Much PI Nasa Uses
Record Number of Pi Digits
NPR on Record Pi Count
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Vantablack's Copyright Controversy
The Pinkest Pink
Anish Kapoor's Middle Finger
The NEW Blackest Black from MIT
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20: The Math of Conspiracy Theories, Why is Pluto not a Planet, and Animal Art
14 juli 2022 · 1 uur 46 min
If all these conspiracy theories were real, what are the statistical odds they'd be kept secret? Why did Pluto get demoted from planethood? And can animals make art? Lees meer
Images we talk about:
- Pierre’s Brassau’s Art
- Erased Dekooning Drawing
- Sean Thomas’ “Case Study”
- Monkey Selfie
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We also learn about: planes fly over Ella’s house? coincidence??, the conspiracy leak formula, gish gallop, the Tom & Caroline Show conspiracy, moon landing photos, the real conspiracy of climate change is with Exxon and Shell, pluto didn’t change - the definition of a planet changed, pluto is half the width of the US, what is a planet???, planets need a cleared orbit, the IAU assembly, it’s neptune’s fault! Ella quietly having an existential crisis, Mike Brown - the man who killed Pluto, why aren’t we talking about Eris?, what if we had 12 planets?, Ceres was also demoted like Pluto 200 years ago, the 8 planets are what aliens would want to visit, the kuiper belt isn’t packed with objects like you might imagine, Mike Brown’s humbleness of giving up Eris’ planethood, dwarf planet pokerap, what is animal art? what is art? Ella and Caroline write this topic apparently, Pierre Brassau, Erased DeKooning Drawing, enrichment, Naruto vs. Slater vs. Wikipedia, Lynda Barry and Howard Ikemoto on children’s art, everything is art!
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On the Viability of conspiratorial beliefs
Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures
The PRISM Conspiracy
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
The FBI Foresnic Scandal
Study on Disbelief of Moon Landing Photos
Climate Change
Shell and Exxon Climate Change Conspiracy
HBomberGuy's Vaccine Video
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Library of Congress: Why is Pluto No Longer a Planet?
BBC: Why is Pluto No Longer a Planet?
Washington Post: Ever wondered why Pluto is no longer a planet?-
NASA: Pluto Overview
IAU 2006 General Assembly
Mike Brown, Pluto Killer
Metzger’s Thoughts on Pluto and what makes a Planet
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Pierre Bras…
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19: The Science of Gay, How Many Songs Fit in DNA, and Niche Sports
30 juni 2022 · 1 uur 58 min
What is the nuanced science behind homosexuality in animals and humans? Is there a single gay gene? No. No absolutely not. But how many songs could you fit into a gram of DNA, and why would you want to? And what are some of the most niche sports and why are they still so great? Lees meer
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We also learn about: Tom is an ally, 1500 observed gay animals from shrimps to apes, the adelie penguin story hidden for 100 years, dynamic region translation, dolphins are messed up, it’d be weird NOT to talk about gay animals, how is gay behavior evolutionarily beneficial? nuanced questions and bad actors, the myth of the gay gene, genes are complicated and so is being gay, the rage inducing paper that inspired this topic, Caroline’s brain is loading big numbers, what would you put write into dna?, making 70 billion copies of your own book, what’s a floppy drive?, the first iPod, the cost of DNA storage, the double but, different types of memory, storing data for longer than ipods will be remembered, we’re not allowed to take the piss out of these sports, roller derby, is throwing a goat any weirder than a sheep’s bladder or pig skin?, reaching your peak in your 40s, the sport popes have played, tickles that jiggly knowledge thing in my skull.
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Homosexual Behaviour in Animals: An Evolutionary Perspective
An Alternative Hypothesis For the Evolution of Same-Sex Sexual Behaviour in Animals
A Genetic Study of Male Sexual Orientation
The Gay Gene?
The Proof Against the Gay Gene
Genetics of Sexual Behavior
The Bad Article that Inspired this Topic
Pink News Analysis of The Bad Article that Inspired this Topic
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DNA Data Review
The First DNA Data, Microvenus
The First Book in DNA
Additional Review of DNA Data
200MB of DNA Storage with OK GO
The OK GO Music Video Stored in DNA
NYTimes on the First iPod
Testing the Stability of DNA Data
DNA Data Storage for 2 Million Years
The Time it Takes to Write DNA Dat…
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18: Radiocarbon Revolution, Space Babies, and Nail Polish
16 juni 2022 · 1 uur 58 min
You've probably heard of Carbon Dating, but how are Astronomy, Biology, and Nuclear Physics involved? What are the problems with having babies in space, and how many animals have had babies in space? (surprisingly more than you'd think!) And what is the history of nail polish, and more importantly, our relationship with painting nails? Lees meer
Videos we talk about:
- Mice in Space
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We also learn about: counting the rings in a carbon atom, Dendrochronology, Space & Life & Radioactivity, unstable tennis balls, a surprise callback to last episode, shoutout to baltimore! oh shit we can carbon date anything!! Ella is good at guessing, a rewrite of history??? OES, the real carbon dating was friendship, definitely points, what do you name a space baby? the ISS is not a safe form of contraception, sea urchin space sex, freeze dried mouse sperm resembling instant coffee, space sushi, space babies look cuter, jellyfish that don’t know the right way up, but snails do! how humans might evolve in space, Disney’s Moon Mouse Colony, what the moon teaches about Earth, Polish vs Varnish, our favorite color, fashion always goes in cycles, mummified pharaohs with nail polish, Van Gogh wasn’t color blind, he just had cheap paints, Mary Cobb was a girl boss if you will, car paint gave us nail polish, wear nail polish if you want to!
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History of Radiocarbon Dating
Radiocarbon Revolution
Janet Ambers on Chronological Methods
Dendrochronology
Fritz Schweingruber on Dendrochronology
Cosmic Rays and Carbon Dating
Libby's Nobel Address
Libby Carbon Dates Everything
Carbon Dating going 75,00 years Back
Overly Dramatic Carbon Dating Error Article
OES (Ostritrch Egg Shell)
Carbon Dating gets Updated
IntCal20 Calibration Curve
Emilie Jager on Geochronology
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Fertilization in Microgravity
Sea Urchin Space Sperm
Freeze Dried Mouse Sperm
Sperm Count in Space Rats
Mouse Space Baby Development
Jellyfish in Space
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17: Cosmic Rays, Eye Colors, and the Most Disliked Instrument
2 juni 2022 · 1 uur 25 min
What exactly are cosmic rays and how do they affect us? Why do humans have so many different eye colors? And why does everyone hate the triangle so much? Lees meer
Images we talk about:
- The Sistrum
- The Angel Battle of the Bands
- The Triangle in the Painting
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We also learn about: pions and tiny particles with delightful names, see the rave of space, OMG particle or the What What What particle, galactic cosmic rays, anomalous cosmic rays, shower of particles, lighting a lightbulb in space, highschool physics, auroral lights, lightning scientists, speedrunning glitches, DOTA_Teabag's single event upset, airplane failure, voter fraud, red eyes, albinism, squirrels with big ol’ baby blues, America vs the rest of the world, purple eyes, epithelium, collagen, melanin, the tingle effect, ella’s piercing blue eyes, Tom’s calming brown eyes, turn your eyes blue by drinking ocean water, climate, eye colour is a new adaptation, get that paternity test guys, everyone hates the triangle, triangle historian debate, angel music battle, Garden of Earthly Delights Where’s Waldo? the triangle belongs in hell, mmm this triangle sure sounds good, the sneaky triangle concerto, you can fill violin with 1,000 baked beans! Braham’s triangle drop, creole and brazilian folk triangle music I’m not like other girls I like the triangle, find the triangles in the world.
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Cern on Cosmic Rays
Make your own Cosmic Ray Detector
The OMG Particle
Clive Saunders' Cosmic Ray Lightning Theory
DOTA_Teabag's Super Mario Speed Run
Flight Report for Cosmic Ray Incident
Cosmic Ray Election Error
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American Association of Opthamology on Eye Colors
Percentages of Eye Colors
Why Blue eyes are Blue
Evolution of Eye Color
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TV Tropes "Triangles are the Worst Instrument"
James Blades' Encyclopedia Entry on the Triangle
Mark Berry's "From Angels to Orchestra" pt 1
Mark Berry's "From Angels to Orchestra" pt 2
The Percussion E…
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Test Ep 1: Machine Learning, Caterpillar Memories, and Love Island
19 mei 2022 · 1 uur
This week we're releasing our very first test episode of the podcast! What are neural networks? Do butterflies remember being caterpillars? And what is Love Island? Lees meer
Content Warning: Mentions of suicide in the Misc Topic
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We also learn about: what is a dog? stem cell hotel, the giant squid axon, neural networks will be walking and talking soon, why is it called deep learning? Deep blue and Watson, love island AI, Amazon’s biased hiring AI, black hole imaging, completely meat circle, Janelle Shane, Getting flagged on the street to answer if butterflies remember, caterpillar soup, classically trained caterpillars, the y tube, tickling chrysalises, the rules of love island, casa amor, beauty airplane.
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NYTimes AI Hype
Amazon’s Hiring AI
Black Hole Machine Learning Algorithm
Janell Shane’s AI Weirdness
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Caterpillar Memory Experiment
Chrysalis Memories Experiment
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16: The Trouble with Honeybees, Why Repeated Words Lose Meaning, and Speed Running
5 mei 2022 · 1 uur 43 min
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When we say save the bees, which bees are we talking about? What happens when you repeat a word and it loses meaning? And how could you design an experiment to figure that out? And what is speed running and why do we all love it?
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We also learn about: solitary bees dance in their spare time, 25000 species of bees, send your enemies bees in the post, Bombus terrestris, human centric beekeeping, the billion pound honey market, honey bees are important, but also bad sometimes, local bee jobs stolen by foreign invaders, bee to bee pathogens, save ALL the bees, hanging out in the park and repeating words words words, good experimental design, the meaning test tube, tuning out meaning, Zeus, pitfalls of psychology, introspection, “familiar feels”, neutral words, clever Hans, the observer expectancy effect, dream of good experiments goodnight, don’t use flash when taking a picture of your screen, Dragster, Atari, Doom, pacifist runs, Quake done quick, games done quick, lowest percent, link stares at a rupee for 17 hours, bullet time bounce
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Caroline's Paper on the Western Honeybee
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Sheila Black's Semantic Satiation Review
Titchener's Early Description of Meaning Loss
Semantic Satiation for Poetic Effect
Jakobovits Naming Semantic Satiation
Bassett and Warne Introspective Study
Lambert and Jakobovits Semantic Polarity Experiment
Clever Hans
Schultz Constructively Criticizing Semantic Satiation
Smith Category Verification Experiment
Neural Analysis of Semantic Satiation
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A Brief History of Speedrunning
A Quick History of Speedrunning
Activisions Magazine Volume 1
Marimoto Super Mario Bros 3 Speedrun
Zikubi! Super Mario Bros 3 Speedrun
The Speedrun Where Link Stares at Rupees for 17 Hours
What is the hardest trick in Speedrunning?
Psychonauts Devs React to Speedrunner
Tom’s Favorite TAS Speedrun
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15: What the Turing Test Became, Ella's Bodily Quirks, and Pub Quizes
21 april 2022 · 1 uur 49 min
What is the Turing Test, what has it become, and what can we learn from it? How many of Ella's weird bodily quirks do you have? And how did the pub quiz come about? Lees meer
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We also learn about: the imitation game, performative gender, the alignment problem, It’s not blade runner, artifical stupidity, have you heard about eugene goostman?! the alignment problem, CAPTTTTCAHA, archival OCR, thank Turing for Duo Lingo TikToks, Timnit Gebru, Robert Miles, the sociological and economic alignment problem, Ella Syndrome, learn to roll your tongue or else! Artistotle can’t roll his tongue, ACHOO, acronyms were a mistake, spare tendons, what is your earwax texture? the one person who liked Han dynasty tests, unlucky 13, TV quizes, what if we did that? Jay's virtual pub quiz. Jay's virtual pub quiz.
Sources:
Stanford Philosophy Turing Test Page
Computing Machinery and Intelligence
Turing Test 50 Year Retrospective
Robert Miles
Eugene Goostman
CAPTCHA Paper
reCAPTCHA Interview
CAPTCHA Difficulty
Google's reCAPTCHA Policy
Github Copilot's Alignment Problem Paper
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Photic Sneezing
Tongue Rolling
Palarmis Longus
Armpit Smell
Cilanto Taste
23 and Me Cilantro
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A History of Quizzing
History of the Quiz
BBC Quizzing
Pub Quiz History
Quizzism Book
International Spelling Bee
Jay's Virtual Pub Quiz
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14: Domesticating Foxes, The Oldest Potted Plant, and Crosswords
7 april 2022 · 1 uur 34 min
Could you domesticate a fox, and what even IS domestication? What is the oldest potted plant, and, wait, what does Caroline mean by that question? And how did Tom go from hating crosswords to loving them? Lees meer
The photo we mention of Mecta the Fox Pup
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We also learn about: the first domesticated animals, one of Darwin’s sequels, floppy ears, domestication syndrome, the fox bachelor, the neural crest cell hypothesis, our version of Behind the Bastards, cited comment critiques, we all just want to learn, I’ve never seen a plant in the middle ages, we completely misinterpret the question, ella’s old man wisdom, a plant older than america, the anxious keepers of the oldest potted plant, crosswords were a fad, we were always insufferable, relearnig ocular immunity, crossword fuckery, “thirsty” well shortz, what is and isn’t general knowledge? and bad jokes with friends.
Sources:
A New Origin Story for Dogs
Dog Domestication and the Dual Dispersal of People and Dogs into the Americas
Genomic and archaeological evidence suggest a dual origin of domestic dogs
The Silver Fox Domestication Experiment
Early Canid Domestication: interplay between behavioral genetics and development
Red Fox Genomic Regions Associated with Tame Behaviours
The “Domestication Syndrome” in Mammals: Neural Crest Cell Behavior and Genetics
The History of Farm Foxes Undermines the Animal Domestication Syndrome
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The History Of Houseplants
Penjing
Kew Gardens
South African Encephalartos Species
Cycad Palm, Ursula Bucham
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New York Times History of the Crossword
Margaret Farrar
Yes, You Can Write More Than One Letter in a Square
NYTimes Scumbag Controversy
The Hidden Bigotry of Crosswords
How Will Shortz Edits a New York Times Crossword Puzzle (Lorelai)
DownForAcross
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13: The Golden Toad Mystery, All the Things we Left on the Moon, and the Oldest Bar Joke
24 maart 2022 · 1 uur 40 min
What happened to the golden toad? How many things did we leave on the moon, and what are they? And what is the oldest recorded bar joke? Lees meer
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We also learn about: The World Wildlife Fund/World Wresting Federation, Agatha Christie’s Mystery of the Golden Toad, publication smackdowns, the amphibian apocalypse, outside my jurisdiction, double callback, the african clawed frog (from ep 5!), on this podcast we stan… Michael Collins, moon poop, moon scalpels, 4 undetonated grenades, moonquakes, no on vomitted on the moon, rating moon items, sneaking things on the moon, dogs in sumerian bars only want to open one thing and it’s disgusting, how many likes did that tablet have? reading sumerian proverbs, the dog understands take it, but it does not understand put it down.
Sources:
The Golden Toad
Thirty Years After the Last Golden Toad Sighting, What Have We Learned?
El Niño–Southern Oscillation
Crump, Apparent decline of the golden toad: underground or extinct?
Pounds and Fogden, Conservation of the golden toad: a brief history
Global Warming Didn't Kill the Golden Toad
First Mammal Killed by Global Warming
The Chytrid Fungus
Stopping the Next Amphibian Apocalypse
Hope for the Golden Toad
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List of Lunar Missions
WSJ Article of Things we've left on the Moon
Nasa Catalogue of Manmade Material on the Moon
Lunar Retroreflectors
Moonquakes
Grenades on the Moon
Correction on Moon Vomit
Biomedical Results of Apollo
Studying Moon Poop
Family Photo on the Moon
The Moon Museum
PBS Moon Museum Investigation
Audio Recording of Almost Forgetting to Drop Symbolic Items
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Images of the Tablets
Sumerian Animal Proverbs and Fables: Collection Five
AskHistorians Thread
Proverbs from Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
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12: Thermal Biology, Why we have Periods, and Stickers
10 maart 2022 · 1 uur 26 min
What do heat and temperature have to do with biology? (It turns out, a lot!) We know what periods are, but why do humans have them? And stickers are delightful but how did they come about? Lees meer
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We also learn about: what is heat? endotherms ectotherms homeotherms heterotherms and poikilotherms, being warm blooded evolved twice, heat generating plants, naked mole rats are weird, the podcast's stable of strange animals grows, kleptothermy, everyone huddles, which animals have periods? mansplaining periods, elphant shrews, convergent evolution of periods, spontaneous decidualization, "pregnancy is parasitic", women's reproductive research is underfunded, georgian beauty standards, stamp based tangents, bumper stickers, and our favorite stickers.
Sources:
Richard Feynman's "Six Easy Pieces" Book
Endotherms and Ectotherms
Thermoregulation
Oryx Heterothermy
Quelea High Body Temperature
McKechnie's Blog Post on the paper
The evolution of Endothermy
Beehive Temperature Regulation
Desert Ant Thermotolerance
Thermogenesis in Plants
Color Changing Thermal Biology
Sloth Poikilothermy
More Sloth Poikilothermy
Poikilothermy and Huddling in Naked Mole Rats
Kleptothermy
Forbes: Why Did Women Evolve Periods?
Decidualization
The Evolution of Menstruation: A New Model for Genetic Assimilation
The Significance and Evolution of Menstruation
Grackhouse's History of Stickers
The History of Sticker Printing
The History of Postage Stamps
Avery Dennison History
Smithers: The Value of the Sticker Market
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11: Guest Steve Rathje, Insect Consciousness, and Theatre Science
24 februari 2022 · 1 uur 9 min
Special guest Steve Rathje (@StevePsychology) asks us, do insects have consciousness? What, empirically, makes things go viral on social media? And what are the scientific effects of live theatre? Lees meer
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We also learn about: Outgroup effects on social media, subjective experience and qualia, except for mosquitos, we share genes with bananas are they conscious? the emotional dog and the rational tail, over-anti-anthropomorphism, tiktok survey of insect consciousness, would aliens think we are conscious? Steve’s at the party talking about qualia again! Sondheim, Sarah Ruhl’s magical realism absurdist plays, Steve’s study on the effect of live theater on empathy, solving Sondheim vs Weber scientifically, antiperfectionism, the weirdness of going viral, different types of online engagement, buy our supplements!
Sources:
Steve's Social Media Paper: Out-Group Animosity Drives Engagement on Social Media
What Insects can tell us about the Origins of Consciousness
Steve's Theatre Paper: Attending Live Theatre Improves Empathy, Changes Attitudes, and Leads to Pro-Social Behavior
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10: Video Game Epidemiology, Sneeze Smells, and Game Jams
10 februari 2022 · 1 uur 25 min
What can a video game teach us about pandemics? What are the different things a sneeze can smell like? And what makes game jams so magical? Lees meer
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We also learn about: Hakkar the Soulflayer, npc asymptomatic carriers, just reset the world and change the code!, a disease model with real people, death isn’t temporary, show us the patch notes, self protection fatigue, pandemics are complicated, “look for the helpers, you will always find people who are helping”, only humans can simulate humans, “I sneeze so much”, what scents can sneezes have? smells are weird, phantosmia, Ella channeling Tom’s bad jokes, “all the tubes are connected”, piss breath, “how are we functioning?”, Tom made indie games, the first game jam email, 100,000 Guys, the Ludum Dare, “There’s too many days” “Counter Clockwise”, Hungry Knight!, Tom’s first dream game, thesis jam, Pierrec’s french review of Tom’s game.
Sources:
Lancet Corrupted Blood Paper
Epidemiology Corrupted Blood Paper
Wired Corrupted Blood Article
PCGamer Corrupted Blood Article
Chen 2013 Epidemic Game
Charlotte Eye, Ear, Note and Throat Associates on Smelly Sneezes
Why does my sneeze smell bad?
Acetone Breath
Bacterid Producing Sweet Smells
Losing Your Smell
Phantosmia
Ammonia Breath
Correlation of Ammonia Breath during Hemodialysis
History of Game Jams
The First Game Jam Email
Pierrec's Revied of Tom's First Game
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9: Beaver Reintroductions, Solving Mazes, and ASMR
27 januari 2022 · 1 uur 45 min
What are the benefits of reintroducing a species after 400 years? Why do we make rats solve mazes, and can slime molds solve mazes? What is ASMR, and how did it become such a thing? Lees meer
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We also learn about: Beavery introductions, vanilla flavor usually isn’t castorium, beavers support everyone in the wetlands, Tom’s gonna make a joke, The Scottish Beaver Trial, impatient beavers, international legal beaver issues, failed reintroductions are beautiful, auto sound mmm rad, autonomus sensory meridian response, her royal majesty’s asmr, and Ella’s favorite ASMR videos.
Sources:
Beavers and Castoreum
RSPB on Beaver Reintroductions
Scottish Wildlife Trust Report on Beavers in Knapdale
Scottish Wild Land Group on the Tay Beavers
Legal Battle over Beavers
Oranguta Reintroductions
Short-haired Bumblebee Reintroductions
Berger-Tal on Openness about Failed Reintroductions
Conservation Translocations: a Review of Common Difficulties and Promising Directions
Willard Small's First Rat Maze Study
Slime Mold Maze Study
Maze Solving Using Fatty Acid Chemistry
Tolman's Better Mazes
Dashiell Maze Criticism
Morris Water Maze
Advanced Morris Water Maze Study
Wire Interview with Mycologist Anne Pringle
Crinkle Crinkle Little Shirt
History of ASMR
The First Dedicated Whispering Channel
BBC Interview with Whispers Red
Cardi B ASMR
ASMR to Help you Sleep Beating you Until your Unconscious
1300s AD ASMR - Nun Takes Care of You in Bed (You Have the Plague)
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8: Recorded Sound, Prosopagnosic Pareidolia, and Meeting David Attenborough
13 januari 2022 · 1 uur 34 min
To start the new year we learn about the science and history of recording sound, consider whether people with Prosopagnosia experience Pareidolia, and relive what it was like for Caroline to meet the one and only Sir David Attenborough. Lees meer
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We also learn about: The Phonoautograph, unplayable recordings, “drop the auto, just, Phonograph”, did you write that joke down tom, debunking Edison’s first recording, someone pretending to be a pigeon, Before or After Recorded Audio? Why did it take us so long to record audio? analog vs digital, Janet’s episode, turning pictures into audio, can you believe Janet’s new pennyfarthing? Do people with Farragolia experience glossolalia, cars do have faces, “you just turned into somebdy else”, the answer is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, aphantasia, throwaway sentences in studies, get high and get deep, and the Caroline Roper Studio for TikToks of Science.
Sources:
The Phonoautograph
Debunking Edison's Fist Recording
The Recoording That Never Wanted to be Heard
Early Sound Recordings
Alexander Graham Bell's Ear Phonoautograph
The Dawn of Digital Recording
The Earliest Recording
Prosopagnosia
Fusiforum Face Area
The Case of Ron Blackwell
The Neurons That Mistook a Hat for a Face
Prosopagnosia and Functional Fusiform Face Area
Fusiform Face Area And Pareidolia Linked
Pareidolia Question on r/Prosopagnosia
How Mental Imagery and Pareidolia are Linked
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7: End of Year Q&A 2021
30 december 2021 · 1 uur 17 min
Today we learn about the most interesting topic of all: each other! How did we get into our science fields, and how did we meet? What's our favorite science fact to tell at parties? What advice do we have for aspiring creators? Lees meer
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We also learn about: our science origin stories, Tom used to be a theatre kid, Tom’s first podcast, our first TikToks, we’re on a first name basis with Hank, how we met, that time we all freaky friday’d, Ella DESPISED Tom, really long fly sperm, clinical fun fact trials, the immortal jellyfish, hermissenda, moths, Interstellar, The Martian, Demon Slayer, Edge of Tomorrow, advice on getting started on TikTok, Bill Nye could never, The Mower, MMM Honey! and nightmares.
Videos we Mention:
Caroline’s First Science TikTok
Tom's First TikTok
Ella's First Big TikTok
Caroline's Bloodwood Tree Video
Ella's Science Speedrun Video
Tom's RGB Video
Hank & John's Video about Having Each Other
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6: Genetic Chimeras, Judas Goats, and Toys
16 december 2021 · 1 uur 40 min
On a surprisingly deep holiday episode, we ask, what is a genetic chimera, could it save lives, and is it moral? What are Judas Goats, and what are the challenges faced in conservation? And most importantly, what were the first toys in history and what were our favorite toys? Lees meer
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We also learn about: Why are mythological chimeras all ladies? a Tom/Joe chimera, “It was very dissapointing”, “I expect better evidence”, a Judas Kiss, goats are weird, helicopter tattoos, ring-necked parakeets, relocating hedgehogs, would you download a goat? Helping other human beings, what a concept! Tom’s yo-yo tricks, children existed! the earliest toys, Ella’s duel disk, tamagotchis, and the future of toys.
Sources:
Chimeras in Mythology
Human Chimeras That Already Exist
Interspecies Organogenesis Generates Autologous Functional Islet
Interspecies Chimerism with Mammalian Pluripotent Stem Cells
Human–animal chimeras: ethical issues about farming chimeric animals bearing human organs
Feral Goat Eradications on Galapagos
Galapagos Goat Eradication
Galapagos Project Isabella
Galapagos Judas Goats
Vegetation and Animal Recovery on Galapagos
Galapagos Invasive Species
Is it Ritual? or is it Children?
Split Twig Observations and Carbon Dating
Ancient Hedgehog Cart (via @trashbandikoot on tiktok)
Business Insider Toy List
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5: The History of Pregnancy Tests, The Middlest Size, and FanFiction
2 december 2021 · 1 uur 37 min
When was the first pregnancy test? If we know the biggest and smallest sizes in the universe, what is the middlest size? What's the deal with fanfiction? Lees meer
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We also learn about: Comedy!, piss prophets, we should know better that science is weird, “Looks like the frog’s ovulating!”, we are in the middle of history, what even is an object, the centi-sand, don't fudge significant figures, Dante’s Self Insert RPF, we get carried away playing the fanfiction pairing game.
Sources:
Pee is for pregnant: The history and science of urine-based pregnancy tests
Ancient Egyptian Pregnancy Tests
Effects of Hormones on Barley Leaves
Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG)
The Long Gestation of the Modern Home Pregnancy Test
Kevin Kelly NYTimes Review
Solar System Ratio Calculation
Middlest Size Calculation
Fanfiction.net
AO3
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4: Randomness, What Happens Without Sleep, and Stardew Valley
18 november 2021 · 1 uur 41 min
What are the uses of randomness, and how do we even get it? What happens to your body when you don't sleep? And is Stardew Valley secretly... a horror game? Lees meer
Links we Discuss:
Infinite Monkey Theorem Results
The Hollow Mask Illusion
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We also learn about: Ella making random noises, chiptune drums, dice fanfiction, the infinite monkey grant, gggggggggggggg, everyone guesses 7 and picks Rock, a very funny joke for our particle physicist listeners, a million random digits, minecraft seeds, the Russian sleep experiment creepypasta, sleep themed band names, the optimal nap, do the dip kids! Maureen the rocking chair champion, um actually it’s called Apophenia, tetris fanfiction, and ludo narrative disonance.
Sources:
Humans Cannot Consciously Generate Random Number Sequences
The Predominance Of Seven And The Apparent Spontaneity Of Numerical Choices
Hannah Fry on Rock Paper Scissors
Winning at Rock Paper Scissors
Rock Paper Scissors Strategy
Hot Hand Fallacy and Gambler's Fallacy
How the Mind Works
Galton Discussing Dice for Statistical Experiments
LHC Tippet and the Random Number Table
A Million Random Digits
Radiation is Random
Modern Nuclear Chemistry
Sleep Deprivation
Sleep Stages
Sleep Debt
Obesity and Sleep Deprivation
Part 2
Cardiovascular Health and Sleep Deprivation
Microsleep
Hallucinations
Rat Sleep Deprivation Study
Fatal Familial Insomnia
Fatal Familial Insomnia Stories
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3: Mind Controlling Parasites, Are Elephants Right Handed, and Naruto AMVs
4 november 2021 · 1 uur 29 min
How do mind controlling (or rather, behavior controlling) parasites work? Are elephants right or left handed? And what is so great about Naruto Bohemian Rhapsody AMVs? Lees meer
Read Tom's essay on Tor.com!
Get tickets to Ella's science comedy show!
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We also learn about: being cancelled by ants, Ella tries to pronounce latin names, bugs losing their butts, the parasite of the day, thanks for the parasites Charlie! Phylogenetic Inirtia, I DON’T OWN QUEEN OR NARUTO I DONT OWN ANYTHING, and Torchwood X Florence & The Machine fanvids!
Sources:
Mind Control: How Parasites Manipulate Cognitive Functions in Their Insect Hosts
Ophiocordyceps unilateralis
How a parasitic fungus turns ants into zombies
A specialized fungal parasite
This Parasite Drugs Its Hosts With the Psychedelic Chemical in Shrooms
Parasites brainwash grasshoppers into death dive
How does rabies cause aggression?
Rabies virus modifies host behaviour through a snake-toxin
Parasite makes mice lose fear of cats permanently
Brain parasite may strip away rodents' fear of predators, not just of cats
Parasites - Toxoplasmosis
Right or Left: Elephant calves pick their trunk handedness early on in life
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2: Spooky Frogs, The Most Bones, and Witch Hunts
21 oktober 2021 · 1 uur 18 min
On this SpoOoOoky Halloween episode we learn about a slew of truly spooky frogs, investigate which animal has the most bones, and see how capitalism may have led to the rise of witch hunts! Lees meer
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We also learn about: fluorescence, dinosaur eating frogs (technically), CAN A SPIDER EAT A DINOSAUR??? (NOT CLICKBAIT), frog shazam, Ella learns to love the Freddy Krueger Frog, wishing you a happy bones day, evo-devo, deregionalization, how would antlers wear pants?, the origin of gossip, down with capitalism!
Sources:
Horror frog breaks own bones to produce claws
Frogs with Claws, Frogs with Hair
Vampire Flying Frog
New pumpkin toadlet species found
How the Newly Discovered, Mud-Loving ‘Zombie’ Frog Got Its Name
The Freddy Krueger Frog
Freddy Krueger Frog Audio
Freddy Krueger Frog Video
Devil Frog
Vampire Squid
Skeletal Structure, University of Idaho
Skeleton, Postcranial, Rommel & Reynolds
New Bedford Whaling Museum
Axial patterning in snakes and caecilians, Woltering et al.
Florida Museum
From Lizard to Snake; Behind the Evolution of an Extreme Body Plan, Woltering
Witches, Witch-Hunting and Women, Sylvia Federici
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1: Time Illusions, Electric Bees, and Fakespeares
7 oktober 2021 · 1 uur 19 min
What does a time illusion look like? Why are bees electrically charged? Who is the real Shakespeare? Lees meer
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We also learn about: Yanney and Laurel, bad science magic tricks, Carly Rae Jepsen's seminal hit Call Me Maybe, Temporal Odor Mixtures, how many bees are in a bolt of lightning, The Flower Dome, fake flowers and fake bees, the flat moon theory, and the Voldemort Codex.
Sources:
Dixon, N. F., & Spitz, L. (1980). The detection of auditory visual desynchrony. Perception, 9(6), 719–721. https://doi.org/10.1068/p090719
Stratton, G. M. (1896). Some preliminary experiments on vision without inversion of the retinal image. Psychological Review, 3(6), 611–617. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0072918
Stratton, G. M. (1896). Some preliminary experiments on vision without inversion of the retinal image. Psychological Review, 3(6), 611–617. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0072918
Cunningham, D., Billock, V., & Tsou, B. (2001). Sensorimotor Adaptation to Violations of Temporal Contiguity. Psychological Science, 12, 532 - 535. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9280.d01-17
Alais, D., Carlile, S., (2005). Synchronizing to real events: Subjective audiovisual alignment scales with perceived auditory depth and speed of sound. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102(6), 2244-2247. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0407034102
Stetson, C., Cui, X., Montague P.R., Eagleman, D.M., (2006). Motor-Sensory Recalibration Leads to an Illusory Reversal of Action and Sensation. Neuron, 51(5), 651-659. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2006.08.006.
Perl O, Nahum N, Belelovsky K, Haddad R. The contribution of temporal coding to odor coding and odor perception in humans. Elife. 2020;9:e49734. Published 2020 Feb 7. https://doi.org/10.7554%2FeLife.49734
Montgomery, C., Vuts, J., Woodcock, C.M. et al. Bumblebee electric charge stimulates floral volatile emissions in Petunia integrifolia but not in Antirrhinum majus. Sci Nat 108, 44 (2021). https://d…
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Trailer: Let's Learn Everything!
4 oktober 2021 · 2 min
Science communicators Ella Hubber, Tom Lum, and Caroline Roper share anything and everything interesting! Each episode they teach each other about a science topic, answer a question, and learn about a miscellaneous topic. Whether it's bugs on drugs, temporal illusions, or reality tv, there's so much out there, so let's learn everything! Lees meer
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