Episodes

SoT 342: Grumpy, Hungry, Wanting Chocolate

October 22, 2019 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

Another..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Lucas Randall, Penny Dumsday, Podcast

Tags: AI, artificial intelligence, exomoon, exoplanet, menstrual synchrony, periods, Tabby's Star

SoT 341: The 2019 Ig Nobel Prizes

October 9, 2019 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

The Ig Nobel Prizes..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Lucas Randall, Penny Dumsday, Peter Miller, Podcast

Tags: anatomy, bacteria, biology, chemistry, cockroaches, diaper, economics, engineering, faeces, happiness, Ig Nobel, itching, magnetic fields, medical education, medicine, money, nappy, natural language processing, nutrition, peace, physics, pizza, poop, psychology, replication, reproducability, saliva, scratch, scrotum, wombats

SoT 340: They Look Snarly

September 29, 2019 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

T-Rex kept a cool head, first..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Lucas Randall, Penny Dumsday, Podcast

Tags: AI, artificial intelligence, brains, dinosaurs, flu, influenza, neuroscience, t-rex, vaccination, vaccine

SoT 339: Sauce Is Key

September 16, 2019 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

Did junk food cause blindness? Is..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Lucas Randall, Penny Dumsday, Podcast

Tags: aliens, astronomy, biology, bioluminescence, blindness, climate change, geology, junk food, media, science reporting, spiders, volcanoes

SoT 338: Hidden Bottoms

August 19, 2019 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

Important but tiny and..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Lucas Randall, Penny Dumsday, Podcast

Tags: ancient humans, astronomy, astrophysics, biology, black holes, fish, mobile phones, Out of Africa, reefs

SoT 337: Fear-Relevant Non-Slimy Small Animals

July 31, 2019 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

How..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Jo Benhamu, Lucas Randall, Penny Dumsday, Podcast

Tags: animals, askap, astronomy, cancer, common cold, disgust, Fast Radio Bursts, fear, genetic disease, medicine, psychology, virus

SoT 336: Text Neck

July 17, 2019 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

Those puppy-dog eyes evolved..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Jo Benhamu, Lucas Randall, Podcast

Tags: black holes, cosmology, dogs, evolution, media, mobile phones, science reporting

SoT 335: Parmesan Not Brie

July 4, 2019 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

An ancient grape variety..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Jo Benhamu, Lucas Randall, Penny Dumsday, Podcast

Tags: agriculture, cancer, evolution, gravity, moon, radiology, wine

SoT 334: That’s My Clickbait!

June 24, 2019 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

Did a supernova cause human..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Jo Benhamu, Penny Dumsday, Podcast, Shayne Joseph

Tags: bioethics, eradication, genetic engineering, genetic modification, human evolution, malaria, mosquitoes, science in the media, supernova

SoT 333: Altered State Of Consciousness

June 9, 2019 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

Bonobo mothers..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Jo Benhamu, Lucas Randall, Penny Dumsday, Podcast

Tags: archaeology, artificial intelligence, bonobos, cancer, climate change, drugs, lung cancer, machine learning, mating, trees