Episodes

SoT 331: A Hyperactive Toddler

April 26, 2019 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

For the first time ever,..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Kirsten Banks, Podcast

Tags: astronomy, astrophysics, black hole, event horizon, Event Horizon Telescope

SoT 330: A Very Large Horn

April 23, 2019 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

All about the meteor that..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Kate Naughton, Peter Miller, Podcast

Tags: bad science, dinosaurs, extinction, fluorescence, frogs, uncanny valley

SoT 329: Not The Father Of Lies

April 16, 2019 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

The ancient historian..

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Filed Under: Chris Curtain-Magee, Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Podcast

Tags: Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, archaeology, early humans, history, magnetic fields, magnetoreception, Out of Africa

SoT 328: Thralala, Thralala, Thralala!

April 2, 2019 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

How fish survive..

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

Tags: asteroids, Bennu, convergent evolution, DNA, fish, NASA, OSIRIS-REx, Parkinson's Disease, super smellers, synthetic DNA

SoT 327: You’ve Been Browned!

March 28, 2019 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

Houseplants don't clean the..

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

Tags: archaeology, astronomy, galaxies, linguistics, Nikola Tesla, plants, rogue planets, speech

SoT 326: A Very Lovely Molecule

March 21, 2019 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

The Mars InSight drill..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Helen Maynard-Casely, Lucas Randall, Penny Dumsday, Podcast

Tags: biology, bone marrow transplants, HIV, InSight, mars, planetary science, Saturn, Titan, twins

SoT 325: We Just Like Meerkats

March 16, 2019 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

Koalas are less stressed..

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

Tags: astronomy, environment, families, koalas, meerkats, NASA, Planet Nine, sacrifice, spaceflight, SpaceX, stress, urban development

SoT 324: Kinetic Penetrator

March 5, 2019 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

Japan's asteroid sample..

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

Tags: asteroids, astronomy, conservation, DNA, echidnas, flu, fraud, genetics, Hyabusa 2, influenza, JAXA, Mars One, Ryugu, scam, space exploration, vaccination

SoT 323: Very Small Frogs

March 1, 2019 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

Are insects being wiped out?..

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

Tags: bacteria, depression, entomology, flies, gut microbiome, insects, mental health, mosquitoes, sickness, sleep

SoT 322: Captain’s Log

February 20, 2019 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

Why was lapis lazuli found in a..

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

Tags: archaeology, lapis lazuli, magnetic field, plants, spiders