Posts Tagged ‘biology’

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 339: Sauce Is Key

September 16, 2019 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

Did junk food cause blindness?..

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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 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 311: The 2018 Ig Nobel Prizes

October 3, 2018 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

The Ig Nobel Prizes..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Peter Miller, Podcast, Ross Balch

Tags: anthropology, biology, cannibalism, chemistry, chimpanzees, colonoscopy, economics, erectile dysfunction, Ig Nobel, kidney stones, literature, medicine, nutrition, peace, penis, reproduction, road rage, saliva, self-experimentation, stress, Voodoo, wine

SoT 280: The 2017 Ig Nobel Prizes

November 8, 2017 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

The Ig Nobel Prizes..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Lucas Randall, Mick Vagg, Penny Dumsday, Podcast, Shayne Joseph

Tags: anatomy, bats, biology, cats, cave insects, cheese, coffee, cognition, crocodiles, didgeridoo, ears, economics, fetus, fluid dynamics, foetus, Ig Nobel, improbable, medicine, music, nutrition, obstetrics, peace, penis, physics, snoring, twins, vagina, vampire bats

SoT 265: Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes

June 4, 2017 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

Juno results,..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Helen Maynard-Casely, Penny Dumsday, Podcast, Shayne Joseph

Tags: bad journalism, biology, climate change, flamingos, international space station, Juno, Jupiter, media, mice, planetary science, space, sperm, Svalbard

SoT 163: The 2014 Ig Nobel Prizes

October 8, 2014 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

The Ig Nobel Prizes..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Jo Alabaster, Penny Dumsday, Podcast, Sean Elliott, Shayne Joseph

Tags: arctic science, art, baby poo sausages, banana peel, biology, economics, Ig Nobel prizes, Ig Nobels, Jesus toast, medicine, neuroscience, nutrition, pain, physics, polar bears, psychology, psychopaths, public health

SoT 128: Plants on the Moon

December 13, 2013 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

Trial to improve..

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Filed Under: Ed Brown, Jo Benhamu, Kate Naughton, Podcast, Shayne Joseph

Tags: astrobiology, astronomy, biology, cancer, de-extinction, lab mice, lab rats, prostate cancer

SoT 106: I Like My Squids Curvy

June 18, 2013 by Ed Brown • No Comments •

Lyrebirds caught..

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

Tags: biology, comet, ejaculate, embryonics, lyrebirds, mimicry, organs, sperm, squid, sun, sungrazers