Mapping fruit fly brains, the oldest known meteorite on Earth, a Parkinson protein and Betelgeuse dimming!
SoT 245: The 2016 Ig Nobel Prizes
- October 16, 2016
- Tagged as: animals, brain, climate change, corporate fraud, Deepak Chopra, dragonflies, entomology, flies, fool, honesty, horseflies, Ig Nobel, intelligence, itch, liars, lie, marketing, perception, personalities, pollution, rats, rocks, rubbber hand trick, sex, Volkswagon
The Ig Nobel Prizes honour achievements that first make us laugh, then make us think. We take a look at this year’s winners: from rats in pants to collecting flies!
Artificial milk, penguin-like rovers, arachnophobia-curing brain surgery and a bad week for private spaceflight.
We sleep to wash our brains, jellyfish in space, yeti was a bear, urination time and secret botox.
SoT 117: It’s A Hoax
- September 11, 2013
- Tagged as: babies, brain, brain-to-brain communication, canyon, fish, geology, language, leadership, learning, microbiome, testicles
Brain-to-brain communication, Greenland’s hidden Grand Canyon, in utero bacteria, in utero learning, and fish leadership.
SoT 97: Hypnopompic Hippopotamuses
- April 21, 2013
- Tagged as: brain, dreams, extinction, nerve cells, neuroscience, psilocybin, spiders
$100m for BRAIN research, dream interpretation, procuring drugs for research and more!
Podcast Reviews
- Great Show
September 6, 2012 by Volk613 from AustraliaAlways informative, often entertaining. Great selection of regulars with a variety of interests and expertise. Also great guests with and Australian focus.
- Great science roundup
July 23, 2012 by SB AUST. from AustraliaNice to hear science news from an Aussie perspective and with a good dose of humour. Great work!
- Fun and smartJune 17, 2012 by wertys from Australia
I have enjoyed this podcast b/c it is very funny banter about science stories but there is also a serious edge to the analysis. It's proof that you can be amusing and entertaining as well as giving the science content its due. Highly recommended weekly listening.