Fish evolved to walk on land more than 30 separate times, the story of Tabby’s Star and the “alien megastructure”, and possible links between high-fibre diets and preventing peanut allergies.
SoT 103: FAOUN
- May 29, 2013
- Tagged as: Ancient Egypt, diet, dogs, ecology, extremophiles, food, stem cells
Eating insects, new kind of stem cells, endangered ecosystems and Ancient Egypt’s ‘sexy time’.
SoT 98: WIMPs and MACHOs
- April 26, 2013
- Tagged as: bacteria, bed bugs, dark matter, diet, Otzi, Venus
Dark matter, rain on Venus, Otzi’s bad teeth, red meat and heart attacks, and the folk remedy that may combat bed bugs.
SoT 59: Might As Well Be Blind
- June 10, 2012
- Tagged as: astronauts, computing, diet, Flerovium, geology, gerontology, linguistics, Livermorium, mars, meteorite, odour, periodic table, restless leg syndrome, threat instinct, vision
Rats get rehab, fruit flies with restless legs, Old Person Smell, evil eyebrows and more!
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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.