Category: Podcast
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Episode 367: Risk Management
This episode contains: We start this episode with hanitizer, staying up late, slick ps5 mentions, soda burps, and Brave New World. Doom and Gloom: The warming climate is causing animals to ‘shapeshift’. Several species of Australian parrot have shown a 4%-10% increase in bill size since 1871. Steven attempts to soapbox climate change again, but…
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Episode 366: Good Riddance
This episode contains: It’s almost Devon’s moving day, Ben has some bad luck, Steven visited Chicago. Not Ponytails or Cottontails no, Ducktales. Woo-hoo: A duck named Ripper learned how to say “You bloody fool!” in 1987. In depth analysis of a recorded musk duck named Ripper reveals a shocking truth, he’s probably lonely. https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/confirmed-a-duck-named-ripper-learned-how-to-say-you-bloody-fool/ Math,…
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Episode 365: Unsolved
This episode contains: We talk about King’s Cross Station and it’s significance on September 1st. Steven and Devon hung out recently and played Dungeons and Dragons. Try, try again: Firefly rocket explodes after launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Ben was watching the stream when the Firefly rocket launch went bad. Ben says science is…
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Episode 364: Smooth as an Android Bottom
This episode contains: We recorded late this week, but we still have covid and cockroaches in our lives. This Week in Space: Will it be safe for humans to fly to Mars? Mission would be viable if it doesn’t exceed 4 years. We don’t have a good way to shield cosmic radiation. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/08/210826111716.htm Objects in…
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Episode 363: A Thomas Riker Situation
This episode contains: We talk about how crazy of a weep we’ve been having. Ben’s son broke his arm, Steven went to a high school reunion and for some reason we’re still teaching cursive writing in schools. That is a Spicy Meatball: Humans just generated nuclear energy akin to a star. What can humanity accomplish…
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Episode 362: Space: It is what it is
This episode contains: Steven is not a robot, Devon saw some co-workers, and Ben is reading. Onward to science! This Week in Space: The space station incident was far worse than NASA admitted, Russia’s newly-docked Nauka module accidentally fired its thrusters. NASA flight director Zebulon Scoville had to declare a spacecraft emergency. Everyone is fine…
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Episode 361: Devon’s Achilles Heel
This episode contains: Devon’s opens up about a delicate operation he had performed, as well as something about himself that he has never told anyone, not even his wife! Now Wouldn’t You, Barracuda: Giant sea bass are thriving in Mexican waters. Scientific research that found giant sea bass to be critically endangered stopped at the…
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Episode 360: Tom Paris Commemorative Edition
This episode contains: We start this episode with quite a ramble. We cover Homestar Runner, the age of the internet, spotify, restaurants closing for covid, Mr. DNA, youtube comment sections, Devon committing 0 murders, and the delta variant. It takes us too long to get to the science. I would have gotten away with it,…
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Episode 359: Tickle The Membrane
This episode contains: Devon isn’t here, he’s in Las Vegas. Ben got kicked out of chess club for talking. Steven was gifted a jacket by Devon like 20 years ago and they are probably dating. A Double Kick Drum by the River in the Summer: Minuscule drums push the limits of quantum weirdness. Vibrating membranes…
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Episode 358: Mash It All Together
This episode contains: We had a massive BBQ! All of your favorite hosts were together and Ben and Steven are here to tell you all about it. Steven panic bought a LEGO set and Ben has the best DropMix collection. Brain Matters: ‘Neuroprosthesis’ restores words to man with paralysis. Scientists are translating signals from brains,…
