Thu, 8 March 2012
Zach and Kelly discuss another amazing case of horizontal gene transfer, and a study exploring whether winners or losers are more aggressive.
Direct download: Episode_15-Horizontal_gene_transfer_and_aggressive_winners.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 4:37pm EDT |
Tue, 21 February 2012
Zach and Kelly discuss the recent boycott of the publishing groupElsevier. |
Tue, 7 February 2012
Zach and Kelly have emerged triumphant from their move across the country, and are ready to get their geek on! This week's episode discusses a sea slug that can photosynthesize, and a slime mold that can find the shortest path through a maze. Woah.
Direct download: Episode_12__Slime_Slugs_and_Slutty_Genes.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:06pm EDT |
Tue, 3 January 2012
This week Zach and Kelly catch up on their recent adventures, and discuss the predominance of W.E.I.R.D. (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) subjects in psychology studies.
Direct download: Episode_11__Weinersmiths_W.E.I.R.D._and_W.R.O.uN.G..mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 5:44pm EDT |
Wed, 7 December 2011
This week Zach and Kelly talk about brain punching, stinky personalities, and gliomas.
Direct download: Episode_10_Punching_Personality_and_P_values.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:48pm EDT |
Mon, 28 November 2011
This week Zach and Kelly talk about the awesome stuff they've been learning lately, and Henry Reich of Minute Physics drops in to talk about popular science media and science education! |
Tue, 22 November 2011
This week Kelly and Zach talk to Dr. Kristina Killgrove about what she has learned about ancient Roman culture by studying the bones of ancient Romans.
Direct download: Episode_8__Killgrove_Craniums_and_Crowdfunding.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:13pm EDT |
Tue, 15 November 2011
This week Kelly and Zach talk to Dr. Sean Carroll about the arrow of time, dark energy, and education.
Direct download: Episode_7__Sean_Supercollider_and_Standard_Model.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:45am EDT |
Tue, 8 November 2011
This week Kelly and Zach talk to Dr. Zen Faulkes about zombie shrimp, puzzlingly slow crayfish, and his upcoming field expedition (which you can help fund!).
Direct download: Episode_6_-_Zen_Zombies_and_Ziplessness.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 10:16pm EDT |
Tue, 1 November 2011
This week Kelly and Zach talk to Ben Peters of MIT's Media Lab about 3-D printing!
Direct download: Episode_5__Peters_Printers_and_Polymers.mp3
Category:Science -- posted at: 8:00pm EDT |