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Release the Icelandic Cut
Episode 603
Birds. No one likes them. But how can they balance like they do, perched on wires and branches? It turns out scientists have only recently discove…
5 years, 11 months ago
Birth of the Xenobots
Episode 602
Biologists at Tufts University, Douglas Blackiston and Michael Levin have created all programmable organisms called xenobots — golems dreamed in sili…
5 years, 11 months ago
Magnets is Beards
Episode 601
An Australian astrophysicist and research fellow at a Melbourne university injured himself by attempting to invent a device that stops the coronaviru…
5 years, 11 months ago
Hi. We're back.
Episode 601
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6 years ago
So Long and Thanks for All the Fits
Episode 600
Thanks so much for sticking with us for 600 episodes! We take a look back at what made us laugh (and learn!). In this episode, we introduce the great…
7 years, 8 months ago
One Last One Fermi
Episode 599
The sheer abundance of stars in the universe suggests that, somewhere, an intelligent lifeform should be warming itself on a distant planet. Even if …
7 years, 8 months ago
Sum Answer Bee
Episode 598
Bees seem to understand the idea of zero – the first invertebrate shown to do so. When the insects were encouraged to fly towards a platform carrying…
7 years, 9 months ago
Put Your Foot in Your Mouth
Episode 594
If you could taste human flesh in an ethical way, would you? A man was recently in a motorcycle crash that put him face-to-face with the macabre hypo…
7 years, 9 months ago
Psych Warn
Episode 593
The Stanford Prison Experiment, one of the most famous and compelling psychological studies of all time, told us a tantalizingly simple story about h…
7 years, 9 months ago
Snow vs the Volcano
Episode 592
Hawaii's big island recently got a little bit hairier. Golden filaments resembling human hair measuring up to two feet in length are draped across pa…
7 years, 9 months ago