Podcast Episodes

Did Jaws get anything right about sharks?

Jaws (1975) was a massive hit that also created a whole lot of fear, but does anything in the film really stand up to shark science? 

Do sharks stalk humans? Do they roar? What can they sense? 

There a…

Published on 8 months, 4 weeks ago

Girl, so confusing!

Female lab mice have been bred to be passive and breed with ease. 

But, in the wild they're feisty and even pugnacious.

How much of our biological understanding of the world is based on misogyny?

Featur…

Published on 9 months ago

How we really feel about eels

Eels are mysterious and have a fascinating history. 

People in pre-medieval England used them to pay rent. Early 17th-century maps featured 'eel ships,' and even Sigmund Freud studied their breeding a…

Published on 9 months, 1 week ago

Why do animals have penises?

When it comes to sexual organs, the penis is really ‘out there.’  Name another organ that can change its form AND function in a matter of seconds! 

There’s a lot of variety in the animal kingdom; from…

Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago

Hollywood lied to us: Babe

Aussie classic Babe turns 30 this year, and its story of the little pig that achieves his dream of being a sheep dog is still as uplifting as the day it premiered. But we can't say "that'll do, pig" …

Published on 9 months, 4 weeks ago

Hollywood lied to us: The Birds

If you have a fear of getting swooped by magpies, mobbed by seagulls or blinded by crows, perhaps Alfred Hitchcock is to blame.

His 1963 horror classic The Birds created a generation of ornithophobes,…

Published on 10 months ago

Hollywood lied to us: Antz

Remember that 1998 film Antz? The one about an ant named Z?

The one where the ants had nightmare-inducing human teeth? The one we probably have to blame for the existence of Jerry Seinfeld's Bee Movie…

Published on 10 months, 1 week ago

Hollywood lied to us: Cocaine Bear

In 1985, a real American black bear consumed a bunch of cocaine that'd been dropped from a plane into the forest, and died.

Nearly 40 years later Hollywood stepped in the rewrite the story. What would…

Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Hollywood lied to us: Jurassic Park

Quick! Think of a ‘dinosaur movie’. Chances are Jurassic Park (1993) was first to mind.   

Steven Spielberg’s genetic nightmare/theme park gone wrong classic is so iconic that it inspired a generation…

Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago

Summer: Sex is Weird: Ep 1- The world’s first d*ck pic

When you really think about it, sex to make babies is WEIRD! You take an outie that has to get stuck inside an innie that links into a production line of eggs to assemble a perfect tiny being. It’s s…

Published on 11 months ago