Episodios

  • Do microbes help or hurt you? (featuring Katrine Whiteson)
    May 20 2025

    Daniel and Kelly talk to Katrine Whiteson (a Whiteson Prize laureate) about the complex relationship between humans and microbes

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    1 h y 10 m
  • Introducing: Kill Switch
    May 15 2025

    Were we sleeping when everything changed? Seems like the technologically driven future is already here. On kill switch, we explain the right NOW of our supercharged technological lives. Ask ourselves who is in control? Can we beat the computer or are we going to need to throw the kill switch?

    New host Dexter Thomas, Jr answers questions big and small – like who made Shrimp Jesus and why? To how and why you very well could get arrested by a computer. And we’ll be bringing the DIY back to tech – How to Now on everything from how to run your own LLM to tips to mitigate your exposure online.

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    2 m
  • Listener Questions #10
    May 15 2025

    Daniel and Kelly answer questions about prions, playing music near a black hole, and medical maggots.

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    50 m
  • Why is mercury liquid at room temperature?
    May 13 2025

    Daniel and Kelly take a detour into the fascinating world of chemistry to explore why mercury is liquid at room temp. The answer is relatively surprising!

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    52 m
  • How did intelligence arise?
    May 8 2025

    Daniel and Kelly answer listener questions about how we measure and define intelligence, hypotheses for why it arises, and why flies are so dumb.

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    1 h
  • Can we see what's inside the electron?
    May 6 2025

    Daniel and Kelly explore the nature of of matter and whether we can crack it open without spending billions on bigger colliders

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    55 m
  • Listener Questions #9
    May 1 2025

    Daniel and Kelly answer questions about space within the atom, picky parasites, and speed-of-light particles.

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    46 m
  • Was the Tyrannosaurus rex fast or slow? (Featuring Dr. John Hutchinson)
    Apr 29 2025

    Daniel and Kelly talk to Dr. John Hutchinson about how large animals move.

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    52 m
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