Episode 121 – Diamonds are for Feather
00:00:00 – Are you dying to know how diamonds make it to Earth’s surface? Well the answer just might kill you. Abraham Padilla joins the Paleopals once more to talk about gas-powered kimberlite super-volcanoes on steroids. BOOM! 00:22:20 – Beer is also gas powered… sort of. Charlie has a beer of a different sort with [...]
Episode 120 – Black Swans
00:00:00 – David Shiffman, from the Why Sharks Matter blog, joins the Paleopals to discuss the recently discovered hybrid shark in Australia. He has a lot to say about the media coverage of sharks, global warming, and this story in particular. Be sure to check out Southern Fried Science for more marine science blogging! 00:33:04 – [...]
119 – Lost In Transmission
00:00:00 – This week Ben, Jacob, and Ryan start the week off by getting the science behind temporal cloaking with Alessandro Farsi. If you can make sense of it you win a laser to the ye, but you’ll also be able to avoid it, so there’s that. 00:23:00 – Drinks are only hidden by cloaking [...]
Episode 118 – Not What They Seem
00:00:00 – Kelly tell us about the fascinating world of kleptoparasites, specifically silverfish that hide inside ant colonies with chemical mimicry. Patrick and Ryan interrupt. 00:14:55 – Drinks also use chemicals, and they hide inside your glass until attacking your mouth. Patrick picked Kona’s Coffee Porter, he’s been there before, and he’ll go back again. [...]
