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. [...]
Episode 117 – Wrapped Up in Science
00:00:00 – Kepler (the satellite, not the dude, who would be a zombie at this point) done found us a planet within the habitable zone of a star a mere 600 light years away. THANKS KEPLER! 00:13:08 – Drinks are like planets, wait long enough and one of them goes away. Ryan has some holiday cheer with Mikkeller [...]
Episode 116 – Subnormal
00:00:00 – Naked mole rats are even more awesome than previous thought: their sperm is terrible. Doesn’t sound like a good thing? Well how come their awful sperm still works just fine? Because mole rates cannot be stopped, that’s why. 00:11:53 – Like it or not, drinks are a part of the show and thus [...]
Episode 113 – Mo’ Money, Mo’ Science
00:00:00 – Jai Ranganthan joins Paleopals Charlie, Jacob, and Ryan to update everyone on the #SciFund Challenge. First and foremost, congrats to our own Kelly Weinersmith on being the very first project to get fully funded! Yay! But the Paleopals go one further and actually highlight a few projects that caught their eye. Jacob was [...]
