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From tales of historical idiocracy and scientific genius to weird and wacky cultural phenomena, Dr Rod Lamberts and Dr Will Grant are here to take you on a wild conversational journey, deep diving into the crevices of science, history and culture that you never knew existed.
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Real Life Good Will Hunting, Suspicious Scientist Deaths, and The Runit Dome Is Leaking
A relaxing trip to Japan turns into an accidental run down a double black diamond, a mathematician solves “impossible” problems because nobody told him they were impossible, and missing scientists…
Chimps Hoard Crystals, Talking Mushrooms and the Teddy Bear That Knows Your Kinks
Crystals have been fascinating humans for hundreds of thousands of years, chimpanzees might share the same shiny object obsession, and mushrooms may be sending electrical signals through their…
Robot Wolves, Neanderthal Brains and Why Snakes Are Winning
Robot wolves are now being used to scare bears away from Japanese schools, scientists have grown mini Neanderthal brains and plugged them into little robots, and snakes are quietly topping the…
Mouse Utopia Experiment, Constipation & Heart Attacks, and Phrases For When Things Go Wrong
A 1960s mouse utopia that collapsed into a vanity-obsessed apocalypse, a global database of 150,000 enthusiastic stool photos, and a scientific quest to help humans regrow limbs like a salamander.…
The Little Death, the Big Fraud, and the Bird That Stole Your Jerkin
A poll has asked people if they could win in a fist fight against Donald Trump, a survey on female orgasms has wandered into yawning, crying, and hallucinations, and vulture nests are quietly…
Gut Microbiome Romance, Defensive Rewilding and Sharks on Cocaine
High school students launch blood samples into near space, a real life love story involves a faecal microbiota transplant (FMT), and scientists find cocaine in sharks off The Bahamas. Today we bounce…
Bixonomania, Adversarial Hermeneutics, and Strontium in Baby Teeth
AI chatbots (and lazy researchers) can be convinced a fake disease is real, Gen Z is side-eyeing the whole “helpful assistant” thing, and apparently, the best way to jailbreak AI is to ask it nicely…
Bank-Swindling Deepfakes, Cigarette Butt Bird Nests, & Ocean Current Chaos
Deepfake scammers are now running full Zoom meetings, birds are lining their nests with cigarette butts like it’s a homewares trend, and Europe’s climate could be one ocean current wobble away from…
Organ-Growing Meat Sacks, Fart-Measuring Underwear, and Tropical Tree Friendships
Cloning is getting more useful and more unsettling, tropical trees may be better at cooperation than we are, and smart underwear is now tracking human flatulence in extraordinary detail. This week,…
Parrot Seduction, Clone Fatigue and The Most Stressful Truck Delivery in Europe
A parrot in New Zealand makes conservation work wildly uncomfortable, scientists cloned mice until the whole thing started breaking down, and someone has now successfully trucked anti matter across…
The Breaking Bad Effect, Obstetric Chainsaws and AI Trip Sitters
Breaking Bad looks a little more plausible than you would hope, the chainsaw has a deeply unsettling medical origin story, and people are now asking whether AI can guide them through a psychedelic…
Brain-Eating Amoebas, Economists vs. Everyone and Da Vinci's Robot Lion
Brain-eating amoebas, climate change, economists, and Leonardo da Vinci’s robot lion all collide in this week’s episode. We dig into how warming freshwater is helping dangerous amoebas spread into…
The Psychology of Conspiracies, Mushroom Hot Pot Trip and the Longest Botany Experiment Ever
Conspiracy theorists hate uncertainty, a mushroom hot pot in China can apparently summon tiny imaginary people, a bunch of seeds have been sitting underground since the 1800s waiting for their moment…
Why Venting Makes You Angrier, Neanderthals Preferred Human Women, and Fetuses Hate Kale"
Venting might be making you angrier, Neanderthals apparently had a type, and unborn babies are already forming strong opinions about kale. This week we bounce from modern psychology to ancient DNA to…
When AI Chooses Nukes, Norway's Brain Gun, and the Syndrome That Makes You a Foodie
This week, AI is casually reaching for the nuclear button, a Norwegian scientist has accidentally recreated something that looks a lot like Havana Syndrome, and a brain lesion has turned a marathon…
Hippo Castration, Heart Bypass Brain Fog and Sperm From Unexpected Places
This week we have hippos with hidden bits, hearts that take a mechanical detour, and a medical case study that will make you sit down and reconsider every life choice that led you to having a body.…
The Alien Economy Problem, Dream Engineering, and ER Horror Stories
What happens to the economy if aliens show up? Not the movie version. The real version where markets panic, confidence collapses, and everyone suddenly forgets how money is supposed to work. This…
Rogue Waves, Robot Skin, and Olympic Scandals
Winter Olympians are allegedly gaming their suit seams for extra lift, the ocean is still capable of throwing an absolutely giant wall of water at your face with no warning, and somewhere in…
Penis Evolution, Magic Mushrooms & Influenza Transmission
This week, we bounce between sex, psychedelics, and infectious disease, and somehow it all hangs together by the end. We unpack research on porn use that suggests the real issue is not how often…
Science Finds Heaven, Longevity Hacks and Smart Dogs
Everyone wants to live forever, dogs are out here doing actual jobs, and someone has tried to work out where heaven might be using astronomy. We dig into the strange science of longevity, including…
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