You've known for years that things like portion size, food availability and the colour of your plates affect your food intake... But it turns out the research it was based on was maybe a little bit bullshit?

Rod tells Will the story of Brian Wansink's strange food hack science!

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Apparently, Albert Einstein once claimed that “If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live”...

And since 2007, colonies of bees around the world have been mysteriously collapsing...

Will (and guest expert Saul Cunningham) get to the bottom of the story!

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Ok, we know that old timey people had some weird ideas about medicine... but when it comes to cures for sexual issues, it seems they'll try... anything.

Rod tells Will the story of old time aphrodisiacs!

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We all know about islands... and we all know about lakes. We know we can have islands in lakes, and even lakes on islands.

But did you know that there are lakes on islands in lakes? And even more, islands in lakes on islands in lakes?

Roger Dickey knew this... And he had a quest, to find the elusive fourth order island!

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A lot of people are held up as geniuses (genii?)... But most of them are just pretty smart and pretty lucky.

Paul Erdős though, he was something different.

Rod tells Will his story!

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As of recording on the 21 August 2020, some 566 have been to space.

345 have been American, 121 Russian Soviet. 65 have been women... And at least 7 have been smugglers. Will tells Rod the story of the secret things people have brought into space!

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Should you 'diet' to reduce your carbon impact? In this episode we discuss the carbon diet with Jo Clay, candidate for the Greens Party here in the current Australian Capital Territory election!

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***Warning, there is a *lot* of swearing in this episode!***

Listener, have you always wanted to have a swear word for those people who aren't impressed by amazing things? Well, Rod's got a swear word for you!

In this episode, Rod tells Will about the history and science of swearing!

***Second warning, there is a *lot* of swearing in this episode!***

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For a few short months between 1783 and 1785, France went absolutely nuts for balloons. In this episode, Will tells Rod the origin and development of balloonomania!

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Early scientific labs had a fairly different understanding of workplace health and safety to what we might see in labs today. In this episode, Rod tells Will some of the horror stories of the early work on x-rays!

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