For our very first live show at PodCon 2, we were joined by Elah Feder, the co-host and producer of the podcast Undiscovered! Podcasting on a stage with a live audience meant we really had to bring our A-game, so we swapped stories of famous actors, politicians, and other celebrities who also dabbled in science.

 

Sources:

[Truth or Fail]

http://ancientolympics.arts.kuleuven.be/eng/TC003EN.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/old-world-high-tech-141284744/

[Fact Off]

Julia Child:

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2015-featured-story-archive/shark-repellent.html

https://appliedecology.cals.ncsu.edu/absci/wp-content/uploads/Stroud-et-al-2014.pdf

https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/4935

https://faculty.washington.edu/sisneros/Sisneros%20and%20Nelson%202001.pdf

Zeppo Marx: 

[Ask the Science Couch]

Brian May’s thesis: 

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/295744.pdf

https://www.space.com/5692-queen-guitarist-publishes-astrophysics-thesis.html

http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/cosmic_reference/zodydust.html

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1994IAUS..160..127D

[Butt One More Thing]

Dr. Rush’s Bilious Pills:

https://io9.gizmodo.com/archaeologists-tracked-lewis-and-clark-by-following-the-1727887223

https://www.nps.gov/jeff/learn/historyculture/medrush.htm

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.