Chad and Mike answer a listener question about hummingbirds and bird migration.

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Mike and Chad open up the mailbag to answer some listeners' burning questions about what happens during hot weather.

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Mike and Chad discuss NASA's recent announcement of sending two new probes to study Venus.  We talk about why Venus is interesting and what these probes plan to do.

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Chad and Mike invite Andrew Suarez to discuss trap jaw ants.  These ants have specialized mandibles that are able to snap shut, similar to that of a mouse trap, in order to fight and to flee.

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Mike and Chad talk about the fundamentals of quantum computing and why anybody would want to learn how to make a computer behave as a quantum system.

 

 

 

This episode is dedicated in memory of Don Crosser.

Chad and Mike discuss the Brood X of cicadas that will soon be making noise across much of the Eastern United States.  They only come out of the ground to mate once every 17 years, so this is quite the event.

In this rebroadcast, Mike and Chad invite Leonard Finkelman from the Philosophy department into the studio in order to discuss what is science and what is pseudo scientific junk?

In this rebroadcast from 2019, Chad and Mike discuss whether animals have consciousness and what tools can be used to assess whether they do or not.

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Chad and Mike talk about animal toxins (venoms and poisons), how nature has developed many different kinds, and how they can be used as medicine.

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Chad and Mike discuss the non-intuitive result that, despite having a warming planet, it is more likely to have extreme winter weather events.

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