In this episode, Chad tells Mike about slime mold, which has uncanny abilities that seem very smart, despite not having a brain.

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In this episode, Chad and Mike discuss how vaccines work, both to protect a single individual and to build a community's herd immunity.

 

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In this episode, Chad and Mike discuss how to find the age of something using radioactive dating.

 

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In this episode, Chad and Mike discuss the weather on Jupiter.  What causes the bands and what is the Red Spot?  The causes of these are all similar to weather on Earth.

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In this episode, Chad and Mike discuss how evolution involves making small changes to existing structures, rather than building new systems from intentional designs.  The development of lungs is used as an example.

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In this rebroadcast, Chad and Mike discuss lightbulbs, how different types produce light and which types of bulbs are better.

 

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This is a rebroadcast of an episode from last September about wildfires and fire management.

In this episode, Chad and Mike invite Chuck Dunn into the studio to talk about infinity.  He uses some analogies to describe real mathematical contexts in which infinity comes up.

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In this episode, Chad and Mike invite Greg Jones to drink wine and talk about how it gets made.

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In this episode, Chad and Mike tackle the questions of how the universe started and how it will end.  And all the evidence supporting these answers.

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