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A live show where comedians attempt to discover what a scientist does all day. Come laugh and learn about cutting edge science & what it takes to make it.... more
FAQs about Demystifying the Expert:How many episodes does Demystifying the Expert have?The podcast currently has 23 episodes available.
May 23, 2023Kevin Giovanetti: on vanishing neutrinos, muons' (magnetic) moments, and teaching physics in germanComedians attempt to discover the latest news on neutrino detections, speculating neutrino types and their role in going beyond the standard model of fundamental physics, decades of observations of boson decay, high presicion calculations and anomalous (magnetic) moments for muons, along with irradiating pigs and having a c-section at the barber's shop (somewhere in Switzerland)....more1h 8minPlay
May 23, 2023Roger Thelwell: on synchrony with chaos, predicting climate tipping, drunken solutionsComedians attempt to discover the latest news on (dis)organization, equations framing synchrony whether or not interspersed with erratic constituents, and solutions from tiny luminiscent insects, along with adventures in sailing the Caribbean and being a peace corps volunteer; also, being born on Feb. 29....more1h 14minPlay
May 22, 2023Tina Rost: on high entropy oxides, a life-long girl scout and gamer, and pursuing mortuary scienceComedians attempt to discover the latest news on radiation sources for bending magnet beamlines, creep behavior and degradation of high-temperature materials, cleavage of crystals, high derivatives of motion (like jerk, snap, and crackle) and what all these have to do with toughness and fracture surface energy....more1h 13minPlay
May 17, 2021Klebert Feitosa: on the softness of sand, origami and space travel, and a 69-year long experimentComedians attempt to discover the latest news on what makes sand soft, how space travel challenges are solved with origami, and the "pitch drop" longest experiment ever run...more1h 10minPlay
March 03, 2020Nathan Wright: on folding proteins mess, genetic mutations, and being banned from WalmartComedians attempt to discover the latest news on some of the wonderful things that could happen when protein folding is messy, on dancing listening to genetic mutations, and also about... what it takes to be banned from Walmart. Save some laughs for the skit at the very end of the show!...more47minPlay
February 05, 2020Liz Johnson: on magmatic water, Virginia volcanoes, and dropping the world's oldest known mineralComedians attempt to discover the latest news on magmatic water,super-eruptions, Virginia volcanoes, the (in)famous Mole Hill (cycle that!), and what happened when one (yes, Liz) dropped the world's oldest known mineral on the lab floor....more54minPlay
June 20, 2019Kendra Letchworth-Weaver: quantum solid-liquid interfaces (cats included) and electrochemistryComedians attempt to explain how supercomputers are used to explain quantum mechanical systems in liquid environments, why it's not clear whether cats are liquids or solids, how nowadays it's possible to make water out of thin air, and why supercomputers are able to argue back....more1h 1minPlay
May 24, 2019Kevin Caran: on fishy supra-molecular organic systems, drugs, and bacterial resistanceComedians attempt to discover the latest news on our most potent antibiotics, antimicrobial plastics and resistance, and... singing about fishes....more58minPlay
April 03, 2019Gabriel Niculescu: on smashing atoms, morphing neutrinos, the God particle, and... guppies.Comedians attempt to discover the latest news on smashing atoms toreveal the key to the universe, morphing neutrinos, the God particle, the Romanian Revolution, and... guppies....more52minPlay
September 18, 2018Barbara Reisner: superconductivity, holography, and nano-sized virusesComedians attempt to explain superconductivity, some cosmic sources for this phenomenon, X-ray holography, as well as challenging themselves (or you!) with spelling names with elements on the periodic table....more48minPlay
FAQs about Demystifying the Expert:How many episodes does Demystifying the Expert have?The podcast currently has 23 episodes available.