Abby and Amy get their heads in the game and ask: do hockey superstitions really work? Discussion topics include voting as an act of teen rebellion, octopus symbolism, and an ethically questionable use of research methods.

Our music is Marie Curie by The Crypts!, from the album Discover Science.

Abby and Amy could be talking about literally anything in this wide world of Oasis-free topics, but instead they’re asking: how frequently is Wonderwall really played on acoustic guitar? Discussion topics include virtually every musician that is not Oasis, pretending to have ever enjoyed Franzen, the Pokemon Go of research studies, and Abby’s illustrious musical past.

Our music is Marie Curie by The Crypts!, from the album Discover Science.

Abby and Amy get back to their linguistics roots and spend over an hour asking: Does the social media you use affect how you interpret the semantic content of a hashtag? Discussion topics include being too old to understand the #Youth, explaining Reddit to your academic adviser, code blending on the internet, and hashtagging words good.

Our music is Marie Curie by The Crypts!, from the album Discover Science.

Abby and Amy ask: do people born in the suburbs tend to settle in cities more often than average and vice versa? Discussion topics include being pop punk in high school, Abby introducing Amy to the world’s truest piece of art, and ultra-cool dwarves.

Our music is Marie Curie by The Crypts!, from the album Discover Science.

In the flagship episode of More Research Required, Abby and Amy give up on making a research methods podcast and make five Hunger Games fancasts instead while asking the question: Does your birth order have an effect on your opinion of Katniss’s initial sacrifice in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games? Discussion topics include unabashedly cash-grabbing taglines, Suzanne Collins’ sibling revenge, the debatable value of the mean, and deep psychosocial analysis of the Hunger Games series.

Our music is Marie Curie by The Crypts!, from the album Discover Science. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Crypts_1935/Discover_Science/The_Crypts_-_02_-_Marie_Curie