This week on Stupid Human Suits we have our first return guest, astrophysicist and Columbia PhD candidate, Moiya McTier. Moiya stops by to explain to us that, no, we aren't about to make first contact with the aliens from Trappist-1, but the discovery is still really cool anyway.

OMG, How About Those 7 Planets! (with Moiya McTier)

You are a completely insignificant, totally random evolutionary accident who could die any moment for no discernible reason. Fun, right? 

Nearly everyone, at one time or another, has looked down at their body and thought, “What is this thing? How the hell did I get in here? What is an ‘I’ anyway and how much pizza can I put in it?” But almost no one asks those questions out loud for fear of making others uncomfortable. 

Well, good news. Stupid Human Suits is all about that uncomfortable...ness. Each week, life/comedy partners Carol and Sean chat with a different guest about their obsessions with death, aging, the limitations of being in these bodies, our relative insignificance in the universe and other light topics. Sometimes it’s gross. Sometimes it’s sad. Sometimes it’s hopeful. And curiously, a lot of times it’s funny.

Music: Kevin MacLeod, incompetech.com  Illustration: William Cheselden, Skeleton Praying, Osteographia, 1733

Comedy

You are a completely insignificant, totally random evolutionary accident who could die any moment for no discernible reason. Fun, right? Nearly everyone, at one time or another, has looked down at their body and thought, “What is this thing? How the hell did I get in here? What is an ‘I’ anyway and how much pizza can I put in it?” But almost no one asks those questions out loud for fear of making others uncomfortable. Well, good news. Stupid Human Suits is all about that uncomfortable...ness. Each week, life/comedy partners Carol and Sean chat with a different guest about their obsessions with death, aging, the limitations of being in these bodies, our relative insignificance in the universe and other light topics. Sometimes it’s gross. Sometimes it’s sad. Sometimes it’s hopeful. And curiously, a lot of times it’s funny. Music: Kevin MacLeod, incompetech.com Illustration: William Cheselden, Skeleton Praying, Osteographia, 1733

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OMG, How About Those 7 Planets! (with Moiya McTier)

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