@sciencemug

Ooh hello dear listener, in this episode I'll tell you the 2nd part (total 3) of the story about the debunking of the myth that there are 10 bugs in/on humans for each human cell. In this part you'll find out how many human cells actually form the human body, and which cells are the most numerous (spoiler: they are the favorites of vampires...). Read the post here: https://tinyurl.com/y4jhzef2 Ciaz&Enjoy!

The gang celebrated the reason of this short audio visiting the homepage of every pub's website of Ireland and ending up arrested for disorderly conduct by Chief Wiggum after attempting to have a fight with a banner of the WSFUPBNG (the Wrestler and Sumo Fighters Union of Papua Brand New Guinea).

Luckily for them, the banner's wife (a lovely .gif of a cat doing a cat thing) was moved by the ridiculously scared expression of PiPs, and convinced her husband not to press chargess... Based on a true story! Ciaz!

Ooh hello dear listener, in this episode I'll tell you the first part (total 3) of the story about the death of the urban legend/scientific myth according to which in/on human beings there are 10 times more bacteria than actual human cells.

It's a tale of perseverance, poop (kinda) and, of course, solid science.

Find the post here: https://tinyurl.com/y46awupu

Enjoy!

Ohhh happy most fake festivity of 'em all aka Valentine's Day, dear listener!

To celebrate this nonsense here for you a new episode 'bout a paper that tells something reeeally unexpected: red roses and chocolates are judged more positively near Valentine’s Day than during the rest of the year (at least in the USA). Wow, mind-blowing! Then it explains also why it's like that.

Find the related post here: https://tinyurl.com/yytsrvhs.

Enjoy&ciaz!

Ooooh eventually the scientists of the roads who did the map of the parts of the world that have no roads (and, in the process, by-discovered how to live in peace with the mischievous GPS with a taste for ruining your trips) explain why they decided to stalk the world's roads and why it is important to preserve roadless areas around the globe.

Find the post here: https://tinyurl.com/y8bqt98o

Enjoy&Ciaz!

Oooooh, well, the road scientists are still at work to find out who's eating all the asphalt of the world causing a dramatic global shortage of bends and center lines... Naa, but they check out data-sets and stuff to see how many roadless areas are inside protected zones, and more... Enjoy.

The post is here: http://www.sciencemug.com/2018/04/the-roads-researchers-map-pt-34.html

Ciaz!

Haaaaallooo dear English thinking-reading-speaking-hearing listener, in this new episode I'll keep on telling you the story of those scientists that create a map of the roadless areas still existing in the world, stalk 'em to find their whereabouts and score 'em according to how good they look when wearing wet shirts... Naa, but the science dudes actually check where the roadless areas are and get all judgmental about their (the roadless areas) ecological value. Read the post here: https://goo.gl/Tvz4sR Enjoy&Ciaz! @sciencemug

Haaaaallooo dear English thinking-reading-speaking-hearing listener, in this new episode I'll tell you the story of how ten scientists create a map of the roadless areas still existing in the world, then use it to find all the suspicious & big "X"es existing on land, ask around for "research" funds to get to those promising signs and start using highly technologically advanced tools (i.e. shovels) in the hope to dig up the Holy Grail of all researchers: tenure. Naaa, they do the map, though...

Read the post here: https://goo.gl/Up4Wzk

Enjoy&Ciaz!

@sciencemug

Ten seconds to tell you, dear English thinking, speaking, reading, hearing worshipper of podcasts, that I'm coming back!

Soon!

With brand-new episodes (aaand unfortunately the same lack of a brain...).

Ciaz

@sciencemug

Episode number 8 of @sciencemug's podcast tells you that on Valentine's Day there's an increase in births: women are influenced by the cultural value of this day as they associate positivity and propitiousness to this festivity and appear to have a certain control on the timing of births. The Valentine's Day birth story is told in 2011 by three scientist from Yale on a paper appeared on the journal "Social Science & Medicine" [a journal cofunded by the industry of chocolate and roses but highly opposed by the lobby of Halloween and the GAPP (the Global Association of Pumpkins Producers). Listen to the podcast to understand why...]. The text and comics are here: http://goo.gl/hdzTe8

Ciaz! SM