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Esther Odekunle studies the neurophysiology of Starfish, and your brain. She teaches us how starfish vomit out their stomachs, how "sensitive" they are and what they're sperm looks like, lol! She also explains the beautiful way in which she found science and teaches us about her science communication.

What Did We Learn This Week:

2:26 - New research on why elephants get drunk

5:12 - How gratitude makes you have better sex

INTERVIEW W/ DR. ESTHER:

9:12

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Does being born first make you smarter? Does having more siblings mean less parental care? There is a lot of scientific information on birth order, but what does the most recent research say?

WHAT DID WE LEARN THIS WEEK?:

5:33 - How electricity changed our evenings

10:13 - Are Filipino Flying Foxes, really THAT BIG!?!?

STUDYTIME:

15:58 - Recent research on Birth Order

 

 

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"Can I Speak To The Manager" is Greg's other podcast where he and his co-host study an artists career to decide why they're famous, what went wrong and how they should comeback. This weeks episode is about Ke$ha / Kesha! Greg went from like to love with Kesha, but will admit things have gone wrong. So find out how they think she should comeback, and subscribe for weekly episodes!

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Kyne teaches math to millions, IN DRAG! We find out why she started, how she makes her famous TikTok's and how she combats racism with MATH! We even live love laugh about her upcoming stint on Canada's Drag Race!

What Did We Learn This Week?:

1:08 - How racist science created anti-immigration policy

4:48 - NASA names their agency headquarters after Mary Jackson!!!

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New technology can track protests and study the effectiveness of mass movements, so do they work?

What did we learn this week:

1) How humans perceive time differently

2) A new structure discovered near the Earth's core

Studytime:

How new technology can track and study protests.

The psychology of how protests work and why it's important to gather en masse

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Darrion Nguyen a.k.a. Lab Shenanigans hilariously teaches millions about science on TikTok. We love his videos, and wanted to talk about how he makes them, being queer in science and what the future of a lab technician / TikToker will be!

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Scientific studies show racism is real, and both psychologically and physiologically damaging. At the same time, STEM is dominated by systemic racism. How do we as white people and science communicators help? We'll explain important studies about how racism works and also grapple with the whiteness of science.

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Scientific studies find that Animal Crossing can improve social behaviour but contribute to negative ideals, such as, unchecked neo-liberal free market capitalism! Mitch and Greg explain hilarious studies about the popular video game. Mitch LOVES IT and Greg has NEVER PLAYED IT!

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Michael Moore's new documentary "Planet Of The Humans" attacks the environmental movement and has over 8 million views on YouTube. We watched it so you don't have too. We followed it up with research to help you get to the bottom of why this movie is SO MESSED UP!

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Greg and Mitch talk to Joan Donovan from the Harvard Kennedy School about how conspiracy theories work, how to stop them and what we can expect for our SPOOKY FUTURE!

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