That's Not How Science Works

We were on an unannounced hiatus (let’s face it, all our hiatuses are unannounced), but we have returned! Caitlin and a (very congested) Nicole are back to talking about Marvel and, in particular, Spider-Man: Far from Home. The duo discuss the science of magic and just how far we are from real holograms. We also talk about the quite real and quite scary realm of deep fakes. What we do not discuss is what our superhero names would be, which in retrospect seems like a huge oversight. Nicole’s would be the Copyrighter, for the record.

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Alrighty, folks, we’ve come to the last of our alternative Flash shows: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. And we’re joined by the fabulous Nicole Sweeney of Snark Squad and Complexly! Woah, Caitlin and Nicole Prime are dazzled by her internet celebrity! And yes, obviously, Sweeney was informed of the rules for challenging Nicole Prime for Supreme Nicole of the Nerdy Podcasts, but she declined, to Nicole Prime’s great relief. We discuss the weirdness of messing with alien technology that’s giving off radiation. We also discuss the issues with suddenly depressurizing a plane. But most of all, Caitlin tries her best to scare everyone with true science.

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The OG Godzilla team is back together to discuss Godzilla: King of the Monsters, the sequel to the 2014 Godzilla. And wow. Just wow. The plot is something. There is a lot to talk about in this episode. How you can’t just mix together animal sounds to make a magical bioacoustic that allows you to talk to giant monsters. How monsters can’t just give off magic radiation that will heal the planet. How Caitlin, Nicole, and Madicken should apparently start an ASMR podcast with electronic dance music. Like I said, a lot to talk about.

Also, I just want to point out that our Godzilla episodes are cursed. In the first Godzilla episode, I (Nicole) had to rerecord a bunch of my dialogue because the website we were using to sync our audio also distorted it. Here, my microphone decided to stop working at some point, and then my laptop decided that it needed to be restarted about 15 minutes later. After it restarted and I checked my microphone, I swear I pressed record and then … it didn’t record. Fortunately I caught it after a few minutes, but basically, there’s a reason I suddenly drop in and out of this episode near the beginning. Also, Godzilla, I’m sorry for what we’ve done to offend you. Please forgive us! I wrote a song about you!

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Longtime TNHSW buddy Space Nicole is back to talk about Netflix’s reboot of Lost in Space. Will she challenge Nicole Prime to be Supreme Nicole of the Nerdy Podcasts? I guess you’ll just have to listen to find out! At any rate, there’s plenty of danger in the first two episodes of Netflix’s Lost in Space reboot and plenty more bad science, but the robot only says, “Danger, Will Robinson” once. ONCE. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

At any rate, back to science. Double Nicole and Caitlin discuss how you can’t just find yourself in a lake freezing around you from the bottom, how lots of elements burn white, poor shuttle design, and more! It’s a fun episode people!

Also the robot’s name is Larry. This is canon now, and we at TNHSW will not accept any other answers.

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Nicole and Caitlin are joined by Nicole’s friend Lynn, a neuroscientist who moved to San Francisco from Minnesota and who lived down the street from a bakery that probably sold broccoli pizza. No, seriously. This time Nicole isn’t just making stuff up for the sake of snarkiness. The TNHSW crew discusses the science of the brain and memory in the context of Inside Out. They also theorize about the brainy worldbuilding of the movie and its implications (as you do).

Once again, if you want to talk about the puzzling biology of the Cars franchise, hit Nicole up on Twitter @NicoleLuckless.

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They doubted us. They told us we were crazy. They said it we would never be able to accomplish this, that it would be too much for any one podcast to handle alone. BUT WE DID IT. WE FINISHED SEASON ONE OF THE FLASH, HATERS. Who exactly are these haters, you ask? Doesn’t matter, moving on.

In this episode, Caitlin and Nicole discuss the last episode of season one of The Flash and the first episode of season two of The Flash with their excellent friend Natalie! There is much ranting about singularities and black holes. We also finally discuss the burning topic that’s been looming over the podcast from the beginning: What on earth is a particle accelerator really? The answer might surprise you! (Ignore that clickbaity ending. The answer won’t surprise you. There is a 0% chance it will give you superpowers.)

Articles:

How Particle Accelerators Work: https://www.energy.gov/articles/how-particle-accelerators-work

What Exactly Is a Black Hole Event Horizon (and What Happens There)? https://www.space.com/black-holes-event-horizon-explained.html

What 10,000 Steps Will Really Get You: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/05/10000-steps-rule/590785

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The internet, the final frontier. These are the voyages of That’s Not How Science Works. To expose strange new science. To fact check new movies and new TV shows. To boldly go where no podcaster has gone before! Yes, that’s right folks. We’ve come to the mother of all science fiction shows: Star Trek. Caitlin and Nicole are joined by their friend Amanda to discuss one of the underrated Star Trek movies, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. We discuss some of the less plausible science in this movie specifically, such as the fact that you will not go into a hypothermia coma in under a minute and how it’s strange that you could pick up neutron radiation with a torpedo but not, say, a sensor on the bridge of your spaceship built to detect such things. We also touch on some of the science of Star Trek more broadly, including the implausibility of teleportation. (Sorry, Scotty!) However, maybe it’s just the fact that we’re used to the trash science of The Flash, but really, this science isn’t half bad. As it turns out, caring about “accuracy” and having “science advisors” that you actually “listen to” can make a world of difference in the plausibility of your show. Good work Star Trek! Now, if they had only done the same thing for Kirk’s combat skills…

Articles:

The science of Star Trek (from NASA): https://www.nasa.gov/topics/technology/features/star_trek.html

CDC PDF infographic about hypothermia and frostbite: https://www.cdc.gov/cpr/documents/hypothermia-frostbite_508.pdf

Cool antique toaster video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y

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Articles:

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sewer Gas … But Were Afraid to Ask

Powering CERN

Narwhal genetic diversity write-up in Science

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Michael took a break from packing up his cabin in Alaska in preparation to moving to the North Pole to discuss two more episodes of The Flash with us! First, we talk about finding bodies underground using sound and light (once again, FBI, Nicole says, “Hi”). We also discuss programmable matter and how a person cannot be made of it. Honestly, do the writers of The Flash know what a cell is? We then move into discussing applying stimulation to trigger lucid dreaming, listening to binaural beats for going to sleep, and different sleep cycles and … what is this? The writers … they wrote something halfway plausible instead of 0.2% plausible? WHAT UNIVERSE HAVE WE STUMBLED INTO? DID A PARTICLE ACCELERATOR JUST EXPLODE SOMEWHERE?

Articles:

The Promise and Peril of Programmable Matter: https://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/14967/The-Promise-and-Peril-of-Programmable-Matter.aspx

Using technology to locate mass graves: http://discovermagazine.com/2015/oct/14-body-of-evidence

The Limits of Ancestry DNA Tests, Explained: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/1/28/18194560/ancestry-dna-23-me-myheritage-science-explainer

How Big Data for DNA Puts You at Risk — Even If You’ve Never Taken a Test: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/16/18312048/dna-testing-genetic-privacy-data-at-home-family-tree-golden-state-killer-crime

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Caitlin and Nicole break from The Flash to talk about a movie that Nicole really loved and Caitlin really didn’t — Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom! Caitlin shows off her animal studies cred by discussing why you can’t just give a blood transfusion to a velociraptor from a T-rex … even if that velociraptor is by far the best character in the movie. Nicole and Caitlin also talk about the hazards of randomly shooting tranquilizers into a grown man, as well as the surprisingly good depiction of a volcanic eruption (aka, the second best character in the movie).

Also, Nicole didn’t get into this in the episode, but she really loves how Mr. DNA says “dinosaurs” in the first movie and just felt that you should know that.

Articles:

What vulcanologists thought of the Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom eruption

Science fact checking Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

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