That's Not How Science Works

Space Nicole is back to talk about The Flash, and she doesn’t even want to fight Nicole Prime for the title of “Supreme Nicole of the Nerdy Podcasts”! That is a huge relief to Nicole Prime. She did not want to rain fire and destruction on her friend. First, we talk about Mark Hamill, poison, and bombs. Yes, we are still referring to The Flash and not the 90s Batman animated series. Also, guess who did the research on bomb residue? (Dear FBI, Nicole says, “Hi.”) Then, Space Nicole tells us all about the aerodynamics of bees, which is fascinating. Also fascinating is the fact that Barry is unable to run away from bees and has magic lightning hands. You can’t make this stuff up, people.

Now that I think about it, maybe the problem is that the speedforce is afraid of bees?

Closing Music from Jukedeck - create your own at http://jukedeck.com (Okay, I had to put this in here per their license terms, but Jukedeck is not working right now, so this is a bald lie.)

Articles:

Bee Physics: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2141802-maths-explains-how-bees-can-stay-airborne-with-such-tiny-wings

How to survive a bee attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8jY-Sw0i2M

Video with 500 years of the top 10 most populous cities in < 1 minute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2uoqJmJaGo

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We’re a big fan of siblings on this show, and this time Caitlin’s brother Ryan joins us to talk about our old, reliable, science-baddie, The Flash. Although, honestly, there’s not that much to talk about with respect to the science this week. No, you cannot travel back in time by running really fast. No, you can’t create a wand that harnesses the weather. No, you can’t create a gun that turns things into gold. We thought those things were obvious. Apparently we were wrong. Writers of The Flash, we are always here to provide you with remedial science lessons should you ever choose to take us up on that offer. But hey, at least Captain Cold is back! We here on TNHSW are basically just Team Cisco and Team Cold. I guess that makes us Team Ciscold?

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Hey, it’s time for another break from The Flash! Caitlin and Nicole, who shall henceforth be known as “Nicole Prime,” welcome their friend also named Nicole, who shall henceforth be known as “Space Nicole,” and whom, although having intellect of the highest degree, is understood to serve below Nicole Prime in the TNHSW hierarchy. Should Space Nicole wish to supplant Nicole Prime as Supreme Nicole of the Nerdy Podcasts, Space Nicole must initiate a duel of strength, wits, or love of llamas (note: Nicole Prime does not recommend that last one for she shall always win by virtue of her excessive love of llamas). However, should such a duel be initiated by Space Nicole, the location and weapons of the duel shall be selected by Nicole Prime. Caitlin or another neutral third party of her choosing shall stand as witness and referee of the outcome and shall also confirm the winner of the duel as the new or existing Supreme Nicole of the Nerdy Podcasts with an impromptu karaoke duet of “Call Me Maybe”. As it is written here, so shall it be known within the TNHSW laws.

Whew, sorry folks, had to get that legalese out of the way. Where were we again? Oh, right! Caitlin, Nicole Prime, and Space Nicole discuss the 2017 film Geotrash … er, Geostorm starring a bunch of famous people and Gerard Butler. Hoo boy is the science bad. Did the writers know that you can watch videos of the life and times on the International Space Station on YouTube? Because we don’t think they did, and it shows. It really, really shows.

Articles:

Orbits, how do they work?

ISS Mission Page

Live Video Feed from ISS

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We welcome back special guest Madicken because this episode is about more nuclear nonsense in The Flash. Madicken and Caitlin (Nicole is absent due to sad, boring work reasons) discuss how hmm, yeah, no, combustion is not the same thing as a nuclear explosion. Madicken and Caitlin also rant about Nicole’s favorite ridiculous science moment in The Flash: Cisco making a three-dimensional hologram based on the night Barry’s mom died (and only that night) imprinting on an old silver mirror because mirrors are basically the same as photographs. Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh.

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Okay, we were on a hiatus due to boring work reasons/Caitlin being (kinda) useless when it comes to editing, but we are back, baby! We discuss the next two episodes of The Flash with Michael, who has returned from his off-the-grid life in [redacted] for reasons due to [redacted]. We start by talking about cochlear implants and tinnitus, which Nicole and Michael discovered that they both have! You’d think being siblings they would’ve figured that out before this episode! We also discuss resonance: what is it, what can it do, and what can it break? (Good news: not you). Then we talk about teleportation and light and who are we kidding ourselves… We mostly end up talking about Iris’s bad character development because the science is so patently wrong in this episode. It’s possible that Caitlin, Nicole, and Michael also consider themselves “critics” instead of just “science enthusiasts.” Folks, it’s only a problem if we become pretentious.

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Our guest this episode is not a scientist. In fact, you might say that he’s the reverse. We talk about the next two episodes of The Flash with Nicole’s brother, who is studying economics but who Nicole and Caitlin, in their desperation for guests, were able to con into appearing on this podcast. First, we discuss tachyons and how it’s pretty difficult to build a device with particles that we haven’t proven exist. Then the ice man cometh. That’s right, folks—it’s Captain Cold, part 2! And this time he’s brought along his brother he broke out of prison! Oh wait, wrong show. He’s brought along another criminal named Heat Wave! We’ll give you one guess as to what kind of gun he packs. We talk about the dangers of playing with fire when that fire is at the balmy Planck temperature. We also puzzle through what exactly F.I.R.E.S.T.O.R.M. is (seriously, could they have chosen a worse acronym) and what on this sandy earth Dr. Stein was trying to accomplish with it.

Also, we seriously apologize for the bad audio. We were using a program to record the audio as a group and did not realize until later that the program was garbling the audio. (You might be able to hear the same issues in the Godzilla episode. Again, apologies.) We are not using that program anymore, and Nicole has sworn it off as her mortal enemy, so we should not have audio problems like this in the future.

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Get excited, it’s the quantum episode! If we’ve learned anything from Ant-Man and the Wasp it’s that putting “quantum” in front of a word makes it “extra sciencey.” We talk about the quantum science in Ant-Man and the Wasp and how, weirdly, despite it being so far from reality, it doesn’t bother us all that much. We also discuss the bizarre density of the Ant-Man and Wasp suits and the even more bizarre fact that Scott Lang can somehow afford to live by himself in San Francisco.

Articles:

Explaining the Almost-Real Quantum Science of Ant-Man and the Wasp

The Shrinking Building in Ant-Man and the Wasp Would Cause Massive Problems

The Problem with DC Action Scenes

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Let them fight! That’s right folks, this week we are covering the 2014 version of Godzilla. Even more exciting, we feature an actual, real-life nuclear engineer to discuss all of the problems with nuclear power plants, nuclear bombs, nuclear radiation, nuclear banana bread, nuclear breath, nuclear sense of smell, and nuclear kung fu in the movie. Okay, it’s possible we may have made some of those up. There are so many problems with the science in this movie that it’s hard to keep track. You might even say that the science in this movie is a nuclear disaster (cue drum bu-dum).

Articles:

What is an EMP, and Could North Korea Really Use One Against the US?

Nukemap

Bryan Cranston’s Super Sweet 60

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We open on an electricity vampire. What? You haven’t heard of electricity vampires? They’re the black sheep of the Dracula family, obviously. We talk about how current and voltage can be used to kill a person. (NSA, Nicole promises that this is all theoretical science. Please, don’t put her on a no-fly list.) And then it’s the crossover episode of Flash v. Arrow! We know, you’re all shocked. In all fairness, this episode is way better than the Batman v. Superman movie, except for some color psychology nonsense that we discuss. I hear that Martha knows a lot about color psychology.

Articles:

A YouTube video discussing the difference between the effects of current and voltage

The Psychology of Color in Branding and Marketing

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Bomb Chicka Wow Wow! We first discuss bombs and how they cause damage through overpressure. Cool fact: When the writing team of The Flash writes down a number, there is a 92% chance they made it up. Then we discuss the physics of fighting and go through a bunch of calculations related to supersonic punches. Hey! Don’t tune me out now! It’s fuuuuun math about puuunches, okay, listeners. Fun math.

Articles:

Here’s the Wired article about running up buildings

A great article by FEMA about overpressure

Why Humans Can’t Run on Water

Why do they put the suits back on the mannequins? A web comic.

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