The Sub Standard Model

The Sub Standard Model

By Henry Leitch & Sam PickettComedyScienceImprovNatural Sciences
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The Sub Standard Model episodes

  • E13: Spinal Asparagus Plastic
    1. Who littered in my broccoli?
    2. What if a grape was meat?
    3. Why is there evil dust at the bottom of the sea?
    4. Could a watermelon ever write poetry?


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    28 min
  • Henry's Special Fourier Rant: Directors Cut With Subtitles
    1. Maths Of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle.
    2. Maths Of Diffraction Patterns.
    3. Maths Of Smudgy Space Photos.
    4. Maths Of Podcast Editing.


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    28 min
  • Henry's Special Electromagnetic Rant: Directors Cut With Subtitles
    1. How do we know how fast light travels?
    2. How does a Magnetic field create an electric field?
    3. What is the maths that describes these fields?

    

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    31 min
  • E12: Scotch Cocaine Termites
    1. A deep dive into everything invented in Scotland (AND WE MEAN EVERYTHING).
    2. The neurobiology of cocaine addiction.
    3. How big can an animal city get? (VERY BIG)


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    30 min
  • E11: Sentient Fungal Retinas
    1. How feasible are ZOMBIES?
    2. Trees have eyes, not a question, not a joke, not a play on words, THEY HAVE BEEN LOOKING AT YOU.


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    35 min
  • E10: Naked Copper Rainbows
    1. How did the eel kill the horse?
    2. Why does petrol look so pretty?
    3. How did the rat say nah to cancer?
    4. Is squirt pee?

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    1 hr 19 min
  • Sam's Special Language Rant: Director's Cut With Subtitles

    Sam talks about the Pirahã people and what they can tell us about thinking. Henry wishes he did biology.

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    35 min
  • TRAILER

    The second series of this show, if you didn't realize we did series on this show it's because we didn't. But everything with the new logo and marked series 2 is now classed as part of the new series.

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    2 min
  • E9: Glass Laser Bells
    1. Why has Bell's inequality led to the most profound discovery in modern physics?
    2. How do LASERs work?
    3. What are sea squirts/porks/cucumbers/grapes?
    4. Has Sam found a new henge?


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    1 hr 20 min
  • E8: Parametrically Curved Orthodoxes
    1. Sam and Henry discuss time travel and the bootstrap paradox.
    2. Before promptly descending into pure chaos as we seek to evaluate many of nature's greatest paradoxes.
    3. They aren't that confusing right?


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    43 min

About The Sub Standard Model

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This is a subjectively comedic podcast by scientists for scientists.


"On this sciencey show, we answer the questions you never thought to ask, did not want to ask and did not…