Topics discussed: You like animals? We got animals! Smart animals like chimps! Dumb animals like koalas! Crows that can recall a face and geckos making love in space! Not to mention superb fairy-wrens, cuckoo birds, sponges, woodpeckers, turkeys, cats, guinea pigs, sea otters, and many more! Plus, some stuff about humans, I guess. Also we bang jars together.

Topics discussed: Bad science and crackpot theories abound! We click the Dislike button on Facebook and its research, weather a hurricane of bad statistics, and teach you how to see in the dark through the miracle of brain damage! Plus, what other podcast gives you coverage of both Jennifer Aniston AND 13-year-old Ukrainian boys?

Topics discussed: Cleopatra and woolly mammoths; a grand u(ri)nified theory; bloody salty sharks and potty-mouthed turtles; the magnetic declination of canine defecation; and a wetness down under leads us to contemplate whether Les Cousins Dangereux is obscene. Clearly, our classiest episode yet!

Topics discussed: Crazy cat ladies (or gentlemen); freaky parasites; spiders and elephants on drugs; the steampunk animal kingdom; pub(l)ic demonstrations of erectile dysfunction remedies and other self-experimentation goodness; and how to cut out the middleman by brewing beer right in your own... stomach. With special guest star ANDY BELLEMER!!!

Topics discussed: Chlorophyll, hemoglobin, and refried beans; warp drives and (at)tractor beams; comet tails and solar sails; dueling fails and moose in ales; historical pets; kissing cousins; kissing parrots; radioactive brains; red-hot nickel balls and red-hot giraffe love. Also, check us out now on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and GeoCities! (OK, maybe not GeoCities.)

Topics discussed: Ancient nuclear reactors, giant moons, Richard Feynman scooping the entire field of cognitive psychology while doing his laundry, burning oneself and touching snakes in the name of science, kikis, boubas, and more! Listen to (and/or see/smell/taste/feel) us talk about synesthesia! And somehow we manage to get through the entire episode without making a "Uranus" joke... until the title.

Topics discussed: Rhymes (nursery, Snoop Dogg's), lads' mags, a lather rong discussion of Japanese consonant confusion, crazy old scientists, mind-altering backpacks, mirror neurons, feeling empathy, feeling air, testing tastes and tasting testes. Plus, rainbows and lots and lots of psychopaths! With special guest star LAURIE SKELLY!!!

Topics discussed: Radioactive cookies & cursed frogurt; self-referential aptitude tests; virtual spermatozoa; mean triangles; telepathic tompeepery; and computers that play write pop songs, critique screenplays, and play old-school Super Mario Bros. Plus, blood!

Topics discussed: Giant insects; Twinkies; the general fickleness of taste perception; food-ish things that may or may not be either good or bad for you; Japanese centenarians; the voices of physics; why naked mole rats don't get cancer; clouds of bacteria; whiskey stones; oblique references to songs of the 1980s.

Topics discussed: Lots about colo(u)r perception; types of primates; Eskimo words for snow; the (in)efficiency of different languages; and seduction techniques of bonobos, cannibalistic fish, pandas, raging bulls, moose, and humans.