English & Canadian pop songs are getting more depressing and the Herp is (not) waking up in the Siberian permafrost.  Also, Carly Rae Jepson is fettered by her happy songs.  And for some reason, we didn't curse the entire time.

Links:

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Jeff’s BBC article

Rob’s Royal Society of Open Science article and the Jezebel hit piece

Toilet flush from Polytest at Freesound.org

Viral slushies, catching the Golden State Killer and ancient hepatitis viruses.

From passive aggressive urination to unintentional oral sampling one's fecal microbiota and moon rocks - this episode's a roller coaster of emotions.  

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Rob's robots, where we get our information, finishing up with a bit of analysis of pornographic consumption patterns.  And beer.

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Sites & blogs we mentioned:

Small Things Considered

Neurologica

Sandwalk

John Hawks

History of the Earth

The Junto

Paul Sutter

Science magazine

Science Daily

Livescience

Journals

PLOS Medicine, Genetics & Biology

AJHG

National Association of Science Teachers

Journal of Cell Biology Education

Research for All

Podcasts

This Week in Virology

Medieval Death Trip

PusCast

Imaginary Worlds

Annals of Improbable Research

Pod Stallions

DNA Day

Promedmail

iO9

Wiki Top25 report

Pornhub insights (I’m on my work computer, you can go ahead and Google that yourself)

Soundeffects:

Freight train & crossing: Sailor55, Freesound.org

Music: Night Train, The Mad Caps, Archive.org

Sorry for the weird quality of the sound from my end, there were weird audio surges that I tried to edit out.

Tolkien move aside, now we have a trilogy too.  We talk about our science heros and the influential people in our science lives. And: a short bonus discussion of the potty talk in  Ready Player One!

Rob’s Heros

Carl Sagan

Marty Crouch

Marlin Perkins & Jim (Wild Kingdom)

Stephen J Gould

NASA Astronauts

Museums docents

(Museum docents training programs)

Jeff’s Heros

Marie Tharp

Antoine van Leeuwenhoek

Ignaz Semelweis

Henrietta Lacks

(Howard Jones - the doctor who first cultured her cells)

Rosalind Franklin

Rob’s influences

Mr Effinger & Dr Saxman

Dr. Eddie Srour & Dr. Christie Traycoff

Tom Prior & Jim Waldman

Jeff’s influences

Dad & Mr Fernandez

Brad and Sue

Linda & Jerry Boss

We each share science fields that, while we would look like boobs talking about in a roomful of people, fascinate us.  Plus - a commercial!

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Rob & Jeff talk about the paths they followed into science and to their Bachelor's degrees.  Scuba diving in the Florida Keys (he counted them) and commercial fishing in Alaska (I killed them). 

Original Cosmos with Carl Sagan on Youtube

Updated Cosmos with Neil Degrasee Tyson at National Geographic

Yes Jeff, Joni Mitchell did sing it before CS said it (here)

The NOAA diving program (here)

National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science