Weird: The Podcast

Weird: The Podcast episodes

June 11, 2024 Moth Vacations and Deep Sea Peril
Katie tells us why moths need a summer vacation, and Amy talks about people dying in the ocean.
1 hr 7 min
May 27, 2024 Lemming Lies and the Blindness-Schizophrenia Connection
Katie breaks the news that we've all been lied to about the habits of lemmings and Amy discusses the connection between blindness and schizophrenia.
46 min
May 13, 2024 Celebrity Monkeys and Frozen Frogs
Amy presents a study about monkey viewing preferences and Katie discusses how animals survive extreme cold!
References:
Deaner RO, Khera AV, Platt ML. Monkeys pay per view: adaptive valuation of social images by rhesus macaques. Curr Biol. 2005 Mar 29;15(6):543-8. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.01.044. PMID: 15797023.
59 min
May 06, 2024 Zombie Ants and Lethal Shrimps
Katie tells us how to make an ant think it's dead, and Amy talks about shrimp with similarities to firearms.
46 min
April 29, 2024 Egg Teeth, Fairy Fingers, and Sexual Suicide
Katie reviews the ways that animals escape from their eggs and other weird adaptions for being born. Amy discusses a tiny marsupial that exchanges sleep for sex before dropping dead.
39 min
April 22, 2024 Sexy Birds and Sea Unicorns
Amy presents a study about coloring barn swallows with a marker, and Katie discusses everything weird about narwhals.
1 hr 1 min

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