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Completely Optional Knowledge
The podcast where we answer the questions you never knew you had. Produced by Andrew Norton with music by Breakmaster Cylinder.
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Listen to Completely Optional Knowledge, a Science & Medicine podcast by #CompletelyOptional. Stream 35 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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Why Do Frozen Lakes and Rivers Sound So Creepy?
Brigitta Green from the perennial winter wonderland of Minnesota has a fitting question for us about ice. After a mysterious, late night how...
What's The Coolest Species Name?
What's the coolest or weirdest official name for a species of plant or animal? And how do they get those funny sounding Latin names anyway?
Why Distinguish Between Fruits and Vegetables?
Is a watermelon a vegetable? Biologically it’s logical, but does the answer depend where you live?
Why Do Animals See Color Differently?
Zookeeper Rick asks why why animals see color differently? Dr. Jay Neitz of the University of Washington Department of Ophthalmology says th...
Do Animals Have Rituals Around Death?
Listener Ross Wintle, driving past a cemetery near his home, wonders if animals other than humans have rituals around death? Barbara J King,...
Why Do We Laugh At Pain?
Listener Matthew Hollingshead, a skateboard enthusiast, asks why it’s so funny to watch people get hurt. We’re not necessarily talking about...
Do Animals Have Eating Contests?
Hilah Johnson hosts a show about cooking (and, naturally, eating)and she came to us with a very on-brand question. Do animals have eating co...
What's Quantum Teleportation?
Listening to Shohini Ghose talk about what would happen if a human reached light speed in Episode 16, Fred Papon of Australia wanted to know...
How Do Animal Taste Buds Work?
Dallas College professor Patrick Moore, seeing his dog Abbey eating her own poo and swallowing dirty socks, wonders how animal tastebuds wor...
Why Do Siblings Have Rivalries?
Molly and John Knefel, sister and brother co-hosts of the daily podcast “Radio Dispatch” wonder why siblings become rivals. Naomi White, PhD...
What Does the Sun Sound Like? [rerun]
Inspired by freeze-dried ice cream at Space Camp, podcast producer of 99% Invisible Avery Trufelman wonders what the sun really sounds like...
Can Music Make You Hungry?
Breakmaster Cylinder, creator of the Completely Optional Knowledge theme music, wonders if music can be used to trigger specific responses i...
What Is Wind?
Lauren Ober is the host of WAMU's The Big Listen. She wanted to know the answer to a relatively simple question - what is wind? With help fr...
How Do You Take Great Photos From Space?
Jonathan Mehring has photographed all over the world, but there’s one place he hasn’t been yet that he’s dying to learn about: outer space....
Are There Lazy Ants?
Have you ever seen an ant just … hanging out? Completely Optional Knowledge listener Bryan Fox hasn’t, and it’s getting under his skin. To g...
Who Governs Space?
Who makes the rules in outer space? That’s what Completely Optional Knowledge listener Tim Burberich called in to find out. So we got in tou...
What's the Most Surprising Partnership Between Species?
Emily Schorr Lesnick is the co-host of the SoulGlo podcast, a show about how diversity helps humans thrive. Naturally, she wants to find out...
Do Invincible Creatures Exist?
Jessica Abel is working on a new book about Mars (Trish Trash: Rollergirl of Mars - available in November 2016) - which got her wondering ab...
What If I Went Light Speed?
Tom Sortodden wants to know what would happen if he went the speed of light. Physicist Shohini Ghose of Wilfrid Laurier University explores...
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