Exploring The Universe With Invisible Light (w/ Nicole Gugliucci)
Radio waves aren’t sound. They’re electromagnetic radiation and essentially a type of invisible light. Radio astronomer Nicole Gugliucci joi...
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What gets you curious? Virtual experiences, celestial bodies, water worlds or maybe just the tiniest mysteries inside your brain? The endlessly curious and curiously funny, Gillian Jacobs (C...
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Listen to Periodic Talks, a Science & Medicine podcast by Gillian Jacobs & Diona Reasonover. Stream 26 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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Do Birds Experience Love? (w/ Wenfei Tong, Olivia Scott Welch, Joel McHale)
Birds are simply captivating. We take a deep dive into their relationship dynamics, parenting habits and other behaviors with biologist and...
Why Cities Are Abandoned (w/ Annalee Newitz, Sarah Ramos)
Cities aren’t meant to last, according to writer Annalee Newitz. In their book “Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age,” they e...
Making Our Show Music
We’re off this week, but we wanted to share a bonus behind the scenes exclusive: Creating the sound for our show. We’re joined by senior aud...
Mysteries Of The Brain (w/ Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, Mary Steenburgen)
Can you imagine hearing music all day, every day? Mary Steenburgen says that’s her reality. The Oscar-winning actress and songwriter joins u...
How Do You Power A Space Station? (w/ Penni Dalton, Tracy Drain, Mikey Alfred)
A roughly 1-million pound space station orbits our planet every day. Wanna know how they keep the lights on? Battery Subsystem’s Manager Pen...
EXCLUSIVE: Jack Black’s Mother Helped Get Apollo 13 Astronauts Home (w/ Astronaut Victor Glover, Jack Black, Neil Siegel)
Astronaut Victor Glover joins us after an extended stay on the International Space Station. He gets personal, sharing his launch day music p...
Roman Mars On The Anatomy Of A Good Story (w/ Michelle Fournet, Roman Mars, Pedro Pascal)
This week, we’re immersed into the world of sound. First, we’re deep in the ocean with acoustic ecologist Michelle Fournet. She shares some...
Genetics 101, And Thinking Critically About Our DNA (w/ Dr. Janina Jeff, Mary H.K. Choi, Danny Pudi)
Humans are about 99.9% the same genetic material. The little that makes us different tells fascinating stories about our ancestors and histo...
A Beginner’s Guide To Astonishing Volcanoes (w/ Kayla Iacovino, Zazie Beetz, Robin Tunney)
We need to talk about volcanoes. Seriously. From the Pacific Ring of Fire to Mount Erebus, which holds an active lava lake, volcanoes have a...
Assassin Spiders Are Wild (w/ Hannah Wood, Cast of Fear Street)
Spiders have been getting a bad wrap, according to expert Hannah Wood. We talk about how they’ve evolved over hundreds of millions of years,...
Mind Bending Theories About Space-Time (w/ Dr. Clifford V. Johnson, Kirby Howell-Baptiste)
Why is Hollywood obsessed with time travel? Theoretical physicist Dr. Clifford V. Johnson breaks down black holes, string theory, science co...
Season 2 Is Coming July 13th!
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Let’s Play Dungeons and Dragons! (w/ Felicia Day, Erika Ishii, Jasmine Bhullar)
This is literally our most fun episode yet. Listen to our full game of D&D with Felicia Day (Supernatural, Buffy), Erika Ishii (Apex Legends...
Why Do We Play Games? (w/ Mitu Khandaker, Felicia Day, Erika Ishii, Jasmine Bhullar)
What can games tell us about who we are? Game designer Mitu Khandaker sees a connection between the earliest forms of play and modern day vi...
Your Brain On Music (w/ Dr. Indre Viskontas, Jessie Ennis, Brie Larson)
Why do we put on sad songs for a good cry? Why do certain melodies give us the chills? We get the details from neuroscientist and singer Dr....
The Science Of Cooking (w/ J. Kenji López-Alt)
Food writer J. Kenji López-Alt gets us thinking about cooking as a science. A kitchen is kind of like a lab. So, what experiments do you do?...
Birds Are Tiny Dinosaurs (w/ Dr. Jingmai O'Connor, Ken Jeong)
How do fossil hunters know where to dig? How is it possible dinosaurs are still flying in the sky? What are feathers? Paleontologist Dr. Jin...
What Does A Scientist Look Like? (w/ Raven Baxter, Sasheer Zamata)
Raven Baxter, aka Raven The Science Maven, is a rapper, YouTube personality and yes, a scientist. She answers our every question about molec...
Designs For Life (w/ Camila Chiriboga, Briana Venskus)
It’s beyond time to think about how we live in what we wear, according to Camila Chiriboga, an emerging clothing designer from Ecuador. We t...