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00:00:00 - Researchers have determined that if you want one big skip instead of many little skips you should select a potato-shaped rock ins...

00:00:00 - Ryan is joined by cookbook author and YouTuber J. Kenji López-Alt to discuss his latest book The Wok: Recipes and Techniques , av...

00:00:00 - Manly Ryan North ( @ryanqnorth ) returns to the show to talk to Ben and Handsome Ryan (not a self-selected nickname) to talk abou...

00:00:00 - Kelly and Ryan are thrilled to be joined by her friend and colleague, Dr. Andrew Forbes ! He's a parasitic insect kind of guy (no...

00:00:00 - Time for a special edition Science… sort of Book Club! Ryan, Joe, and Tim all read Andy Weir's new novel Project Hail Mary . What...

00:00:00 - There's a new telescope in town to look out of town and see exactly what's going on in this here galaxy. Introducing… the James W...

00:00:00 - Joe and Ryan are excited to be joined by Craig Welch and Sam Howe Verhovek who each have articles in the October 2021 issue of Na...

00:00:00 - Joe and Ryan are joined by their friend Dr. Antonio "Tony" Munoz , who tells us about his work as a scientist and his journey fro...

00:00:00 - In which Ryan introduces the concept of this type of episode… for the last time. (But which can be previously heard in episodes 2...

00:00:00 - Ryan is joined by Megan Johnson ( @mmjohnso ), Becca Van Hoeck ( @becca_vanhoeck ), and Caitlin Bergstrom ( @caityydid ). Megan a...

00:00:00 - Dr. Arik Kershenbaum ( @arikkershenbaum ) stops by to talk about his new book, The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals...

00:00:00 - Carl Zimmer ( @CarlZimmer ) has returned to the show to talk to us about his new book, Life's Edge: The Search For What It Means...

00:00:00 - Returning guest Jen Gallagher ( @yeastychic ) has brought along two former students to talk about their continued research into t...

00:00:00 - Kelly and Ryan are psyched to be joined by Gina Zwicky ( @GinaGoesOutside ) to talk about all things herps (amphibians + reptiles...

00:00:00 - The Triassic Period was clearly a tough time to be alive, since a lot of things kept dying. Researchers have recently uncovered a...

00:00:00 - Thanks to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the AGU Fall Meeting had to go all online, but that didn't showing up and recording some...

00:00:00 - Ryan is joined by Jesse B. Grove V to discuss the highly anticipated sci-fi action thriller, Christopher Nolan's TENET . Jesse is...

00:00:00- We're doing another Anchor-themed clip show! Following up on episodes 266 , 282 , and 326 we have another round of short audio cli...

00:00:00 - Abe and Ryan are joined by paleontologists Lindsey Yann and Advait Jukar ( @amjukar ) to talk about all manner of proboscideans!...

00:00:00 - Researcher Daniel Katz and journalist Lucas Joel ( @LucasVanWykJoel ) join Ryan to talk about Dan's research into Detroit's polle...

00:00:00 - Joe begins the show by explaining how we all just nearly died last month but didn't as an asteroid had the closest flyby of Earth...

00:00:00 - Phosphine has been detected in the atmosphere of Venus, where it shouldn't exist . How could it have formed in detectable quantit...

00:00:00 - Charlie, Abe, and Ryan are joined by Sommelier Kristy Wenz because we're talking about wine! Why wine? Stay tuned to the drinks s...

00:00:00 - We're doing another Anchor-themed clip show! Following up on episodes 266 and 282 , we have another round of short audio clips th...

00:00:00 - First up, we discuss the evolution of thalattoscuhians, or crocodilians who evolved to live life in the seas, based on CAT scans...

00:00:00 - Ryan is joined by Lisa Lundgren and Gabriel Santos , two of the heads of Cosplay for Science , an organization that uses elaborat...

00:00:00 - This episode Ben and Ryan are joined by Ph.D. student and podcaster Kathryn Cogert (@KathrynIsabel) , who specializes in mimickin...

00:00:00 - We are joined by cartoonist Jeffrey Brown to talk about his work. First up, we discuss his Lucy & Andy Neanderthal series about a...

00:00:00 - New experimental research shows that there might still be volcanoes active on Venus , which is a big deal since it has long been...

00:00:00 - Patrick puts forth proposals for less automobile-focused cities (see more on his Twitter feed @pvwheatley ) before we dive into p...

00:00:00 - We welcome back our old buddy Jacob Stump as he joins to discuss the evolution of the human big toe , which is more interesting t...

00:00:00 - Asher Elbein ( @asher_elbein ) is still back but this time he and Ryan get really nerdy (if you believe that's even possible afte...

00:00:00 - Asher Elbein ( @asher_elbein ) is back to talk about feral hogs! If you listen to Reply All you may have already heard some of hi...

00:00:00 - Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson returns to the show to talk about his new book, Letters from an Astrophysicist. In addition to book chat,...

00:00:00 - For our first topic, Ryan, Ben, and Joe explore the theory that the oddly-shaped space rock Oumumua is actually an alien reconnai...

00:00:00 - For this episode, we're joined by Peter Brannen ( @PeterBrannen1 ), author of the book T he Ends of the World: Supervolcanoes, Le...

00:00:00 - Paleontologist Adam Pritchard ( @PTPritchard ), post-doc at NMNH and future Assistant Collections Manager at VNMN , joins Ryan to...

00:00:00 - Joe brings his friend and historian Kristina Gaddy ( @kgadz ) onto the show to talk about Chessie, the supposed sea monster of th...

00:00:00 - The boys are back and they're talking about meat. Specifically, how the idea that neanderthals ate mostly meat is being challenge...

00:00:00 - After seeing a twitter thread about a recent publication, Ryan invited Jesse Alston ( @IntegratEcology ) on the show to talk abou...

00:00:00 - Ryan is joined by Utah State University journalism professor Matthew LaPlante ( @mdlaplante ), who teaches science graduate stude...

00:00:00 - Recorded live at the annual meeting of AAAS , Ryan is joined by Jason McDermott ( @BioDataGanache ) and Matteo Farinella ( @matte...

00:00:00 - This episode we're thrilled to be joined by comedian Shane Mauss ( @shanecomedy ), currently touring his Stand Up Science show ar...

00:00:00 - Thanks to the wonders of isotopic geochemistry, scientists have a found a link between the genocide of the native peoples of the...

00:00:00 - In our final AGU episode, Abe and Ryan host a roundtable discussion with some of the researchers who took the train from Scripps...

00:00:00 - Dr. Heather Ford ( @hl_ford ), who was featured alongside a certain Paleopal for National Fossil Day , meets up with Ryan at Atla...

00:00:00 - Jill Shipman and Brandon Gellis join us to talk about their AGU eLightning session titled Art and Science: Transdisciplinary Appr...

00:00:00 - In part two of our AGU shows we begin with dunes! Ryan chats with Tom Ashley ( @ThomasCAshley ) and Rob Mahon ( @RobertCMahon ) a...

00:00:00 - Photographer, filmmaker, and lapsed geomorphologist James Balog ( @james_balog ) joins Ryan and Abe to talk about his new film Th...

00:00:00 - To celebrate our 300th episode and make up for skipping Thanksgiving this year we're doing an all feedback segment! Patrick start...