Matt and Andy ventured back to the Caltech campus this week for a mind-bending talk with theoretical cosmologist and author Dr. Sean Carroll about dark matter, dark energy, Boltzmann brains, the arrow of time, multiple universes and consulting on the production of Thor.
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It’s a week of Portland-to-LA transplants, as comics Virginia Jones and Auggie Smith join Matt and Andy to talk about using sound waves to make things levitate, controlling stem cells with magnets, a blue planet that rains glass, and the stranger who wanders into Andy’s house during the recording to take a shower.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/episode-077-virginia-jones-and-auggie-smith
San Francisco-based comedian Colleen Watson and Portland-based festival producer/podcaster Charlene Conley herald Matt’s triumphant return from Convergence Con this week, digging into meaty topics including the vegan/goth Venn diagram overlap, Portland-based Sasquatch clubs, cutlery’s effect on flavor, and the possibility of unlimited teeth.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/episode-076-colleen-watson-and-charlene-conley
This week’s episode was recorded live at the 2013 Convergence Con in Minneapolis, with Matt welcoming The Physics of Superheroes author Dr. James Kakalios, Comedian Tommy Ryman and Dan Schlissel from Stand Up Records to discuss superconductors, solid state physics, things with “nano” in their titles, telescopic eyes, quantum computing, and how to transport science on a boat.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/episode-075-live-from-convergence-con
David Angelo earned an Emmy nomination for his writing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and he brings his considerable talents to this week’s episode, joining Matt, Andy and Jesse to talk about batteries made with wood, light-sensitive cabbage, nuclear-propelled space travel, eEconomics, and martial arts legend Benny “The Jet” Urquidez.
Theoretical physicist, author and Barnard College of Columbia University professor Janna Levin lends some much-needed science cred to the proceedings this week, helping school Matt and Andy on relativity, Hawking radiation, the sound of vibrating spacetime, the music of Warren Malone, and pretty much everything you ever wanted to know about black holes.
Well look who’s come crawling back — it’s Probably Science prodigal son Brooks Wheelan! Matt and Andy get caught up on the goings-on of Brooks’s podcasting Rumspringa while discussing the possible discovery of woolly mammoth blood, sneaky cockroaches, and the radiation problem that might keep us from going to Mars.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/episode-072-brooks-wheelan
If you don’t already love Rory Scovel from his memorable Conan appearances, you’ll be a fan when he appears on TBS’s Ground Floor this fall, and he joins Matt, Andy and Jesse this week to discuss measuring absolute zero, saving babies with 3D printers, people with bendy, chimp-like feet and super-creepy shoeless pictures of Mr. Belvedere star Brice Beckham.
Probably History is back! Comedian and sociologist Pat Reilly joins Jesse, Andy, Richard and (briefly) Matt to take a look at the infamous House of Borgia, the Renaissance family that brought us Pope Alexander VI, incest, murder and the Banquet of Chestnuts!
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/probably-history-episode-003-the-borgias
This week Matt and Andy travel to the campus of Caltech to welcome actual PhD candidates, actors and science communicatorsCrystal Dilworth and Alexandra Lockwood to the show to talk about shocking people’s brains to make them smarter, searching for exoplanets, knighting penguins and mourning Kepler.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/episode-070-crystal-dilworth-and-alexandra-lockwood
You’ve seen the hilarious John Roy on Conan, Ferguson, and IFC’s Maron in Space, and he joins Matt, Andy, and Jesse this week to talk about the new cocaine vaccine, Juggalo science, and why there are 480,000,000 needles orbiting Earth.
Australian comedian/writer/performer Celia Pacquola and American comedian/writer/performer TJ Chambers join Matt and Andy this week to dig into the listener mailbag and, for the most part, avoid discussing Gallagher while delving into 3D-printed guns, mainlining oxygen, body farms and the reasons for studying duck genitalia.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/episode-068-celia-pacquola-and-tj-chambers
Mr. Show’s Karen Kilgariff and Chelsea Lately’s April Richardson both performed at last week’s Bridgetown Comedy Festival, and they also happened to be in attendance for the debacle that was the Serafinowicz/Gallagher episode. They join Andy for a debrief and therapy session, while also discussing speedier space travel, harmful hookahs, Huey Lewis and, of course, cheesy potatoes.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/episode-067-karen-kilgariff-and-april-richardson
British comedy icon and Look Around You co-creator Peter Serafinowicz and stand-up legend Gallagher join Matt Kirshen and Andy Wood for a live taping of Probably Science at Portland’s Bridgetown Comedy Festival, where things get really uncomfortable as topics range from lower-fat chocolate to stressed-out red squirrels to Gallagher’s strong opinions on height and race in Mexican culture.
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Hosts of the hilarious sports/comedy podcast Sklarbro CountryRandy and Jason Sklar join Matt and Andy on this week’s episode to talk about the coping mechanisms of Michigan fans, the Lebron James of antimatter, spending $100 million to drag an asteroid, new strategies in the fight against bedbugs and whether we need to be concerned about reaching Peak Penis.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/episode-065-the-sklar-brothers
Comedians Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher host and produce the popular comedy show and podcast Put Your Hands Together, and they join Matt, Andy and Jesse this week to discuss spittoons, severing underwater Internet cables, fairy rings, waste water-induced seismic activity and bacteria that might cure obesity.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/episode-064-cameron-esposito-and-rhea-butcher
The hilarious Aparna Nancherla writes and performs on Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, and while she was visiting the west coast, she joined Matt, Andy and (briefly) Jesse to talk about magnet schools, Wilhelm Screams, Shepard Tones, frogs inside of frogs, weather-based lady songs and digging up rockets from the bottom of the ocean.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/episode-063-aparna-nancherla
Comedian and actor Matt Braunger joins Andy, Matt and Jesse this week to talk about comedians in therapy, birds evolving shorter wings to escape cars, dumb invention ideas, babies with three parents, Philip K. Dick’s pro wrestling alter-ego and, of course, the Bridgetown Comedy Festival.
The head of Nerdist Industries himself, comedian/podcaster/actor/musician/host Chris Hardwick makes his first Probably Science appearance on this week’s episode, joining Matt, Andy, and ProbSci prodigal son Brooks Wheelan to discuss using iPhones to detect intestinal worms, parodying Trace Adkins in the name of science, making transplant livers chillax just a little longer, Neanderthals and their too-big eyes, and a completely horrifying bat-eating spider.
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It’s a packed house on this week’s Probably Science, with guests Glenn Wool and Lady Carol joining Auggie Smith, Matt and Andy to discuss Mike Tyson’s one-man show, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and his 75 offspring, whale mouth penises, HIV-curing bee venom and incompetent people who are unaware of their own incompetence.
http://probablyscience.libsyn.com/episode-060-glenn-wool-and-lady-carol
