Episode 117 with Sarah Morgan!

British comedy writer Sarah Morgan collaborated with Probably Science's own Matt Kirshen on BBC Radio 4's Bigipedia, and as she was stateside this week for MaxFunCon we were lucky enough to have her join the proceedings to chat about teaching British comedy, the lyrical prowess of Boynie Toypin, head trauma that created a math savant, children's natural skepticism of circular arguments, Jesse's nightmarish stuffed animals, turning light into matter, why we still don't understand static electricity, Matt chipping his teeth in a children's science museum, the protein that unites sperm and egg, and our first on-air earthquake.

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Episode 116 with Myq Kaplan!

Comedian, host of the podcast Hang Out With Me and literal master of linguistics Myq Kaplan joins Matt, Jesse and Andy this week to chat about birthday shenanigans, John Lennon's true assassin Stephen King, Myq's new album Small, Dork, and Handsome, competing against a computer in a joke-off, a smartphone app that detects bipolar mood swings by the sound of your voice, why octopuses' tentacles don't stick to themselves, how holding a hot beverage makes you cooperative and making sperm precursors from the skin cells of infertile men.

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Episode 115 with Paul Provenza and Amber Case, Live from Bridgetown Comedy Festival!

Matt and Andy venture to Portland this week for a live Probably Science from the seventh annual Bridgetown Comedy Festival featuring comedian/director/actor Paul Provenza and cyborg anthropologist Amber Case, who join together to discuss the early days of Comedy Central, confusing The Aristocrats with The Aristocats, Alan Dershowitz consulting on Kids Court, why we're all cyborgs now, computer-induced junk sleep, Andy's discovery about the house he owned in Portland, digital hoarding and royal portraits as proto-Internet dating profile pics.

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Episode 114 with Matt and Jesse!

With Andy off to Portland, and the scheduled guest being drunk, Matt and Jesse take matters into their own hands!  This week, the two of them fumble their way through the topics of: their local Renaissance fair!  Hitler's Parkinson's!  Peeing outdoors!  How to build a pyramid!  Lab rat sexism!  Cheating at Rock, Paper, Scissors!  Traumatic sleepovers!  New Elements!  Meeting Buzz Aldrin!  Also, Stephen Hawking is scared of the robot takeover!  

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Episode 113 with Auggie Smith!

The always funny Auggie Smith returns to the podcast this week on what can safely be described as an unfortunate day in the neighborhood. That didn't stop some actual science from being discussed, including the reinvention of the axe, a study that reveals the best way for men to dance, a hacky plant that copies other plants, making graphene in a blender, babies who cry to keep from having siblings, glow-in-the-dark roads in the Netherlands and the electric shock quick reflex game that hurts more than you'd expect.

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Episode 112 with Bryan Bishop!

Radio personality, author, trivia whiz and cancer survivor Bryan Bishop joins Matt, Andy and Jesse this week to talk about his upcoming book Shrinkage: Manhood, Marriage, and the Tumor That Tried to Kill Me, doctors with less-than-perfect bedside manner, tips on dealing with your own tumor, alternative medicine and the placebo effect, the tumor-shrinking magic of Avastin, the relative merits of MRIs and CT scans, the lunacy of David Arquette, Ringo Starr songs that may have been written by George Harrison, taking home $100,000 on Who Wants To Be a Millionaire and the evolutionary reason why beards are over.

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Episode 111 with Cara Santa Maria!

Popular science communicator, blogger, fellow podcaster, former real scientist and current excellent person Cara Santa Maria joins Andy, Jesse and Matt at Bluebell Ranch to talk bath salt accuracy, loud chewing, Andy's association with the Hillary Clinton shoe-thrower, brain percentages, penis bees, vagina-sewing, mouse muscle growth, cockroach nanobots and pain faces.

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Episode 110 with Beth Donahue!

Recent Nashville-to-Los Angeles transplant Beth Donahue makes her first Probably Science appearance this week, giving her take on LA and chatting with the gang about the debunked stem cell acid bath story, Matt's airplane black box ideas, the fat-burning cream doctors don't want you to know about, liquid water on one of Saturn's moons, women who stay up late and take big risks, Jesse's butt problems, Beth's sleep apnea pacemaker, and what to do if you find $600 on the street.

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Episode 109 with Tara Flynn!

The whole gang is back together this week, welcoming Irish comedian, actress and voice artist Tara Flynn to the proceedings to talk about Fleet Week, Jesse spraying himself with urine before a callback, saving the government $400 million by changing fonts, carving off a sliver of Irish Spring soap, a MacGyver microscope that only costs fifty cents, the possibly bullshit phenomenon of autonomous sensory meridian response, a 3D-printed skull, Tara's lack of a sense of smell, the influence of CK1 (not the perfume) on our circadian rhythms, graphene contact lenses that let you see in the dark, the 5 second rule, and Andy's almost-revolutionary inventions.

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Episode 108 with Drs. Larry Price, Jamie Rollins and Janna Levin!

To help us make sense of the biggest cosmology story of recent years, we invited three of our favorite physicists back to the show. Matt and Jesse are joined by an in-studio Dr. Larry Price, and, thanks to technical wizardry, NYC-dwelling Prof. Janna Levin and a Washington State-based Dr. Jamie Rollins, as they talk us through The Big Bang, what Inflation means, what this BICEP2 experiment did, whether it's important, what the Asian guy with the champagne meant when he said “It's five sigma at point two” to the Russian man and woman in that viral video, what was going on with that colder-than-absolute-zero story we didn't understand last week, whether academic journals are glory hunters, how multiverses fit in with this Inflation thing, and what we should take away from the whole story. And Andy missed all this to make sure a TV show about skaters getting hit in the testicles got made.

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Episode 107 with Stefan Pop and Rylee Newton!

We're going Dutch on this week's episode, as Netherlands-based comedian Stefan Pop stops by Bluebell Ranch with TV camera crew in tow, joining writer/comedian Rylee Newton to talk about Dutch insults, the health benefits of orange light, medieval multiverse theories, lightning as a predictor of earthquakes, temperatures below absolute zero and how neanderthals might have yelled.

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Episode 106 with Jimmy Shubert and Matt Davis!

You've seen comedian and actor Jimmy Shubert in The Italian Job, Reno: 911!, Mr. & Mrs. Smith and King of Queens, among many other credits, and he joins Just For Laughs Montreal and SF Sketchfest veteran Matt Davis to talk with the gang about baby tumors that have teeth, Brooks Wheelan's 12 Years a Slave sketch on SNL, dark matter that may have killed off the dinosaurs, a drug that cures heroin overdoses, Nick Doody opening for Bill Hicks, Italian robots that can tell when you're lying and the upcoming Krullapalooza charity benefit show with Zach Galifianakis, Tig Notaro and Patton Oswalt.

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Episode 105 with James Bachman and Danny Lobell!

James Bachman of the hilarious and influential sketch comedy show That Mitchell and Webb Look and Danny Lobell of the excellent Modern Day Philosophers podcast join Matt, Andy and Jesse to talk about a recently unearthed 30,000-year-old megavirus, the risks of being an older dad, almost failing out of Cambridge, a 3D-printed electronic heart-glove, the brilliant "Numberwang" sketch that James wrote, and Matt and Andy's appearance at the Hollywood Improv this Friday.

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Episode 104 with Andrew Solmssen!

It's a tech-heavy week for Probably Science, as comedian and IT-Pro-To-The-Stars Andrew Solmssen joins the proceedings to talk about the severity of Apple's SSL security flaw, an incredible space rock crash on the moon, a crystal that's 4.4 billion years old, Andrew's current favorite gadget, the site that tracks ISS crossings, the site that tells you how many people are in space, and The Radioactive Boy Scout.

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Episode 103 with Wendy Wason!

The hilarious Wendy Wason is visiting from Scotland and was kind enough to stop by Bluebell Ranch for her second appearance on the podcast, chatting with the gang about the beauty of mathematical equations, a correction to our optimistic stem cell story, a proof that's bigger than all of Wikipedia, Andy's swim meet and Wendy's upcoming role on Sherlock.

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Episode 102 with Professor Matthew Walker, Kurt Braunohler and Daniel Van Kirk!

The ProbSci gang travel to San Francisco this week for a live performance at Punchline Comedy Club as part of SF Sketchfest. Professor Matthew Walker, a sleep specialist in the psychology department of UC Berkeley, joins comedian Kurt Braunohler and Transformers: Age of Extinction star Mark Wahlberg for a fascinating discussion of something we all spend a third of our lives doing and most of us still know very little about.

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Episode 101 with Graham Elwood!

Comedian and host of the Comedy Film Nerds podcast Graham Elwood ventures to Bluebell Ranch this week to talk with Matt, Jesse and Andy about his upcoming Ear Buds podcast documentary, the LA PodFest Kickstarter video that Jesse edited, Squarespace's Super Bowl ad, Bill Nye debating a creationist, suing NASA for not looking hard enough for aliens, why sloths poop on the ground, and the surprising sum of all positive integers.

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Episode 100 with Karen Gillan, Bonus Brooks Wheelan and Greatest Hits!

The wonderful Karen Gillan, star of Doctor Who and the upcoming films Oculus and Guardians of the Galaxy, returns to Bluebell Ranch to help Matt, Jesse and Andy celebrate Probably Science's 100th episode with a discussion of Jonas Salk, Ernest Rutherford, gun synchronizers, making your own stem cells, charting the development of a British child, trampoline parks, baboon trials of birth control for men, the upcoming live Probably Science show at SF Sketchfest, a message from former co-host and current SNL cast member Brooks Wheelan, and a compilation of some of the best moments from the show's first 100 episodes featuring Chris Hardwick, Kyle Kinane, Wil Anderson, James Adomian, Mike Schmidt, Wendy Wason, Glenn Wool, Lady Carol, Auggie Smith, Daniel Sloss, and Brendon Burns!

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Episode 99 with Dwayne Perkins!

The hilarious Dwayne Perkins, author of Hot Chocolate For The Mind, joins Matt, Jesse and Andy on the first Squarespace-sponsored episode of Probably Science to talk about the comedic dilemma of Piscopo-ing, dogs aligning themselves with Earth's magnetic field to poop, the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island, a computer 1,500 years ahead of its time, Dwayne's picture frame doppelgänger, the fruit that brought down Gigantopithecus, recordings of hallucinated music, and Andy's almond butter-baited rat trap.

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Episode 98 with Dr. Peter McGraw and Caleb Bacon!

Professional comedy analyzer Dr. Peter McGraw returns to the show this week and is joined by professional comedy writer Caleb Bacon to talk with Jesse, Matt and Andy about the upcoming book The Humor Code, Japan's comedic oligarchy, Tanzania's laughter outbreak, the incredible Dennis Miller Generator that a dedicated listener created and Michael McDonald's backing vocals on "Peg."

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