Episodes

Episode 365 with Louis Katz!

Episode 364 with Bil Dwyer!

Episode 363 with Matthew D. LaPlante!

Matthew D. LaPlante (@mdlaplante), author of the new book Superlative: The Biology of Extremes, joins Matt and Andy to talk about all creatures great and small (and fast and slow and strong and old and deadly...) and look at the many surprising things to be learned from nature's outliers.

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Episode 362 with Chris Mancini!

Episode 361 with Noah Gardenswartz!

Comedian Noah Gardenswartz (@noahgcomedy) of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel joins Andy and Matt to discuss left-handed women’s smell, cannibal ants, cg mustaches, an ebola vaccine, anti-vax Facebook ads, mouse deer and Mars air.

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Episode 360 with Chris Duffy!

Episode 359 with Dr. Stuart Russell!

Artificial intelligence researcher and UC Berkeley Professor of Computer Science Dr. Stuart Russell joins Andy to talk about his new book Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control, which explores the concept of intelligence in humans and machines, what the benefits and drawbacks of creating superhuman intelligence are, and what AI researchers can do now to help usher in a future that's more utopian than dystopian.

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Episode 358 with Daniel Dominguez!

Comedian-turned-writer Daniel Dominguez joins Matt and Andy to talk about his new animated Netflix series Seis Manos, Nobel Prize announcements in physics, medicine and chemistry, Ursula K. Le Guin, people with Goodenough names and implanting false memories in birds.

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Episode 357 with Troy Walker!

Comedian Troy Walker (@troywalkeresq) joins Matt and Andy to discuss erector sets, owl pellets, scientists growing tooth enamel, aspen sunscreen, a Milky Way explosion, Dr. Magma, too many wallabies, university ripoffs and antibiotic resistance.

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Episode 356 with Matt Monroe!

Episode 355 with Nick Turner!

Comedian Nick Turner (@NicksTurners) returns to the show seven years after his last appearance to talk about his podcasts Get Rich Nick and Recently Added, walking dogs, very slow zombies, a herpes vaccine, fun math with 3s, a new blackest black, Instant Hotel, cooking with ostrich eggs, Instant Hotel, Fastest Car and Hyperdrive, spiders flying with electricity and a play with a very controversial name.

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Episode 354 with Dr. Ria Lina!

PhD-having comedian Ria Lina (@rialina_) joins Matt and Andy to talk about bioinformatics, her research in viruses, specifically the herpes family of viruses, predicting this year's flu, the definition of life, the other kind of beach bodies, pathology, terrorism hypotheticals, herd immunity, viral ontology and Ria's ukulele song for Alabama.

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Episode 352 with "How To" author and xkcd creator Randall Munroe!

Cartoonist/author/engineer Randall Munroe of the Hugo Award-winning webcomic xkcd joins Matt and Andy to talk about his new book How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, in which he gives novel, ridiculous and technically correct tips on doing everything from digging a hole to winning an election. You can catch Randall in person on his book tour running through September 19th.

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Episode 351 with Chris Martin and Hanna Stanbridge!

Comedians Chris Martin (@ChrisMcomedy) and Hanna Stanbridge (@HannaStanbridge) join Andy and Matt to talk about our Wired video, soap on a rope, some scientist listeners’ corrections, burp-free cows and seaweed, July being the hottest month ever, how tongue rolling isn’t fully genetic, vaccine-delivering Congo drones, asparagus pee, boney boners, Will Smith’s penis, water-powered space craft and peeing in space.

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Episode 350 with Pollyanna McIntosh!

Actor/director Pollyanna McIntosh (@PollyAMcIntosh) of The Walking Dead, Lodge 49 and her directorial debut Darlin' joins Matt and Andy to discuss Dennis dentists, human-sized penguins, gay penguins with an egg, an ebola cure, good environmental news, bad environmental news and tails for old people.

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Episode 348 with Jordan Doll!

Comedian Jordan Doll (@razorlou) joins Andy and Matt to discuss old UK comedy, field archaeology, being a shovel bum, King Arthur’s various swords, massive parrots, the periodic table of Jeopardy!, tardigrades on the moon, disinfecting Mars, water-filtering wood, toxic Paris, Maya Angelou ads, problematic pics and The Mechanical Turk.

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Episode 347 with KT Tatara!