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• Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

  When were glasses invented? What happened back then if your horse stepped on them? How is the digital age changing adults’ and kids’ vision? The first half of this special bonus episode about Optical Technology features the charmingly...

  1 aug 2025 3067 sec.

• Literary Olfactology (THE POLITICS OF SMELL) with Ally Louks

  Smell and culture. Scent descriptions in novels. Fragrances and class. Stink and stigmas. We cover it all. Scholar, author, and Literary Olfactologist Dr. Ally Louks burst into the zeitgeist in 2024 with her PhD thesis “Olfactory...

  30 jul 2025 4777 sec.

• Bonus Episode: The OCD Experience with Neurobiologist Uma Chatterjee

  This one’s all about lived experience: What's it like to have OCD? What’s the therapy all about? How do you support people with it? And how to accept the darkest thoughts that might haunt you. As a bonus to last week’s OCD Neurobiology...

  29 jul 2025 2918 sec.

• Obsessive-Compulsive Neurobiology (OCD) with Wayne Goodman

  Ruminations and reassurances. Checking and counting. Suffering and stigmas. It’s OCD, babes! OCD is now considered one of the most common psychiatric conditions, afflicting 2% to 3% of the general population, and this episode is among...

  23 jul 2025 4789 sec.

• Fromology (CHEESE) Part 2 with Kyra James

  We’re back with molten hot cheese trivia in Part 2 with Fromologist Kyra James of OwnYourFunk.com. Part 1 covered the foundations and this week we address your listener questions about cows on boats, plant-based cheese options, how to...

  16 jul 2025 4329 sec.

• Fromology (CHEESE) Part 1 with Kyra James

  Soft. Hard. Fresh. Aged. Stinky. Illegal. Let’s talk cheese with Certified Cheese Professional (CCP) and Fromologist, Kyra James. We chat about proprietary bacterial slurries, basement caves, cheese knife etiquette, rind eating,...

  9 jul 2025 4240 sec.

• Lampyridology (FIREFLIES) aka Sparklebuttology Updated Encore with Sara Lewis

  Let’s light up your life and butt. World-renowned firefly expert Dr. Sara Lewis of Tufts University gives us some updates to her 2021 episode, sharing her love of a bug that many think is merely mythological. Learn how these tiny...

  2 jul 2025 4069 sec.

• Crotalology (RATTLESNAKES) with Emily Taylor

  Fangs. Rattles. Misconceptions. Crawl out from under your rock for the angelic rattle of one of the world’s most maligned, misunderstood, gorgeous, mysterious, efficient creatures. Herpetology professor, rattlesnake scientist and thus,...

  25 jun 2025 4871 sec.

• Aquaculture Ecology (SUSTAINABLE OCEAN FOODS) with Ben Halpern

  Farmed versus wild. Basement shrimp hustles. Mangrove drama. Anthropology. Animal welfare and plant-based diets. Climb aboard to meet UCSB’s super cool dude, researcher and Aquaculture Ecologist, Dr. Ben Halpern. You’ll hear about...

  18 jun 2025 5105 sec.

• Bonus Episode: THE U.S. CONSTITUTION. Let's read it together.

  Have you ever read every word of The U.S. Constitution? You don't have to, because I read it with my mouth into your brain in this weird but vital episode on civil liberties. And of course, there are little sidenotes to make sure we...

  14 jun 2025 5102 sec.

• Macrophycology (SEAWEED) with Patrick Martone, Charles Yarish, Danielle McHaskell, Angela Jones, and Becky Swerida

  Moonlit seaweeds. Dreamy underwater forests. Mounds of beach debris. Not plants. Let’s talk about where seaweed grows and whether or not it will save us all. Macrophycology means “big-ass algae” so let’s join five dazzling seaweed...

  11 jun 2025 5420 sec.

• Cryptology (SECRET CODES) with Simon Singh

  Secret ciphers. Hidden treasure. Enigma breakers. Mysterious manuscripts. And … hog Latin. Cryptology expert and author of “The Code Book,” Simon Singh finally lets me ask him about the small mistakes that lost huge battles, the prison...

  4 jun 2025 4517 sec.