Hosted by an Archaeologist/Comedian, a Stand-Up Comedian, and a different Guest Scientist every week, Science Faction is a blue comedic review of the week's published scientific articles.
Episodes
Dec 20, 2018
Dec 20, 2018
21 min
The guys welcome back Connor to discuss how a fake robot fooled an entire tech convention, why goosebumps may be a (really) good thing, and why research shows that parachutes have no effect on the death rates of people jumping out of airplanes.
Dec 16, 2018
Dec 16, 2018
52 min
The guys welcome back Connor to discuss the origins of marine mammals, how an exploding star 150 light years away may have killed the most badass shark that ever lived, and why Organic crops are much worse for the environment than non-organics.
Dec 13, 2018
Dec 13, 2018
31 min
The guys welcome back Dr. Troy for a game of science trivia with very unsurprising results.
Dec 9, 2018
Dec 9, 2018
46 min
The guys welcome back Dr. Troy to discuss how mammals came to be, why getting sick as a child might literally make you crazy, and how we just discovered something that overturns a main tenant of biology.
Dec 6, 2018
Dec 6, 2018
27 min
The guys welcome back Dr. Troy for a game of 'I Call BS', where we discuss how much meth and heroine a pregnant woman should do, why depressed people with epilepsy may be the luckiest depressed people around, how to make an airplane engine with no moving parts, and how many times Homo sapiens banged Neanderthals.
Dec 3, 2018
Dec 3, 2018
46 min
The guys welcome back Dr. Troy to discuss the origins of multicellular life, why everyone was making such a big deal out of the world's first CRISPR babies, and how we are re-writing the story of human evolution.
Nov 29, 2018
Nov 29, 2018
26 min
The guys welcome back Dr. Eva to play I Call BS. We uncover one of the greatest (and completely underreported) discoveries that will change archaeology forever, why one animal in the world has cube-shaped poop, whether or not sunscreen is safe to use every day, and why the word "sugar" is much more badass than you thought.
Nov 25, 2018
Nov 25, 2018
47 min
The guys welcome back Dr. Eva to discuss the biological origins of life, how a genocide was avoided because of a few well-placed arrows, and how a crater in Greenland may explain a global climate change 12,000 years ago.
Nov 22, 2018
Nov 22, 2018
34 min
The guys welcome back Bill to discuss the genocide of mountain gorillas, how to stop antibiotic resistant bacteria from killing us all, and why you should or shouldn't suck on your baby's pacifier to clean it off.
Nov 18, 2018
Nov 18, 2018
45 min
The guys welcome back Bill to discuss the origin of the planets, why the discovery of monopole magnets may change our world, and how we only just discovered how matter could possibly exist.