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
Monday Oct 31, 2016
Monday Oct 31, 2016
500K years of human interspecies sex, why feeding your kid bleach to cure their autism is a bad idea, a bird that can fly for ten months straight, and how we’ve spent the last three decades unfairly demonizing a random flight attendant.
Monday Oct 24, 2016
Monday Oct 24, 2016
Professor Eva joins the guys to talk about how researchers recently solved the mystery of the 'Higgs Bison', how the media is lying to you about monkeys, and the magic of placebos. All of that plus how to hallucinate without drugs! (Seriously)!
Sunday Oct 16, 2016
Sunday Oct 16, 2016
In this episode, Seb joins the guys to discuss the effects of hormone birth control on depression, how the Chinese are ruining science, a new species of giant shark that was just discovered, and we talk to a surprisingly crass Eli Whitney.
Monday Oct 10, 2016
Monday Oct 10, 2016
In this very contentious episode, Seb joins the guys to discuss a new cure for HIV, why Science-Deniers believe what they do, the newly discovered largest organism in the world, and we get an exclusive interview with the Father of Genetics.
Monday Oct 03, 2016
Monday Oct 03, 2016
In this episode Eva joins the guys to discuss some rare good news about Devil face cancer, how a weird Chinese sex-fish is responsible for the extinction of the world's smallest porpoise, and how a baby can have three genetic parents.
Monday Sep 26, 2016
Monday Sep 26, 2016
In this episode, Professor Eva joins the guys to discuss an ancient human group that almost went extinct, how a journalistic legend is fighting against science, why all women have stripes, a skeleton of a 6-year-old boy that is only six inches tall, and how tattoos can be the future of medical treatment.
Monday Sep 19, 2016
Monday Sep 19, 2016
In this episode Seb joins the guys to discuss an amazing Mayan discovery, how to make electricity from fish scales, the discovery of a bunch of new giraffe species, and a new genus of animal that was discovered because of its weird dong. All of that and the guys are (not) visited by Sigmund Freud.
Monday Sep 12, 2016
Monday Sep 12, 2016
In this episode, Seb joins the guys to talk about a new forensic way to identify a person (even those dead for centuries), the EM drive fiasco, a first-of-its-kind amazing fossil, and we (don’t) get a visit from Thomas Edison.
Sunday Sep 04, 2016
Sunday Sep 04, 2016
In this episode, Naomi joins the guys to discuss a rocket engine that defies the laws of physics, how a virus made all male mammals buff, a galaxy made of dark matter, and how the first farmers on earth predate humans by at least 15 million years.
Monday Aug 29, 2016
Monday Aug 29, 2016
In this episode, Naomi joins the guys to discuss jumpstarting a coma patient's brain with an ultrasound, a fake science news story that fooled all the news networks, how a mini blackhole may hit the earth in the next 1000 years, turning dangerous CO2 into fuel, and we get a "visit" from Issac Newton.