128- Can Dolphins Detect Pregnancy?
Following another request, today we examine whether it is possible for dolphins- using their ultrasonic communication- to detect human pregnancy. The answer might be more ambiguous than you think...So...
2 Aug 4min
Announcement- I've written a book!
Vince here- I've written a historical fiction book set in Constantinople in 1081! Well, kind of. The first draft of the manuscript is complete at about 59,000 words across 34 chapters. I am planning t...
31 Jul 5min
127- Life Expectancy of Hobbits
A bit of a silly topic today. What is the average life expectancy of hobbits in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium? Along the way, we will learn something about current and historic human life expectancy....
19 Jul 3min
126- Moles
As requested by listener GT, we are going to talk all about moles today! Join us for the evolutionary history of the Talpidae family, English prophecies about moles, how much a mole head is worth in 2...
5 Jul 10min
125- Pollinator Decline Debate Part II: A Dissenting Voice
Last week we introduced some discussion on bee/pollinator declines. This week, we will discuss a perspective by Jaboury Ghazoul- a professor at ETH Zurich- who argued in a 2005 paper that labelling a ...
10 Mai 3min
124- Pollinator Decline Debate Part I: Non-Bee Pollinators
Once again adapting a blog post into an episode, we are going to be examining a paper from 2016 which gives a potential new perspective on bee/pollinator declines. It argues that the contribution of n...
26 Apr 2min
123- Calculating Inbreeding Coefficient
There is a number we use in genetics to represent how inbred a particular individual- e.g.: Charles II of Spain, Ptolemy XIII or Danaerys Targaryen- is. On today's episode, thanks to guidance from a b...
12 Apr 8min
122- How to Build a Phylogenetic Tree
The term phylogenetic tree often gets bandied about, but how exactly do you construct one? Using three exemplar snake species and the differences in amino acid sequences in a common protein, let's bui...
29 Mar 4min
