Detroitology (DETROIT) with Aaron Foley
Why an episode on Detroit?! It’s got a great story. Standalone, this episode is a fascinating look at a metropolis that swelled and thrived during the auto boom, then declined, and is navigating a roc...
8 Mars 20231h
Field Trip: An Airport Full of Neuroscientists
I’m at the airport and there are hundreds of brain scientists everywhere. So I swallowed my dignity/anxiety and approached strangers about the neuroscience they do. The result is a bushel of info on c...
2 Mars 202357min
Environmental Toxicology (POISONS + TRAIN DERAILMENT) with Kimberly K. Garrett
Chemical spills, historical disasters, water quality, airborne toxic events, clear gasses, White Noise, dead fish, dark clouds, chemistry tests, trench coats, PFAS, phthalates, and the Ohio train dera...
22 Feb 20231h 19min
Melaninology (SKIN/HAIR PIGMENT) with Tina Lasisi
Skin color! Hair texture! Biological anthropology! The incredibly informed and infectiously funny Dr. Tina Lasisi joins to chat sunscreen, ashiness, redheads, light skin, dark skin, in-between skin, b...
16 Feb 20231h 31min
Scotohylology (DARK MATTER) with Flip Tanedo
It’s invisible. It’s mysterious. It’s all around us – and no one knows what it is. Let’s have a fun existential crisis by pondering Dark Matter! The world’s most affable and endearing theoretical part...
8 Feb 20231h 16min
Laryngology Part 2 (VOICE BOXES) with Ronda Alexander
Part 2 is here! Pull up a seat for singing techniques, baby talk, baritones, whistle notes, stroke recovery, vibrato, Julie Andrews, crying jags, throat singing, accents and much more with your new fa...
1 Feb 202354min
Laryngology Part 1 (VOICE BOXES) with Ronda Alexander
Voices! Singing! Anxiety busters! Breathing! The absolutely magnetic, charismatic Laryngologist and surgeon Dr. Ronda Alexander makes her long-awaited Ologies debut to chat about why we sound the way ...
25 Jan 20231h 1min
Aperiology (MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY) Encore with Joseph Saunders
Lights! Cameras! Arachnids! And lizards and bees and beetles. Macro photography is like magic: curved glass gives an entirely new take on the world, from dust on a cricket’s brow to a curious mantid s...
18 Jan 20231h 25min
