The Super Science Happy Hour with Matt & Matt
Summary: The Super Science Happy Hour with Matt & Matt stars Matt Krause and Matt Johnson. Both Matts hold PhDs in Neuroscience from Yale University, have an active interest in many areas of science, and are devastatingly witty and handsome in person. The podcast is a mostly spontaneous conversion between Matt & Matt about various news items and issues in the science world. We know a lot about some of the topics we discuss and not very much about others, but we usually take some interesting digressions along the way. We’re relatively low-tech for now, but hopefully if anyone listens, we’ll get more polished over time. If you’d like to support the show, feel free to send us buckets of money and/or audio equipment. You can contact us at supersciencehappyhour@gmail.com
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Podcasts:
Topics discussed: Cleopatra and woolly mammoths; a grand u(ri)nified theory; bloody salty sharks and potty-mouthed turtles; the magnetic declination of canine defecation; and a wetness down under leads us to contemplate whether Les Cousins Dangereux is obscene. Clearly, our classiest episode yet!
Topics discussed: Crazy cat ladies (or gentlemen); freaky parasites; spiders and elephants on drugs; the steampunk animal kingdom; pub(l)ic demonstrations of erectile dysfunction remedies and other self-experimentation goodness; and how to cut out the middleman by brewing beer right in your own... stomach. With special guest star ANDY BELLEMER!!!
Topics discussed: Chlorophyll, hemoglobin, and refried beans; warp drives and (at)tractor beams; comet tails and solar sails; dueling fails and moose in ales; historical pets; kissing cousins; kissing parrots; radioactive brains; red-hot nickel balls and red-hot giraffe love. Also, check us out now on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and GeoCities! (OK, maybe not GeoCities.)
Topics discussed: Ancient nuclear reactors, giant moons, Richard Feynman scooping the entire field of cognitive psychology while doing his laundry, burning oneself and touching snakes in the name of science, kikis, boubas, and more! Listen to (and/or see/smell/taste/feel) us talk about synesthesia! And somehow we manage to get through the entire episode without making a "Uranus" joke... until the title.
Topics discussed: Rhymes (nursery, Snoop Dogg's), lads' mags, a lather rong discussion of Japanese consonant confusion, crazy old scientists, mind-altering backpacks, mirror neurons, feeling empathy, feeling air, testing tastes and tasting testes. Plus, rainbows and lots and lots of psychopaths! With special guest star LAURIE SKELLY!!!
Topics discussed: Radioactive cookies & cursed frogurt; self-referential aptitude tests; virtual spermatozoa; mean triangles; telepathic tompeepery; and computers that play write pop songs, critique screenplays, and play old-school Super Mario Bros. Plus, blood!
Topics discussed: Giant insects; Twinkies; the general fickleness of taste perception; food-ish things that may or may not be either good or bad for you; Japanese centenarians; the voices of physics; why naked mole rats don't get cancer; clouds of bacteria; whiskey stones; oblique references to songs of the 1980s.
Topics discussed: Lots about colo(u)r perception; types of primates; Eskimo words for snow; the (in)efficiency of different languages; and seduction techniques of bonobos, cannibalistic fish, pandas, raging bulls, moose, and humans.
Topics discussed: Crappy first episodes, journey through the center of the earth, antimatter and gravity, statues, videos made with atoms, and how we don't know nearly as much about microscopes (and most other things) as we'd like to.
