The SciSpeak crew gathers once again to find out how the weird structure of the octopus brain can lead to master escape artists. Also, dick arms. Popular with fans of Fox's Prison Break and tentacle porn enthusiasts.
The SciSpeak team dives in to the life of the humble octopus. Wrap your tentacles around some knowledge!
Scientifically Speaking is back and better than ever! Joining Shane and Dave are Colleen, Reid and Phillip to discuss the ever-perplexing Y2K bug. What actually happened? Was there ever really cause for concern? What are computers, really? How do numbers work? What's a number? What is time? Will we answer all of these questions? You'll have to listen to find out!
Continuing our massive deep dive into the world of spiders, Dave tells Zach and Shane more about spier sex. spider families, and other things that are like spiders but aren't quite spiders!
Dave gets really excited and tells Zach and Shane a lot of things about spiders. And then we run out of time! To be continued...
Shane is temporarily replaced by Alyssa, who teaches Zach and Dave about.. just like everything she could think of. Turns out tires and rubber bands are way cooler than you thought!
Zach and Dave are joined by special guest Sarah to talk about the weird, sort of living cell-like organism-like things that are viruses.
Zach, Dave, and Shane talk about climate change. Are we completely screwed as a species? Yes. Yes, we are.
Special guest Taylor is back to talk about horrible, terrifying, super cool parasites! Everything is scary and the worst!
Zach, Dave, and Shane talk about digestion! Tummy grumbles, pee pee, poo poo, they've got it all.
Zach, Shane, and Dave talk about Mars, Martians, red, and human extraplanetary colonization.
Shane, Zach, and Dave struggle audibly trying to describe light works, and in doing so, reveal how little they really understand about one of the most important members of the physical world.
Dave, Zach, and Shane discuss the mechanics, health effects, and different types of vaccines.
Dave, Zach, and Shane talk about the Devil's Lettuce, it's possible medicinal uses and how cannibis high really works (well, they try. Turns out it's real weird).
Join Shane, Dave, Zach, and special guest Taylor (and Scott Stapp of Creed! Sort of...) as we talk about sex!
Join Zach, Dave, and (at least for the last 20 minutes) Shane, the hosts of Scientifically Speaking, as we talk about Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)!
Does alternative medicine actually work? What can it treat? Zach, Dave, and Shane dive deep into the world of homeopathy, chiropractics, and crystals.
How do babies learn language? Can your newborn really do math? Answer these burning questions and more as Zach, Dave and Shane learn about babies!