244 - A Grunt's Life
Science... sort of
Brachiolope
4.7 • 674 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2016
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
00:00:00 - This week Ryan is joined by his wife, Juliana Olsson, so they can talk with returning guest and author Mary Roach! We do drinks in the preamble so for all you completists out there: Juli had a Three Philosophers and Ryan had a Birthday Suit. Mary, given her druthers, likes a dry gin martini. But the actual point of our conversation is to talk about her new book is Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War and that's what we talk about (mostly). She's on tour promoting the book right now, so go see her if you can and tell her you heard about the tour from us!
00:52:34 - PaloePOWs are a lot like books; they contain a lot of words. Ryan begins with a donation from Liam B., a Canadian donating with US money. How thoughtful! Thanks, Liam. Next up, Todd B. wanted us to watch a video about naked mole rats, the official animal of the podcast. They're pretty cute in an ugly sort of way, and the science being done is pretty cool too. Finally, Ryan reminds y'all that we're running an iTunes review contest. Write a review for us on iTunes between now and the Summer Solstice and be entered in a drawing to win prizes! We've gotten some good ones so far, and feature one from treaest.
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Music for this week's show:
A Soldiering Life - The Decemberists
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Can we start over? |
| 0:01.6 | All right, fine. |
| 0:02.7 | I'm sorry. |
| 0:04.5 | Oh. |
| 0:06.0 | From science sort of.com, you're listening to Science Sort of. |
| 0:10.1 | Hello and welcome to Science Sorta. This is episode 244. Our theme this week is A Grunt's Life. |
| 0:28.4 | I'm your host, Ryan, and joining me to talk about things that are science, things that are sort of science and things that wish they were. Science is my wife, Juliana Olson. |
| 0:36.3 | Hello, Sailor. Hey, how's it going? |
| 0:38.7 | It's gone fine. How are you? |
| 0:40.3 | I'm doing well. So why did you join us this week, Julie? |
| 0:44.2 | Because you asked me to. And also because I really wanted to because we were interviewing |
| 0:49.0 | the wonderful, wonderful Mary Roach. |
| 0:51.9 | That's true. Why were we interviewing Mary Roach? |
| 0:54.8 | Well, she has a new book out, Ryan. |
| 0:56.4 | Did you even read it? |
| 0:57.6 | I did read it before doing the interview because that's how interviews work. |
| 1:01.7 | Well, good job. |
| 1:03.1 | What's the book about? |
| 1:04.1 | Should we let her tell it or do you want to tell the people? |
| 1:06.8 | I guess it is the first question we ask her. |
| 1:08.9 | Yeah, it is kind of the first question. So we can just, you know, let people fast forward and get to the good part. |
| 1:15.3 | Okay. |
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