262 - Howling at the Soon

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🗓️ 25 April 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

00:00:00 - Kelly Weinersmith is here and she's got a book coming out co-written with some dude named Zach Weinersmith, whoever that is. The book is called Soonish, it's coming out soon, but you can pre-order it now. Pre-ordering is super important for their rankings on the sales charts, plus you get super cool rewards so get on it!

00:21:48 - One thing we hope doesn't change anytime soon is our enjoyment of delicious beverages. Ben has some "Boss Coffee" which Kelly and Ryan thought was a joke, but it's apparently not. Next up, Ryan gets bitter thanks to his wife. Seriously, she bought him some Woodford Reserve Spiced Cherry Bitters added to some fine St. Lucian rum. Kelly unwittingly makes a London Fog with some Harney & Sons Earl Grey Supreme tea.

00:33:37 - Wolves are known for many things: pack mentality, becoming dogs, and howling. Tourists really like the howling part, including faking it to get the wolves to howl back. But how does that make the wolves feel? For the first time, a team in Canada has checked to make sure that induced human howling isn't messing with the way wolves use the space. The good news? It's not, the wolves clearly don't care, which is good, but also good that someone thought to double-check.

00:45:18 - PaleoPOWs are a lot like wolves: they do move in herds. Now that we're on Patreon, if you support us at the Avogadro's Army level or higher, we will make up a fake thesis title for you. Our first recipient of this reward goes to Becky Wertz and her thesis is titled: Stochastic methods for testing differences in adhesion between lingually wetted stamps versus sticker stamps. Thanks, Becky! Next up, Bob M. has some words about Lagrange as discussed in some of our AGU coverage. And finally, Kelly reads a glowing 5-star iTunes review from Susie Haupt, aka Ryan's mom.

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Music for this week's show:
The Future Soon - Jonathan Coulton
London Calling - The Clash
Dela (I Know Why The Dog Howls At The Moon) - Johnny Clegg & Savuka

Transcript

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0:00.0	But anyway.
0:02.2	Fascinating.
0:04.0	Okay.
0:04.9	Drinks, drinks, drinks.
0:05.7	Drink, drinks.
0:06.8	From sciencesortive.com, you're listening to Science Sort of you.
0:26.7	We're listening to Episode 262.
0:28.5	Our theme this week is Howlin at the Soon.
0:31.7	I'm your host, Ryan Halpton, joining me to talk about things that are science, things that are sort of science, and things that wish they were science.
0:36.8	It's the very soon return of Kelly.
0:39.4	Hello, good to be back.
0:41.8	And the not as soon return of Ben.
0:44.1	Hello, everybody. How are you today?
0:46.3	But we're still happy you returned at all, Ben.
0:48.7	Ben.
0:51.6	Kelly, you got news. Again, you had news last time. You have news this time. I have news that has been two years in the works, and I can't tell you how much it's been killing me to not be able to talk about it publicly for two years. But so about two years ago, a wonderful gentleman named Seth Fishman contacted Zach to ask if Zach wanted to write any books
1:12.6	and to see if that was the case, if Seth could be Zach's agent.
1:16.7	And Zach thought about a couple ideas and then was like, you know, it'd be really fun if
1:20.6	Kelly and I wrote a book about emerging technologies.
1:24.2	And we pitched it to Seth and he liked the idea who pitched it to a bunch of publishers,
1:28.4	and Penguin picked it up, Penguin Press, and then we spent, yes, I know, I can't believe it,
1:34.3	I'm so excited, uh, and we spent a year and a half where like every spare second we had,
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