290 - Because Science Live

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4.8 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

00:00:00 - Sometimes life finds a way, to get in the way, so instead of the show we were supposed to record, here’s another from the archives. This time, we’re rolling back the clock to October 2014, mere moments after the live show you heard in episode 214. After our show, Kyle Hill (@Sci_Phile) took the stage to do a Because Science live panel discussion lead by him featuring Patrick House (@drmisterpatrick), Zach Weiner (@ZachWeiner), and our own Ryan Haupt. Topics in part one include:

Jurassic World’s lack of feathered dinosaurs
Asimov’s Laws of Robotics
Star Trek communicators
Cordyceps parasites in the video game The Last of Us
Toxoplasma
Ulcers and personality
Disease attenuation
‘Mutated’ neutrinos from the film 2012
and just what is going on with the Hulk

00:33:15 - Ryan breaks in for a moment to insert a drinks segment and he’s having some sherry, which sounds like something fancy from a Poe story, but he mostly just uses it for cooking.

00:34:10 - Part 2 of the panel begins with a discussion of more realistic science fiction, including the books Blindsight, Solaris, and the Space Odyssey series, and movies like Upstream Color, Deranged, Interstellar, and even Iron Man. Plus how organizations like the Science and Entertainment Exchange (see episode 40) can help steer Hollywood in the right scientific direction. We end with a discussion of the media’s role in make people afraid of things like diseases, and also what’s really scary from a scientific perspective.

Thanks again to Kyle for putting together the panel, make sure to check out his Youtube series Because Science from the Nerdist.com!

01:02:34 - PaleoPOWs are a lot like panels, it’s good to have some diversity. Only one this week and it comes from Thomas K., who has kindly contributed some money via Paypal and has some feedback regarding the evolution of the show, and our recent attempts to do other types of content like fossil hunting!

More cool rewards await you if you decide to support us on our Patreon!

Music for this episode:

Don’t Look Back In Anger - Oasis
Sherry - Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons
First Step - Hans Zimmer

Transcript

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0:00.0	All right. Thanks, Joe. And next time, check your text messages because if I'm texting you about getting on the mic, maybe. No, I'm not going to tease about that.
0:07.3	From science sort of.com, you're listening to Science Sort of.
0:26.4	Hello and welcome to Science Sort of.
0:28.0	It is I, your host, Brian Halpton.
0:33.5	This is episode 290, and our theme this week is because science live.
0:35.2	What does that mean?
0:39.2	What that means is it's been a week, my friends.
0:40.9	It has been kind of a rough one.
0:44.1	And in part because of some external circumstances,
0:49.3	we had a show planned that we were not able to record on time,
0:51.1	which, of course, is a little bit frustrating,
0:52.2	but that is the way it goes.
0:58.5	And believe it or not, we actually have a lot of really cool shows planned for the next couple of weeks slash months. So stay tuned because we're going to start dropping some really great stuff on y'all here in the not too
1:02.9	distant future. But first, if you check your feed regularly, you may have noticed that we put up
1:07.0	a short episode that was an extended preview for American Innovations, a podcast from the folks over at Wondry.
1:14.2	And I got Abe to hop on the mic with me just so I'd have someone else to introduce that little preview.
1:19.7	But unbeknownst to me, our own Joe Bat Winnis is already a fan of that podcast.
1:24.1	And so he recorded a little snippet to kind of encourage folks to go check
1:28.5	out that preview and the podcast if they haven't already done so. So take it away, Joe.
1:32.4	Hey, paleo pals, Joe here. You may have heard a preview on this channel for a new season of a podcast
1:37.3	from Wondery called American Innovations. What you didn't hear during that preview was my voice.
1:43.2	That's because Ryan didn't even give me 30 minutes to respond to his message about recording it before he ran off and asked Abe to record instead.
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