Ep 102: Science... sort of - With a Grain of Salt
Science... sort of
Brachiolope
4.7 • 674 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2011
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
00:00:00 - Mars just keeps better, this time because it's a bit wetter. Charlie explains the science behind the discovery, especially how we were able to taste something on another planet.
00:16:43 - Patrick keeps his beverage dark and Cascadian, Charlie searches for a glass (why didn't he just check our store?) and Ryan is feeling dark and stormy.
00:23:02 - Trailer Trash Talk is looking to take a nice country drive. But that's not what Drive is about at all. Does the trailer live up to the poster? Does it even live up to the font? And what are driving gloves even for? Find out!
00:38:59 - Science is under threat! The threat of the 'decline effect.' Jonah Lehrer wrote about it and the Paleopals discuss his findings. Ironically, they find less significance in the decline effect, which kind of makes sense if you think about it...
- Check out the RadioLab episode also on this subject
- Plus one of Jonah Lehrer's books Proust was a Neuroscientist
01:05:48 - PaleoPOWs are fortunately not subject to the decline effect. They just keep getting better! This week is no exception. Ryan has donations from Sarah B., a possibly forgotten Gaylen, and both (that's right, both!) his parents. Thanks everyone! You're keeping the lights on and the mics hot! Charlie gets more ethanol feedback (the story that just won't die) from Midwesterner Jeff! And finally, Patrick has a lengthy e-mail from Jesse C. about radio and forensics. Just how the heck are those two related?! Tune in to find out!
Thanks for listening! Our blog has saltwater in it too, check it out at Paleocave.com!
Music from this week's show:
Will There Be Enough Water? - The Dead Wate
Raise Your Glass - Autopilot Off
Drive - Matt Costa
It's Coming Down - Cake
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The thing about Scroodd Big Duck, though, is he would die every time he tried to dive into a pile of coins, because that's not going to just flow around you like water. |
| 0:08.7 | It's true. |
| 0:09.8 | It's metal. |
| 0:10.7 | It's going to hurt. |
| 0:11.5 | Hello, and welcome to Science Sort of. |
| 0:20.1 | Hello, welcome to Science Sort of. This is episode 102. I will be your host, Ryan, and this week's theme is Science Sort of with a grain of salt, because you should always take things with a grain of salt, and that's what we intend to talk about tonight. |
| 0:33.4 | Joining me to talk about that, in which we will discuss things that are science, things that are sort of science, and things that wish they were science are my podcasting paleo palo palaeo-companions, Patrick. |
| 0:45.2 | Good-day. |
| 0:46.1 | You got to go first because the alliteration. |
| 0:48.7 | Oh. |
| 0:49.8 | And Charlie. |
| 0:51.3 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:52.2 | You got to go second because that's traditionally how I introduce you guys. |
| 0:56.1 | That's true. |
| 0:58.1 | But Charlie, those who shall be last in the introduction shall be first in the actual science that we cover. |
| 1:04.1 | Therefore, I think it's safe to say that in the words of Mark Twain, reports of Mars's dryness have been greatly exaggerated. |
| 1:10.2 | So why don't you tell us about that? |
| 1:12.3 | Yeah, so there may be some seasonal water flowing on Mars, on steep slopes deep in the southern |
| 1:19.6 | hemisphere. And this is pretty exciting stuff because there's plenty of evidence of water |
| 1:25.3 | flowing on Mars's surface deep in its past. |
| 1:28.9 | Yours truly has written a paper on it, but there is little, if any, evidence of water |
| 1:34.5 | present on the surface of Mars in the present epoch today, that is. |
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