Ep 132: Science... sort of - Under Pressure

Science... sort of

Brachiolope

Natural Sciences, Science

4.7 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2012

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

00:00:00 - A new study sheds light on the effects of social hierarchies in monkeys, which may then help us understand why those of lower social status are less healthy than their well-to-do peers. Finally, monkeys helping the poor instead of just messing stuff up.

00:11:39 - Drinks, they're what monkeys wish they had to unwind. Charlie ups the ante with a Drake's IPA. Patrick keeps it local with a Starr Hill Jomo lager. And Ryan is perplexed by the hipster can of his Sixpoint Resin Imperial IPA.

00:16:11 - This week's Trailer Trash Talks discusses the pleasant lack of found footage, the creepiness of little girls, and the propensity of Russians for drink all contained within the preview of Chernobyl Diaries.

00:26:04 - Fossil raindrops be falling! We know they happened, but under what conditions? A new study sheds light upon the status of the atmosphere whence old rain fell. Further, this also helps explain the 'faint young sun paradox'. All that science from one old rock with dimples! Thanks for Manuel G. for submitting this story via our Facebook page!

00:38:09 - PaleoPOWs are a lot like fossil raindrops, they can both be used as proxies for the atmosphere of the room. Patrick rejoices in the addition of a NEW RECURRING DONATION via Tommy G. all the way from Lund, Sweden! Ryan gets slightly self conscious over a website comment left by Shanna. And Charlie reads our first new iTunes review in over a month from Sciencer44, who may just want a prize pack, but was willing to give us 5 stars to get it!

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Music for this week's show provided by:

My Monkey - Jonathan Coulton

I Like Beer - Tom T. Hall

Under Pressure - Queen

Have You Ever Seen The Rain? - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Transcript

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0:00.0	Well, it is now time.
0:02.0	From science sort of.com, you're listening to Science Sort of.
0:10.1	You are listening to Science Sort of.
0:15.4	This is episode 132.
0:18.1	This week's theme is under pressure.
0:25.3	And joining me, under the pressure of a live microphone are my paleo palo palo podcast and partners in crime Patrick hello compadres and charlie what's up everybody
0:31.8	Patrick and Charlie are joining me as they usually do to talk about things that are science things
0:35.7	that are sort of science and things that wish they were science.
0:38.4	It's the first time it's been all three of us for a while.
0:40.6	Yeah.
0:41.0	Haven't even been around.
0:42.5	Yep.
0:42.9	Feels good.
0:43.7	Feels right.
0:44.4	Like wearing a glove or riding a bike or putting on biking gloves.
0:52.2	Anyway, Charlie sent out a story this week, and it was from The Economist, because Charlie's all highfalutin like that, and it was all about, like, he said it had to do with, you know, social status and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
1:02.8	I thought it was going to be all psychological and economical, and turned out it was about monkeys.
1:08.1	It's a monkey story.
1:09.3	If it's not physics or planets or energy, it's going to be a monkey story coming from me.
1:13.3	Well, tell us about your monkeys, Charlie.
1:15.2	All right.
1:15.6	So the specific monkey species we're talking about are macaques.
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