Ep 175: Science... sort of - Reaching Out

Science... sort of

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4.8 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2013

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

00:00:00 - Scifund is expanding into more than just funding, now they're teaching scientists how to do outreach to the public! Patrick and Ryan sit down with two of the instructors (Jai and Kelly) and two of the students (Jane and Meg) to hash out how it all went down. Part 1 of the conversation focuses on the instructors and just how they put this class together.

00:23:55 - Drinks can lead to outreach, but also fights, so be careful out there in outreach-land. Patrick sets the tone with Batch 19, which he and Ryan agree was a dirty trick by MillerCoors, but could have been worse. Meg made the beer that she, Jane, and Ryan are all enjoying. Ryan is having a doppelbock, while Jane and Meg sup a maibock. Which Jai confuses with a Maybach. But that confusion may be because he's having methanol, which is not OK. And now that DOMA is unconstitutional, Kelly is reconsidering her relationship with Guinness. Fun fact: Guinness is also the home of the Student's t-test in addition to tasty beers, chronicled in a book Meg enjoyed called The Lady Tasting Tea.

00:33:28 - Trailer Trash Talk has roughly 100% less Idris Elba than last week, a fact repeatedly noticed by Jai as he and everyone else try to make sense of the preview for Europa Report. Jai, in between Elba-love, also mentions the implausibility of the entire premise based on a book he read called Mankind Beyond Earth.

00:51:59 - Part 2 of our discussion is all about the participants. So post-docs Jane Zelikova and Meg Mobley talk about just what they got out of taking this class, and how that will affect their own outreach down the line.

01:29:32 - PaleoPOWs comprise 1 of the 4 best segments of the podcast. Kelly starts us off with a donation from Robert M., who wants to know how distributed his donation will be in support of the rest of the Brachiolope Media Network. Patrick presents an idea from Matthew P. concerning extra frog legs and parasites. Much discussion ensues, indicating that it was very likely a good point. Ryan finishes out the segment with a Facebook post from Andrew S. all about his podcast fidelity. We'd love to believe you Andrew, but we've been hurt before.

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Music for this week's show:

Come Downstairs And Say Hello - Guster

I Go Blind - Hootie and the Blowfish

Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival

I Can Learn - The White Stripes

Transcript

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0:00.0	Greetings, people over Earth.
0:19.5	From Science Sort of.com, you're listening to Science Sort of.
0:26.6	Hello, welcome to Science Sort of this episode 174.
0:34.2	Our theme this week is reaching out.
0:36.4	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 are two of my favorite paleo pals of the six that are possible. One of them is Kelly.
0:45.3	Hello! How was my hello on the weekly Wienersmith? Was that good? It was good. It was very Kelly-like. Oh. Oh, I'm so glad. And we're also joined by Patrick.
0:54.7	Come bonois. What? What do you say? I'm not, I think that's good evening in Japanese, but it might be good
1:00.1	afternoon, I'm not sure. So hopefully everyone's listening to this at the appropriate time. Also,
1:06.1	joining us is a familiar friend of the show, and that's Jay Ronganganathan. Hey, guys. Hey, Jay, how's it going?
1:11.4	I always forget, and today was no exception to look up the last time you're on the show,
1:14.7	so I don't know when that was, but you've been on the show at least twice,
1:18.9	and those were both nice times.
1:21.3	Why, it's a highlight for me, too.
1:26.1	We are also being joined by two relative podcasting newbies, one of which is Jane Zelikova.
1:31.3	Hi.
1:32.1	And Jane, you're going to have to say your own position again because it was too complicated
1:35.6	for me to remember.
1:36.4	Okay, I'm a postdoc, and I'm split between botany and ecosystem management departments
1:41.6	at the University of Wyoming.
1:43.0	Awesome.
1:43.4	And also, is it Meg Moble?
1:44.5	How do you see what I was named?
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