Ep 181: Science... sort of - Living Under A Rock

Science... sort of

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4.8 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2013

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

00:00:00 - As with most other fish tales, the truth of the story of the really old rockfish is that it wasn't really all that old in the first place. Oh well. Charlie also learns why it's hard to describe what a fish is, which you can learn more about on the What the Fish? podcast. And if you want to learn how to eat the right kinds of fish, the Monterey Bay Aquarium has you covered with this handy app.

00:16:22 - Drinks are for when you're old enough. This week Charlie enjoys a Fresh-Squeezed IPA from Deschuttes Brewery. Kelly makes a startling confession, but you'll have to listen to learn it. And Ryan is trying to up his game with a La Crema Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir, which Charlie agrees is a good one.

00:20:47 - Things get heavy when the gang straps in to discuss Gravity on this week's Trailer Trash Talk!

00:33:23 - We all know we have plenty of wind floating around, but how do we make sure it's around when we need it? A new study proposes storing wind in porous rocks to be used later. One step closer to living in a sci-fi world.

00:50:45 - PaleoPOWs are often also stored underground until needed. Kelly is excited about a new recurring donation from Courtney H. Thanks, Courtney! Catherine calls in to leave a voicemail about why the clouds change color throughout the day, a topic Ryan and Charlie deftly handle while also mentioning Ben's Titanium Physicist episode on a similar subject. And Charlie reports back that Cade K., Amy, and EJCulbert have all told us about the availability of Battle Chess on Good Old Games. Finally, in terms of other podcasts, Kelly was recently on Wild Ideas and Ryan did a whole week of the STAR WARS MINUTE. Check them out!

Thanks for listening and be sure to check out the Brachiolope Media Network for more great science podcasts!

Music for this week's show provided by:

Old Man Time - O.A.R.

Baby, It's A Fact - Hellogoodbye

Gravity (A Spaceman's Song) - Red Wanting Blue

Wind Below - Rage Against The Machine

Transcript

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0:00.0	Okay, we recovered about 30 seconds, Kelly, but we don't have time.
0:02.3	We're going to go.
0:03.6	Go, go, go.
0:06.3	From sciencesortov.com, you're listening to Science Sort of.
0:19.8	Hello and welcome to Science Sortive. Our theme this week is Living Under a Rock, and this week is episode 181.
0:28.6	That's a lot of weeks of episodes, but that's where we're at. My name is Ryan. I am your host, and I will be coordinating a discussion of things that are science, things that are sort of science,
0:38.0	and things that wish they were science.
0:39.9	Joining me are two of the old pros, professionals, each experts of their own.
0:45.1	One of them is Kelly Wienersmith.
0:47.6	Hello.
0:48.5	The other of which is Charlie Barnhart.
0:51.3	Glad you to be here.
0:52.8	All right.
0:53.4	Well, with that out of the way, with those silly things
0:56.1	like introductions out of the way, Kelly, how old are fish some of the times? Well, there's a lot of
1:01.9	variability, but apparently there's one that might be about 200 years old. The first article
1:06.9	that we're talking about today is a live science article where they reported that someone
1:11.7	caught a fish off the coast of Alaska and that they thought it was probably about 200 years old
1:17.6	based on its size. And the oldest other fish that had been caught was 175 years old. And both of
1:23.9	these fish, I believe, are rockfish. And these are fish that grow very slowly but live to be really old. They generally take about 20 years to reach reproductive maturity so they don't start breeding until they're 20, which makes them kind of a troubling fish in terms of fisheries because if you catch them before they're 20, then they never get a chance to breed. And that complicates things. But anyway, so they lived for a really long time.
1:45.4	One definitely lived to be 175 years and was caught.
1:48.6	And this one, they said, looked like it was probably about that old also.
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