Ep 191: Science... sort of - The Spice Must Flow

Science... sort of

Brachiolope

Of, Science, Network, Paleopals, Media, Brachiolope, Natural Sciences, Sort

4.8 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2014

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

00:00:00 - Charlie and Ryan are joined by Chad Jones, the host of the newest show in the Brachiolope Media Network, The Collapsed Wavefunction! Our first topic is about modifying the surface of the planet to run experiments about sand dune formations. It's possibly the most excited Charlie has been on the mic in a long time. Plus, Chad informs us about hydrophobic sand, which sounds dangerously fun.

00:18:55 - The drinks too, must flow. Charlie has the very proprietary Rogue Chocolate Stout. Chad, clearly worried he won't be invited back anytime soon, doubles down with a Jone's Soda and a Flying Cauldron Butterscotch Beer. Ryan begins his local beer journal with the totally expected Cerveza Panama.

oo:24:55 - Trailer Trash Talk goes tactical (whatever that means) with the preview for the all-new but not really new at all remake of the 80's 'classic' Robocop.

00:36:09 - Robots may not sweat, but people do. People also need drinking water. Well now some nerds have made a machine to turn human sweat into drinkable water. Refreshing, or just gross?

01:01:09 - PaleoPOWs are a lot drinking your own sweat; self-involved and perplexing to others. Charlie thanks Kris T. for a nice e-mail and hefty donation. Thanks, Kris! Ryan fields a correction about gender vs. sex from Episode 183 sent in by Liam T. (not from England). And Chad thankfully knows the answers to Liz C.'s questions of chirality and sugar substitutes. Be sure to bug Chad on Twitter and tell him about the chemical topics you want to hear on his podcast!

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

Music for this week's show:

Dune Buggy - Presidents of the United States of America

Panama - Van Halen

I Am Not A Robot - Marina and the Diamonds

Don't Drink the Water - Dave Matthews Band

Transcript

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0:00.0	All right. Anything to add, Charlie?
0:03.0	No, I was totally zoning out, so I'll be winging it.
0:07.0	From science sort of.com, you're listening to Science Sort of. This is episode 191. The theme this week is The Spice Must Flow, a nice sci-fi reference for all you nerds out there. This week, I, your host, Ryan, am joined by two other awesome people to talk about things
0:40.5	that are science, things that are sort of science, and things that wish they were science.
0:44.0	One is the familiar and comfortable Charlie Barnhart.
0:47.0	Happy to be back.
0:48.4	And the other is the new and frightening, Chad Jones.
0:50.7	Happy to be here.
0:51.5	Wait, frightening?
0:52.3	I don't know.
0:52.9	Maybe people will be scared.
0:54.1	You're made of chemicals, Chad. Chad Jones. Happy to be here. What, frightening? I don't know. Maybe people will be scared.
0:59.6	You're made of chemicals, Chad. No, no. Oh, yeah. I guess chemicals are scary.
1:06.2	So chemistry is just scary, right? It is totally scary. So for those who do not already know, Chad Jones is the chemist responsible for the collapsed wave function blog and podcast, the podcast being
1:13.7	the newest member of the esteemed Braculate meeting network. Yeah, well, you say I'm frightening and
1:19.0	then you say I'm responsible for. Neither of those things sound too good. You're on trial tonight,
1:24.0	Chad. This is your reckoning. Oh, I'm suddenly scared. No, don't be scared. This is,
1:29.4	this is going to be, we just, I had to start you off rough, and then we're just going to ease you
1:33.1	into the science and then further into the sort of. It's going to be fine, Chad. It's going to be fine.
1:37.1	Okay, okay. I'm okay. I promise you haven't been in a horrible accident and turned into some sort of robotic monstrosity. Okay. It doesn't happen for at least another half hour into the show.
1:46.6	Oh, and I see what you did there.
1:48.2	They will too, but I see it now.
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