Ep 198: Science... sort of - Finds A Way

Science... sort of

Brachiolope

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4.8 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2014

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

00:00:00 - Like a modern day Cassandra, scientists have long predicted that insects would catch up to our GMO crops. Now, even though the biotech companies did their best to keep it hidden, corn rootworms have infested the US corn supply. Thanks for not even pretending to listen.

00:23:28 - Ryan has a riff on a Cuba Libre known as a Cubata using actual Cuban rum. Abe and Ryan manage to make sense of Abe's My Antonia from Dogfish Head. And Charlie has a terroir-agnostic Pleiades blend red wine.

00:34:24 - The tech-nerd rapture knowns as the Singularity comes under scrutiny both as a concept and as a plotline when the guys watch the preview of Transcendence in this week's Trailer Trash Talk!

00:54:07 - Y'know that big thing up in the sky? No, the other one. The nighttime one. Well for a long time we thought it was as necessary as the daytime sky object (aka the Sun) but mayhaps life can evolve without a stabilizing moon. Doesn't mean we don't still love ya, moon!

01:17:45 - PalePOWs are a lot like moons. We only go their occasionally and seldom return. Abe starts us off with a donation from Michael S. Thanks, Michael! Charlie has a nice comment from active Irishman Liam O'Grady, reminding us of our very first Special Edition episode. And Ryan fields a question from Bobbi B. about the nature of dinosaur herds and the shape of human penises, based on some stuff said during his hijacking of The Weekly Weinersmiths. Maybe listen to that part using headphones.

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Music for this week's show:

Into the Cornfields - Colin Hay

Can't Stop - The Red Hot Chili Peppers

Machinehead - Bush

The Killing Moon - Echo and the Bunnymen

Transcript

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0:00.0	When I wake up, well I know I'm going to be, I'm going to be the man who wakes up next to you.
0:06.6	Not many can get away with singing in a Scottish accent.
0:09.8	From science sort of.com, you're listening to Science Sort of. This is episode 198. Our theme this week is Fines Away, because when you say it all together, science sort of finds away. Sounds like we got our act together. And we totally have. As you will soon hear, as we
0:37.7	discuss things that are science, things that are sort of science, and things that wish they were
0:40.5	science, with me, your host, Ryan, and I'm joined, as always, by two Paleo Palo, podcasting
0:45.7	partners in crime, one of which is Charlie Barnhart. Present.. I said the De Jesus because it's almost Easter.
0:55.7	Good point.
0:56.6	So, thanks for rising up and joining us, Abe.
0:59.8	Always a pleasure.
1:01.1	Thanks for bringing spring.
1:02.5	We need it.
1:04.4	I do my best every year, Charlie.
1:06.5	Sometimes I forget.
1:07.8	And now that we're done blaspheming,
1:09.3	let's talk about worms that also have risen up to destroy the world.
1:12.7	Is that what Jesus was doing?
1:13.9	Is that Shiva?
1:14.6	I'm very confused.
1:15.5	Vishnu, what's happening?
1:16.9	We were talking about, what's the type of worm?
1:19.5	I guess is it actually a worm or is it a bug?
1:21.9	Root worm.
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