Ep 76: Science... sort of - Alien Ant Farm

Science... sort of

Brachiolope

Natural Sciences, Science

4.7 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2011

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

00:00:00 – Fungus and ants have a complex relationship, sometimes the ants are farming the fungus, other times the fungi are infecting the ants in the brain and reprogramming their behavior for their own nefarious needs. Tit for tat, right? The Paleopals bring on Kelly Weinersmith to talk cordyceps and other parasitic "pests" in our great weird world.

00:30:43 – After the horrors of infestation we all could use a good drink. Jacob tries to impress, Patrick has a present from the wife and Ryan talks about his own infected beer much to Patrick's envy.

00:38:39 - You know things are bad when LA is your only hope, but that's the situation in this week's Trailer Trash Talk where the guys are chatting Battle: Los Angeles

For those who are curious Brian Dunning did an episode of Skeptoid about the Battle of Los Angeles which is well worth your time once you're done with all the back episodes of Science... sort of.
Ryan, on the other hand, compares this movie to some comic he read called Irredeemable, where the Superman-esque character decides to take us out, and we all lose.

00:53:47 – The guys think because they're scientists they can figure out how a movie will do at the box office, their HSX league seems to show that not to be the case. However, there are a group of people who claim they can do just that given only scripts. Skepticism abounds.

01:18:53 – PaleoPOWs are a lot like the weather; hard to predict in advance. Jacob reads an iTunes review from Dr. RickLoftus (maybe one word?) which seems to be a prescription for enjoyment. Patrick brings us a missive from Guy D. who has created some really cool broken art of a Brachiolope vs. a Ninja on his Facebook page, if you want to see it you can try being friends with The Guy but there's always the Brachiolope Gallery or on his website Inside the Atheist Studio. Thanks, Guy! And finally Ryan reads a poem from Chris which you can either listen to or read yourself on the Paleocave blog!

Music for this week's show:

That Bug Bit Me - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Los Angeles is Burning - Bad Religion
Movies - Alien Ant Farm

Transcript

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0:00.0	Yeah, if you want to leave everything I said out of your podcast, that's fine.
0:04.3	Hello, and welcome to Science Sort of.
0:13.8	You are listening to Science Sort of Episode 76.
0:17.8	The theme this week is Alien Ant Farm.
0:27.5	I'm your host Ryan, joining me, as always and less than usual, are the Paleo Pals, Patrick.
0:42.7	Hello out there in iTunes, Zune, Juice, and any other software you might use to listen to our voices to your ear holes land and and Jacob hello out there in America and Canada and every other continent that we are in all 15 Canadian
0:49.0	listeners enjoy the sounds of Jacob a this. This is a show.
0:54.5	It's a podcast.
0:55.2	It happens once a week.
0:56.4	And we talk about things that are science,
0:57.9	things that are sort of science,
0:59.3	and things that wish they were science.
1:01.4	And there's one thing we've learned is that there's nothing better than parasitism,
1:08.0	both in the natural world and in using the knowledge of other people to,
1:14.4	to, you know, improve our own show, right?
1:19.0	Yeah.
1:19.5	I followed that.
1:20.3	That was good.
1:20.8	I get it.
1:21.3	Was that good?
1:22.0	I felt that was great.
1:22.5	We tend to cite our sources.
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