Ep 83: Science... sort of - Down Under

Science... sort of

Brachiolope

Natural Sciences, Science

4.7 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2011

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

00:00:00 - Turns out Australia and Antarctica have more in common than just being giant deserts. A new study in Nature Geoscience reports that Antarctica is stealing Australia's moisture and it's all humanity's fault! C'mon Southern Hemisphere, can't you guys just all get along?

00:13:35 - This week Patrick is supping a grape fruit from New Zealand, Ryan kicks back a Fosters to then transition into a relatively palatable Harpoon Celtic Ale and Charlie requests sponsorship from his old standby, the Lagunitas IPA.

00:18:41 - Jacob jumps in mid-transition to help Ryan announce the upcoming Florida Science... sort of meetup. Details at the Paleocave blog!

00:21:27 - Trailer Trash Talks finds itself in a weird yet familiar place as the Paleopals discuss the 4th installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, On Stranger Tides.

00:30:28 - The pesky paleontologists have discovered a couple of new marsupials down in Aus. The crazy part is the convergent angle evolution between these basal mammals and some modern lizards. When you want to eat snails, you'll evolve just about anything.

00:39:20 - PaleoPOWs are a lot like Australia, most people never both to go there, and most who do get burned. Charlie has an e-mail from Jesse at NYU who informs the Paleopals about other mammals with only one set of chompers. Ryan has a donation from Chad G. who suggests a brewery Ryan has preemptively partaken of. Also, Ryan is very awkward with issues of money, let's not ask him to do this ever again, agreed? Finally, Patrick has an apologetic and follicular Brachiolope from Denis that can be seen at the appropriately named Brachiolope Gallery.

Thanks for listening. A blog exists! It's named the Paleocave Blog. Y'know, just in case.

Music for this week's show:

You Shit Me to Tears - The Tenants

You Sound Like Louis Burdett - The Whitlams

The Mariner's Revenge Song - The Decemberists

Land Down Under - Men at Work

Transcript

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0:00.0	You feeling weak in the knees? It's because it's science sort of time.
0:02.8	Word to your mom.
0:04.3	All of your moms.
0:06.6	Hello, and welcome to Science Sort of.
0:15.5	Welcome. You are listening to Science Sort of.
0:18.1	This is episode 83, the 83th episode we've ever done together,
0:22.3	85th if you count the specials. My name is Ryan. I will be your host this week.
0:27.0	Joining me to discuss the theme of Down Under as well as things that are science, things that are
0:31.2	sort of science, and things that wish they were science, are the other paleo pals, one of which is
0:36.7	Patrick. Top of the science to you. The one of which is Patrick. Top of the science to you.
0:39.1	The other of which is Charlie.
0:41.3	Representing the Bay Area with Patrick.
0:43.9	Now, Patrick, you said top of the science to you, but this week we're going down under.
0:47.7	Isn't that right?
0:48.7	That's right, Ryan.
0:49.7	What were you thinking?
0:50.9	I don't know. I guess I wasn't thinking.
0:53.2	All right. Well, how far down under are we going?
0:56.2	We're going all the way. But wait, there's more. Maybe it's the top. He was just not being
1:02.8	Ameri-centric. So we are starting from the south and working our way north because our first
1:07.8	story involves the interaction of Australia and Antarctica.
1:12.5	Right.
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