Episode 070 - Crystal Dilworth and Alexandra Lockwood

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

Jessecase, Comedy, News, Mattkirshen, Standup, Andywood, Science & Medicine, Science, Brookswheelan

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2013

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Matt and Andy go on location to the campus of Caltech this week to welcome PhD candidates, actors (phdmovie.com) and science communicators (phdcomics.com/tv) Crystal Dilworth (twitter.com/PolycrystalhD) and Alexandra Lockwood (twitter.com/AlexCLockwood) to the show, delving into: Dancers moonlighting as scientists! The myth of tryptophan! Preferential treatment for doctors and lords! Penguins getting knighted in Denmark! The PhD Movie! More 3D printer talk! Staring at the night sky! How to search for exoplanets! Hot Jupiters! Requiem for the Kepler telescope! The military importance of figuring out Earth's spherical harmonics! Shocking people's brains to make them better at math! How a damaged brain repairs itself! Male strippers: Turn-on or source of comedy? Empathetic enjoyment of lesbian porn! One-eyed enervation! Why kids make dumb choices! Babies like eyes that are far apart! Malaria mosquitoes are more attracted to humans! Defending your dissertation!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Probably Science
0:02.0	Welcome to Probably Science.
0:12.0	I am Andy Wood, joined as always by Matt Kirshin.
0:15.0	Hello. We're not in our normal spot.
0:17.0	No. We're away from Andy's patio.
0:19.0	Miles away.
0:20.0	Literally 14 or 15 miles away.
0:23.8	A different world.
0:25.3	It's as far away as we've ever gone.
0:27.3	Except for the time we did Portland.
0:29.2	Oh, that's true.
0:29.8	That's true also, yeah.
0:30.8	But Portland's another kind of Andy's patio.
0:33.1	That's true also.
0:34.2	All of these things, that's full of truth today.
0:37.4	We are out in Pasadena.
0:38.9	We're actually on the campus of Caltech.
0:41.0	Yeah, we are.
0:41.7	One of the greatest institutions of higher learning in the known universe, safe to say.
0:48.0	How much of the universe is known?
0:49.9	Who knows?
0:50.6	The people here.
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