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Mike's Multiverse

Episode 108 - Gay Parents, Foster Care, and Death by Machete or Chimpanzee

Mike's Multiverse

Mike McHargue

Science, Leisure, Society & Culture, Games

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

For this week's Ask Science Mike, we address the following questions: What makes a good radio voice? How do you research questions? Is God involved with creation? Would you rather fight a chimpanzee or a human with a machete to the death? Are kids harmed by growing up with same-sex parents? Is foster care bad for children? You're in charge of this program. All you have to do is submit a question using #asksciencemike on Twitter, YouTube, or Soundcloud. You can also submit questions anonymously on asksciencemike.com. Ask Science Mike is made possible by listeners like you. Learn more on our Patreon page. Here are some resources on each answer if you'd like to dig deeper. What makes a good radio voice? Secrets of a great 'radio voice’ revealed What Makes A Voice ‘Attractive?’ New Study Reveals Surprising Answer Science Explains Why You Love Morgan Freeman's Voice How to Improve the Sound of Your Voice Is God involved with creation? Finding God in the Waves Are kids harmed by growing up with same-sex parents? What does the scholarly research say about the wellbeing of children with gay or lesbian parents? Is foster care bad for children? U.S. Foster Care: A Flawed Solution That Leads To Long-Term Problems? Preproduction by Andrew Galucki. Ask Science Mike is produced by Gregg Nordin. The Ask Science Mike theme song was written, performed, and recorded by Jeb Bodiford. If you need original podcast music, he's your guy. You've got questions, he's got answers. Even though we may not understand he'll talk anyway. You've got problems, he won't solve them, But he'll talk and talk and talk until he's blue in the face. Science, faith, and life - Ask Science Mike.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Gay Parents, Foster Care and Death by Macheti or Chimpanzy.

0:05.0

All that and more on this week's episode of Ask Science Mike. You've got questions, he's got answers, even though he may not understand,

0:17.0

I'll talk anyway.

0:18.0

We've got problems.

0:19.0

He won't solve it, but I'll talk and talk and talking till it's blue in the face.

0:25.0

Science, faith, and life.

0:27.0

Ask Science Mike.

0:29.0

Welcome to Ask Science Mike, the weekly podcast where I answer your questions about science,

0:37.8

faith and life.

0:39.8

Really excited to talk to all you new listeners who've come in from the recent featuring of the

0:44.6

literature podcast on NPR.

0:46.6

I hope you enjoy this strange little spinoff show we have here.

0:50.3

I've run out of things to say so professional whatever let's get it started

0:56.2

Oh man I love it when I'm just getting the show started and I'm already giggling

1:08.8

at myself. It's always a good sign. I really should do the intro again but I enjoy just admitting I have

1:18.4

nothing of value to say for the rest of the time that we have music that my friend Jeb wrote really funny.

1:26.3

Okay, let's talk about events. That's always fun. You like to know where we can see each other.

1:31.2

Today, the day this podcast comes out March 20th I'm in

1:34.7

Athens, Georgia at Iris 2017 that's the interdisciplinary research and ideas

1:40.8

symposium so I'll be the Hack podcaster among a bunch of actual academics, which I really genuinely

1:49.8

enjoy.

1:50.8

March 24th, I'll be at the Blue Conference in Fairfax, Virginia and my portion of that

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