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Mike's Multiverse

Episode 109 - Exoplanets, Itches, and Bovine Polarity

Mike's Multiverse

Mike McHargue

Science, Leisure, Society & Culture, Games

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

For this week's Ask Science Mike, we address the following questions: Why do we get random itches? Can cows sense magnetic north? How can we tell if an exoplanet is habitable? Why do you believe in Jesus instead of a less-religion specific deity? 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. Why do we get random itches? Why Do We Itch? When you have an itch, what is happening under your skin? Why and how do body parts itch? Why does it feel good to scratch an itch? Solved! The Mystery of the Maddening Itch Can cows sense magnetic north? Moo North: Cattle and Deer May Sense Earth's Magnetic Field Magnetoreception How can we tell if an exoplanet is habitable? James Webb Space Telescope and Exoplanets NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star How to Search for Exoplanets Why do you believe in Jesus instead of a less-religion specific deity? Finding God in the Waves 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. 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.

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0:00.0

exoplanets, itches, and bovine polarity.

0:03.2

All that and more on this week's episode of Ask Science Mike. He's got answers even though he may not understand. He'll talk anyway.

0:17.0

We got problems. He won't talk there.

0:19.0

But he'll talk and talking and talking till it's blue in the face.

0:23.0

Science faith in life.

0:25.0

Ask Science Mike.

0:27.0

Welcome to Ask Science Mike, the weekly once again podcast where I answer questions about science, faith in life.

0:38.0

I apologize for a few weeks of dead air and down time.

0:43.0

I had a little bit of a medical incident that I've been recovering from.

0:45.8

We'll talk about that more after the break,

0:48.1

but I'm excited to be back hosting the show.

0:50.7

We've got some great questions this week, so let's get it started.

0:54.3

So my email in has been mobbed.

1:07.0

Because some of you listen to the show but you don't follow me on Twitter or on Facebook, which is fine.

1:13.9

That's not a social media plug.

1:15.9

But that means you didn't know why the show has been off the air,

1:22.1

whereas folks that follow me on social media got the low down. I have been

1:28.5

on tour as you know and as I got towards the end of a small string of dates, I had an incident. I had some stroke-like symptoms, had difficulty seeing, difficulty speaking, really, really intense headache and ended up going to the hospital and staying overnight there and they thought I had a stroke from the early testing with the

1:57.1

CAT scan and as they did a lot more intense testing including an MRI.

2:04.0

It looks like it was not a stroke, so yay, not a stroke.

2:08.0

But it seems like all the traveling I've been doing with a existing brain injury

2:17.4

essentially got me into kind of a chronic migraine situation and basically I was in a migraine I never got out of for

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