Episode 225 - Grant Lyon
Probably Science
Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen
4.8 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2016
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Comedian and former environmental scientist Grant Lyon (@grantlyon1) joins Matt and Andy to talk about the Elkhorn Slough Foundation, naked cow science, why reservoirs aren’t all good, surgery farts, nightmare machines, sentencing algorithms, a third hominid and Patient Letter O.
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| 0:00.0 | This week's episode of Probably Science is brought to you by The Curiosity Box by Vsauce. |
| 0:05.2 | They ship out a mystery box once a quarter that's full of awesome geeky science toys and gear, |
| 0:09.8 | and proceeds go to benefit Alzheimer's research. |
| 0:12.5 | Visit curiositybox.com slash probably science to place your order, and you'll get a free Vsauce beanie. |
| 0:18.1 | Probably Science. |
| 0:31.1 | Hello and welcome to Probably Science. |
| 0:35.1 | My name's Andy Wood, and right over there to my left, that's Matt Kirshan. |
| 0:36.6 | Hey, what are the chances? |
| 0:40.2 | What do you do? It's got to be millions to one. Who lets you win? |
| 0:45.5 | If you think about, like, just cumulatively, because the chance of us being together on one podcast is relatively, like, not that unusual. But being together on this podcast. Yeah, and also, |
| 0:51.3 | times by the number of podcasts we've done. Like, we're, we're into the 200s now. |
| 0:56.5 | Yeah, you're getting into some, is this combinatorics? |
| 0:59.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.5 | What range of probability is this? |
| 1:01.3 | As long as each of these podcast events is independent, |
| 1:05.0 | then the chance is almost infinitesimal that we'd have been on together on so many. |
| 1:08.8 | Amazing. |
| 1:09.9 | God, our listeners are so lucky. |
| 1:11.9 | It gets to be a witness to this probabilistic marvel. |
| 1:15.8 | It's the most unlikely thing. |
| 1:17.9 | And the chances that I was going to be on this podcast were 100% because you asked me |
| 1:22.9 | specifically for this date. |
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