Episode 270 - Dr. Danna Staaf

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

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

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Science writer, educator, and artist Dr. Danna Staaf recently published her first book, Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods, and she joins Matt and Andy to talk about her dissertation on the reproduction and early life of Humboldt squid, penis fencing among hermaphroditic flatworms, the fact that calamari pre-date the dinosaurs, and why we should all have a lot more respect and awe for cephalopods in general.

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0:00.0	Probably Science
0:02.0	Hello and welcome to Probably Science. My name's Andy Wood.
0:13.4	I'm Matt Kirshan.
0:14.7	This is a long time coming. It's been too long since we've had an actual science guest on.
0:18.9	I'm very excited.
0:19.6	It's true. I feel very relaxed and
0:21.4	happy about this episode. We don't have to do much heavy lifting. We don't have to do, yeah,
0:24.9	we haven't had to do the research on this one. My, the Jim Jeffrey show is almost over. So
0:30.0	there's less scheduling conflicts. It's a pleasant 76 degree Saturday afternoon in southern
0:36.7	California.
0:38.8	And we have a pro on the show.
0:40.8	Let's just get right into it, shall we?
0:54.2	Dana's stuff, PhD on Squids, now a science writer, and currently, and the writer, the publisher, the creator, the creator of the brand new book, Squid Empire.
0:56.5	The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods.
0:58.0	How's it going, Dana?
0:58.8	It's great.
1:00.2	Thank you so much for having me.
1:01.3	I'm delighted to be here.
1:02.9	I'm really glad we hooked this up.
1:08.5	Friend of the show, Kathleen Ritterbush introduced us, and you don't normally live in L.A., but she was like, you're going to be coming to town.
1:11.3	And she connected us.
1:12.4	It was perfect.
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