Is That T-Rex Coming On To Me?

Live from the Poundstone Institute

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4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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This week, a paleontologist tells us all about Tyrannosaurus sex, otherwise known as T-Sex. And we talk to a researcher who played Rush Limbaugh and Rachel Maddow to wild animals, for a very good scientific reason. Plus, former Daily Show correspondent and host of The Nightly Show Larry Wilmore drops by to take our patented personality test.

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0:21.3	Hey you know Paul is an interesting piece of research just came in.
0:25.2	You want to hear it?
0:26.2	Yeah.
0:27.2	So it turns out female hurricanes are more destructive than male hurricanes.
0:30.5	Really?
0:31.5	Well, hurricanes don't technically have genders.
0:34.0	We're talking about the female-named ones.
0:35.0	Do you see the **** on that hurricane?
0:37.0	Yeah, exactly.
0:38.0	You never hear that.
0:39.0	But no, the researchers analysed hurricanes from 1950 to 2012 and found that the ones with women's names killed way more people.
0:47.1	Wow, well not why not just name them all guys names then?
0:51.7	You know that moving forward that might be the way to go. So why is that?
0:58.0	Well they have a theory as to why and that is because people perceive female named hurricanes as less dangerous and
1:04.4	therefore do not prepare as well.
1:06.3	Oh, because yeah, a little bit sexist, right?
1:11.5	Women can kill with the best of them.
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