Lancelot Drink and Headless Slugs

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

Society & Culture, Gadgets, Internet, Comedy, Culture, Science, News, Pop, Games

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

What separates us from the primates? Opposable thumbs? Self-awareness? What if it's water efficiency? Anthony and Jeff discuss a new study just might provide an answer an age-old question in an entirely new way. Then, researchers have discovered a kind of sea slug that can cut it's own head off and regrow its body over a series of weeks. Jeff and Anthony wonder what THAT'S like.

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0:00.0	This is an award-winning science podcast.
0:19.9	This is We Have Concerns.
0:21.3	Hi Jeff Canata.
0:22.3	Hi Anthony Carboni.
0:24.8	Hello, Concerned citizens.
0:28.2	We should start every episode that way from now on.
0:32.4	This is an award-winning science.
0:33.9	This is not that kind of podcast.
0:35.7	This is a science comedy podcast.
0:37.7	An award-winning science comedy podcast.
0:40.9	That's how we start it now.
0:42.4	Yeah, I'd be down for that.
0:44.7	Why not?
0:47.8	So I did find, you know, one of the things that I've found interesting during all this
0:51.7	Jeff is of course, if you go to places like the subreddit, the science subreddit or any
0:57.9	of the big science sites right now, of course, a lot of the science that's being done right
1:04.9	now is sort of database science.
1:08.6	That's about how we live and sort of economics and what is this, what is the psychological
1:17.1	and physiological state of people who have more money, people who have less money.
1:20.1	And I'm going to tell you something.
1:21.3	I found a bunch of, every week I find a bunch of stories in that vein that are kind of
1:25.1	interesting.
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