Medusology (JELLYFISH) with Rebecca Helm

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.9 • 23.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2020

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

What even *is* a jellyfish?! How do they eat? What are they made of? Can we eat them? Your new favorite Medusologist, Dr. Rebecca Helm, is a ray of human sunshine in the depths of the deep sea. Truly one of the finest biology conversations you may ever hear. Get ready for PacMan ghosts, pet jellyfish, the biggest and smallest jellies, new band names, live medusas, secret formulas to incite jellyfish puberty, and the lengths that she will go to to see a jelly bloom. And next week, your ears will fill with Toxinology as we explore jellyfish VENOM. Duck into the Polyp Parlor; this is a duo not to be missed. Dr. Rebecca Helm’s Jellyfish Blog and website: https://jellybiologist.com/ Follow her at Twitter.com/rebeccarhelm or twitter.com/rebeccarhelm A donation went to The Vancouver Aquarium: www.vanaqua.org Look at their Jelly Cam! https://www.vanaqua.org/visit/live-cams-jelly-cam Sponsor links: kiwico.com/ologies For more links: alieward.com/ologies/medusology Transcripts & bleeped episodes at: alieward.com/ologies-extras Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month: www.Patreon.com/ologies OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, pins, totes and uh...bikinis? Hi. Yes. Follow twitter.com/ologies or instagram.com/ologies Follow twitter.com/AlieWard or instagram.com/AlieWard Sound editing by Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media & Steven Ray Morris Theme song by Nick Thorburn Support the show: http://Patreon.com/ologies

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0:00.0	Oh, hey, it's that podcast that you thought dropped on Tuesdays and it does.
0:04.8	I promise it's just been a wacky couple of weeks and thank you for bearing with me.
0:09.2	It's Ali Ward back with another episode of Oligies.
0:11.6	Um, also, yes, last week's AMA went up on a Tuesday night, but it just mysteriously unpublished itself.
0:19.0	And I was on the road to my folks house on Wednesday not knowing this.
0:22.8	So apologies that it wasn't republished until Thursday.
0:25.8	We got it up on Tuesday for you.
0:27.3	Anyway, technical goblins.
0:29.3	Thank you for bearing with them.
0:30.6	Um, a lot has happened since last week.
0:32.8	Uh, my pops is on the mend and hopefully will be sprung from the hospital soon.
0:37.4	Um, yesterday though, I left his hospital room to check into the ER myself for an infected spider bite and found out that I might have something called blood poisoning.
0:50.8	So it's been an eventful couple of days, but I have some antibiotics.
0:55.1	Thank you for everyone on Twitter and my friend Mike Natter for your medical guidance.
1:00.1	Um, yes, I'm doing a little bit better, but it's been a rough couple of days.
1:04.1	Um, but on Sunday, I won an ME for writing for the Henry Ford's Innovation Nation with Moraka.
1:10.1	If you were like, what, you're on a show.
1:12.1	I'm very bad at self-promotion, but yes, every single Saturday on CBS.
1:15.6	And also I host my own show on CW Did I Mention Invention?
1:19.1	So if you need science shows to watch with your kiddos,
1:21.2	there are a few Emmy winning programs with your weird old dad word.
1:25.2	Okay, so this episode, whoo, I don't know how to prepare you for what you're in for because it's so, so, so good.
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