Scorpiology (SCORPIONS) with Lauren Esposito

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.9 • 23.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Scorpions: the victims of undue shade. If you've ever wanted to impress a date with weird facts THIS IS THE EPISODE FOR YOU. A handful of people on planet Earth have a PhD in scorpions and Dr. Lauren Esposito is one of them. She spills the beans on how venom works, what's up with the blacklight glow effect, how dangerous they *really* are, what all the movies get wrong, the best names for scorpions, where she's traveled to look under rocks, where a scorpion's butt is, if scorpions dance or make out (SPOILER: YES), what good mothers they are, how big they used to be millions of years ago and how -- technically speaking -- they are not poisonous. Also: how much does a gallon of venom cost? Oh, and why she started the visibility campaign 500 Queer Scientists. Get this one in your ears right away. Follow Dr. Esposito at twitter.com/arachnologynerd or instagram.com/caribales and check out 500QueerScientists.com Sponsor links: Calm.com/Ologies, KiwiCo.com/Ologies, LinkedIn.com/Ologies This week's donation went to: www.Islandsseas.org More links at alieward.com/ologies/scorpiology Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month: www.Patreon.com/ologies OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, pins, totes! 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 a lady in front of you in the check out with 26 items who doesn't realize
0:05.0	she's in the express lane in his fully oblivious to your glares alleyward back with another
0:10.7	episode of Oligies.
0:12.5	So congrats for not skipping this one.
0:15.2	You did it.
0:16.2	If it's in auto play and you're like, NOOOOO, do play the Scorpion one.
0:20.6	It's too late bitch.
0:21.6	It's playing.
0:22.6	You're in this now.
0:23.6	Don't press stop.
0:24.6	Don't.
0:25.6	This one is amazing.
0:26.6	There are facts in this episode.
0:28.4	You will drop in conversation and it will make you one fucking forgettable.
0:31.6	Okay, first really quick, thank you patrons for making the show possible via patreon.com
0:36.6	slash Oligies.
0:37.9	For as little as a dollar a month, you can submit questions toologists and buckle the hell
0:42.1	up because I'm about to record like 10 episodes in the next few weeks and there are so many
0:46.3	questions you can submit.
0:47.6	So hop on board.
0:48.6	Thank you to everyone in Oligies merch available at alleyward.com and for tagging Oligies
0:54.8	merch so I can repost it on Mondays.
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