SIO438: That's Absurd Please Elaborate
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
I'm joined by Trace and Julian from the podcast, That's Absurd Please Elaborate! It's an incredibly fun and cool science show where they take questions that might seem weird or crazy but answer them using science! They're here to talk science communication, and what some of their favorite questions they've answered have been. Could vampires evolve through natural processes? Could x-rays cook soup? Could we teach aliens left and right?
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| 0:00.0 | And the Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only this is episode 438. I'm your |
| 0:20.4 | host Thomas Smith and do I have a fun one for you today? We're going to be speaking |
| 0:24.8 | with Trace and Julian from That's Absurd, Please Elaborate. It's an incredibly cool show that takes |
| 0:31.5 | possibly strange questions and figures out the science behind them. |
| 0:35.8 | It's really cool. They're going to tell us more about it, but I wanted to have them on to chat, |
| 0:39.4 | not just because they're fun, they're funny, they're science people, all that, but also because I think science |
| 0:45.2 | communication is so critical right now. I mean we saw what the pandemic did. |
| 0:48.8 | We saw the literal life toll of science denialism and misinformation and I think it's more important than ever to try to talk |
| 0:58.0 | about science and communicate science in a way that increases confidence in it that lets people in that's accessible all that stuff it's a fun |
| 1:05.3 | conversation it's a really great time so looking forward to that as usual please go to |
| 1:10.2 | patreon dot com slash serious pod to support the show it is very important the show only continues on with the generous support of patrons like maybe you listening and most importantly you don't have to hear the ads. |
| 1:23.4 | But also there's bonus stuff, there's seriously awful movies. |
| 1:26.2 | There's that monthly hangout that we're now going to do at the beginning of every month |
| 1:29.6 | because it was very silly of us to add to our end-of-month workload with that. |
| 1:35.0 | That is so much fun. I can't wait to do that one when I'm not so stressed out. |
| 1:39.0 | That group has grown every month and it's super fun. |
| 1:42.0 | All good reasons to check out Patreon.com |
| 1:45.0 | slash serious pod. Thanks so much to the patrons who support the show |
| 1:48.0 | and now it's time to get to the interview right after this break. |
| 1:51.0 | Trace and Julian, welcome to the the show so nice to have you. |
| 1:54.0 | Hey thanks good to be here. |
| 1:56.0 | Trace and I met now gosh when the hell was that I don't have any sense of time. |
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