Smologies #33: SCORPIONS with Lauren Esposito

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Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.9 • 23.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Scorpions: the victims of undue shade. 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 (SPOILER: YES), what good mothers they are, and how big they used to be millions of years ago. Get this one in your ears right away.

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0:00.0	Oh, hey, it's a lady in front of you in the check out with 26 items.
0:04.1	Who doesn't realize she's in the express lane?
0:06.3	It is fully oblivious to your glares, alley ward.
0:09.4	So hi, this is an episode of Smologies, which we've made classroom safe so you can listen with your
0:15.2	little ones.
0:16.2	So the full episodes are obviously a little more spicier, more in detail, but Smologies are safe to listen to around anyone so I hope you enjoy this
0:25.4	if you're looking for the full length version it's linked in the show notes
0:28.6	okay scorpiology yes this is a real ology it's a subset of arachnology, arachnids.
0:35.0	And Scorpion comes from the Greek. Are you ready for this?
0:39.0	For Scorpion.
0:41.0	Okay, that is not something that made me say, oh my God.
0:44.0	All right, we cover myths about scorpions, what big pinchers mean, some movie magic.
0:49.3	How lethal are these critters?
0:51.3	glow in the dark magic and also where is their but
0:54.4	so bust out your black light keep your ears on alert for STEM advocate science
0:58.9	communicator researcher expedition leader and curator at the California Academy of Sciences,
1:05.0	Scorpiologist, Dr. Lauren Esposito. Spolies.
1:13.0	Gies.
1:15.0	Gies.
1:17.0	Gologies. Okay, so you are, I looked this up. You're an arachnologist.
1:26.0	You're an arachnologist, but I saw that there is a subset that is scorpiology there is
1:35.0	Scorpioology. So I'm a school I'm technically speaking a scorpiologist. No at what point when you were studying them did you say
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