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Science Vs

When Your Eyes See Lies

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

Education, Science, Health & Fitness

4.412.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

A dead man with a bitten penis and perplexing DNA, a terrifying syndrome where everything around you appears in miniature, and the big lie we all believe about lemmings: Wendy and Joel tell three science stories about times when things were not what they seemed, recorded live at the Beaker Street Festival in Tasmania.  Find our transcript here: https://bit.ly/ScienceVsLIVE  Chapters:  (00:00) Welcome to Science Vs LIVE! (02:08) The Case of the Missing Penis (17:55) Alice In Wonderland Syndrome (31:35) The Big Lemming Lie This episode has been produced by Wendy Zukerman, Joel Werner and Austin Mitchell, with help from Rose Rimler, Michelle Dang, and Nicholas DelRose. Our original version of lemmings was helped into the world by Kaitlyn Sawrey, Ben Kuebrich, Heather Rogers, and Shruti Ravindran.  Edited by Blythe Terrell and Annie-Rose Strasser. Fact Checking by Carmen Drahl. Mix and Sound Design by Bobby Lord and Bumi Hidaka. Scoring by Bobby Lord, Peter Leonard, Bumi Hidaka, and Emma Munger. Thanks to all of the researchers we spoke to including… Dr. Malte Andersson, Dr. Anders Angerbjörn, Dr. Rolf Anker Ims, Dr. Charles J. Krebs, and others. As well as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for the use of Cruel Camera. And special thanks to Barbara and Paul Werner, Tegan Taylor, Joseph Lavelle Wilson and the Zukerman family. Science Vs is a Spotify Studios Original. Listen for free on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us and tap the bell for episode notifications.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

So please make sure to you very loudly for Wendy Zuckerman and Joel Werner.

0:08.0

Hi Wendy here. So over the past few months supervising producer Joel Werner and I have

0:19.2

been traveling around Australia performing an episode of Science Versus live in front of real life people if you

0:27.3

weren't sure what a live show is.

0:30.0

So just a few weeks ago we were at South by Southwest Sydney, which is the first time that the

0:34.4

South by Southwest Festival has been held outside of Austin, Texas.

0:39.1

And a few months before that, we braved the chilly Tasmanian winter to perform the show at the Beaker Street Festival.

0:46.0

And that's what we're going to play for you today.

0:49.6

Our show is called When Your Eyes See lies and it is entirely live so what you're about to

0:56.7

hear all of the voice clips and the music you know the scoring we cued it live, so it's not entirely perfect.

1:04.8

There were more than 100 samples,

1:06.8

and we also pointed a couple of mics at the audience too.

1:10.5

Also, we might do a little shimmying, you know, if a joke doesn't land, we might make it land.

1:17.0

So, we might just get you guys laughing now? Joel do you have maybe a joke to sort of get them laughing a

1:28.0

little more? So I've only ever made up one joke in my life I'm pretty proud of

1:32.3

it but it's uh when the laser goes to

1:35.4

church where does it sit in the pew pew's Very good. I'm a dad.

1:44.0

I'm a dad. Okay, we have got it. This is great. We're gonna have fun. Let's jump in. Science

2:01.6

versus live at the Biggest Street Festival in Hobart, Tasmania, starts now.

2:07.6

Quote, an 88-year-old man was found dead at his home with a genital wound and part of his

2:20.0

penis missing. You got that?

2:27.0

88 year old man, dead, wound on his willy, part of the penis, missing.

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