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Chad and Mike welcome Stephen Frost onto the podcast to discuss the evolutionary history of primates.
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Imagine studying one problem for forty years until finally the scientific community accepts your research. Mike and Chad discuss the work of Raymond Davis, Jr. who measured the number of neutrinos emitted by the sun. His numbers did not agree with theory and it took decades to prove that new physics was involved.
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Chad and Mike delve into disease and vaccinations and consider the role of B cells. When are new B cells produced and when do older ones ramp up production of antibodies?
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Mike and Chad talk about the differences between AC and DC power. We then delve into the history of electrifying the world, when advocates for AC (Tesla, Westinghouse) beat out arguments for DC (Edison). It is a crazy story.
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How do Homing Pigeons find their way? It turns out researchers have done many experiments to confuse them! We also have a tie in to Game of Thrones, so be sure to tune in.
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We've been busy watching the Olympics, which got us thinking about GOLD!! So while we finish our efforts for Season 8, we are replaying this episode about where gold comes from.
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Mike and Chad are gearing up for Season 8 and have a lot of ideas for upcoming episodes. In the meantime, we were enjoying hummingbirds flying around and thought it would be fun to revisit an episode from 2021 about these little guys that migrate surprisingly far distances. Enjoy.
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Enjoy this encore episode in which our guest Janet Peterson discusses how much water we should be drinking.
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This is our second annual Crisspies award show, celebrating the Best Science in Science Fiction.
The awards this year go to the best depiction of the Science behind pandemics (too soon?). Which movie will win this year?
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Chad and Mike invite Adam Dolezal to discuss the plight of bees and how they are facing new struggles with parasites, pathogens, pesticides, and poor nutrition.
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You may have been wondering about the aurora that have been visible in the last few weeks. Mike tells Chad about sunspots and how these lead to the cool events in our atmosphere.
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Mike and Chad take a tour through magnetism and explain how magnets are used in everyday life.
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Chad and Mike talk about plant formations called Galls in which an external object (insect, bacteria, etc) cause the plant to make small circular scars on its leaves.
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Chad and Mike are celebrating 200 episodes of crisscrossing Science! Join us as we look back on the past and remember our favorite episodes.
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Mike and Chad answer a listener's question about why spin affects the flight of baseballs.
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Chad tells Mike all about termites, the Russian nesting dolls of the insect world. Termites can't actually digest wood all by themselves and so utilize trichonympha to help them digest. Meanwhile, trichonympha themselves utilize smaller bacteria to help them digest wood.
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Mike and Chad answer all your questions about the total solar eclipse happening on April 8, 2024.
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Chad tells Mike about the new vaccine to prevent malaria. This has been decades in the making and Chad explains why this was such a difficult vaccine to create.
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We often think of astronomical events as ephemeral; however, today we are talking about three evanescent events that are making astronomers very excited. Pulsars, gamma ray bursts, and fast radio bursts are all at the forefront of science. So listen and learn more.
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This summer, two different broods of cicadas will be coming of the ground to breed. One brood only mates every 13 years, the other every 17 years. And both cycles happen to match in 2024. So, we are replaying an episode from the last time a large brood of cicadas came up.
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