Probably Science

Comedian Tiffany Stevenson ( @tiffstevenson ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about loads of Australian spiders and how to catch them , more drop bear nonsense , Vesuvius turning brains to glass , alcoholic spines, eating too many Australian cakes , Dr. Heimlich and cuttlefish VR .

Alice Fraser ( @aliterative , Tea With Alice , The Last Post ) sits in as guest co-host for this chat with Comedy Store Players veteran and Whose Line Is It Anyway cast member Richard Vranch ( @richardvranch ), who more importantly for us is Dr. Richard Vranch, former physicist, for talk about the early days of UK comedy, and his experiments with silicon chips and radiation.

While on the road, Matt talks to Dr. Damian King about his work as the head of Neutral Beam Injection for the JET (Joint European Torus) at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy and why heating things to 30 million degrees isn't nearly enough. This episode is brought to you by  The Great Courses Plus , offering Probably Science listeners three months of unlimited access for only $30 by visiting TheG...

Comedians Kate Kennedy ( @TheOGKennedy ) and TJ Chambers ( @tjchambersLA ) join Andy to discuss physics for poets, Feynman memoirs , family trips and home movies ,  record-breaking geysers , blood waterfalls  and freezing water at its boiling point . This episode is brought to you by  The Great Courses Plus , offering Probably Science listeners a free trial with unlimited access to thousands of le...

Writer/comedians TJ Chambers ( @tjchambersLA ) and Jordan Morris ( @Jordan_Morris ) return to the podcast to wrap up the decade that was the 2010s, covering things along the way including penis fish , the cat that says "well, hi!" , the biggest scientific happenings of the decade, Karen Gillan's box office dominance, the book Orange World and the podcast Bubble .

Author of books, graphic novels and comics including DC's Batgirl Cecil Castellucci ( @misscecil ) joins Matt, Andy and her neuroscientist father Vincent to talk about her new graphic novel memoir Girl on Film , which intertwines the story of her life in the arts and schooling at Laguardia High School of the Performing Arts with sidebars on the neuroscience of memory and a look at Vincent's life's...

Comedian Louis Katz ( @louiskatz ) of the podcast Road Heads joins Andy and Matt to discuss robot deliveries , semen shocks (and overly detailed pictures ), honking dinosaurs , the Jurassic Park melodica cover , plants making noises , Mort Garson's music for plants , Brazil's museum that burned down, browncardigan.com , a robot space hotel and who's in space right now .

Comedian and game show-hosting veteran Bil Dwyer ( @BilDwyer ) returns to the podcast 7 1/2 years after his last appearance to talk about Dirty Rotten Cheater , more reasons to hate paper straws , the greatest prank call ever , BLEVEs , frozen dogs , shrinking birds , tattooed mummies , audiophile coral reefs and a possible fifth force of nature .

Matthew D. LaPlante ( @mdlaplante ), author of the new book Superlative: The Biology of Extremes , joins Matt and Andy to talk about all creatures great and small (and fast and slow and strong and old and deadly...) and look at the many surprising things to be learned from nature's outliers.

Comedian/writer/podcaster Chris Mancini ( @chrisjmancini ) of Comedy Film Nerds joins Andy and Matt to talk about the good Kickstarter for his graphic novel Rise of the Kung Fu Dragon Master (and a less-good one for this dumb wine thing ), what the deal with Pez is , toilet stickiness , Ohio religion laws , L'Hopital's rule , supernova blobs , pigeon bones , antibiotics resistance and why you may...

Comedian Noah Gardenswartz ( @noahgcomedy ) of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel joins Andy and Matt to discuss left-handed women's smell , cannibal ants , cg mustaches , an ebola vaccine , anti-vax Facebook ads , mouse deer and Mars air . This episode is brought to you by  The Great Courses Plus , offering Probably Science listeners a free trial with unlimited access to thousands of lectures by visiting...

Comedian and host of the radio show/podcast You're the Expert Chris Duffy ( @youretheexpert ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about rats driving cars , why measles is bad , the book Antisocial , fake news in Argentina, beavers on the moon , eagles racking up roaming charges , a thermal camera that spotted cancer , Google's quantum supremacy and the guy who coined the term , brewing beer in your stomac...

Artificial intelligence researcher and UC Berkeley Professor of Computer Science Dr. Stuart Russell joins Andy to talk about his new book Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control , which explores the concept of intelligence in humans and machines, what the benefits and drawbacks of creating superhuman intelligence are, and what AI researchers can do now to help usher in...

Comedian-turned-writer Daniel Dominguez joins Matt and Andy to talk about his new animated Netflix series Seis Manos , Nobel Prize announcements in physics , medicine and chemistry , Ursula K. Le Guin , people with Goodenough names  and implanting false memories in birds . This episode is brought to you by  The Great Courses Plus , offering Probably Science listeners a free month of unlimited acce...

Comedian Troy Walker ( @troywalkeresq ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss erector sets , owl pellets, scientists growing tooth enamel , aspen sunscreen , a Milky Way explosion , Dr. Magma , too many wallabies , university ripoffs and antibiotic resistance . This episode is brought to you by  The Great Courses Plus , offering Probably Science listeners a free month of unlimited access to thousands of...

Comedian Matt Monroe ( @heymonroe ) joins Andy and Matt to discuss retirement community shows, Sandler on Netflix, the Salton Sea , the toilet water scale , Terence Howard science , lizard womb babies , lady rabbit orgasms , Sarah Morgan's web series , a tooth bird fossil , Matt Monro and Born Free .

Comedian Nick Turner ( @NicksTurners ) returns to the show seven years after his last appearance to talk about his podcasts  Get Rich Nick  and Recently Added , walking dogs, very slow zombies , a herpes vaccine , fun math with 3s , a new blackest black , Instant Hotel, cooking with ostrich eggs , Instant Hotel, Fastest Car and Hyperdrive, spiders flying with electricity and a play with a very con...

PhD-having comedian Ria Lina  ( @rialina_ ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about bioinformatics, her research in viruses, specifically the herpes family of viruses, predicting this year's flu, the definition of life, the other kind of beach bodies, pathology, terrorism hypotheticals, herd immunity, viral ontology and Ria's ukulele song for Alabama . This episode is brought to you by  The Great Course...

Comedian Nick Vatterott ( @vatterott ) of the new podcast Get Rich Nick joins Andy and Matt to discuss trivia, trypophobia , obscenity trials , mouthwash vs. exercise , vape deaths , Stackenblocken , a skull discovery , Lucy and whether there is a gay gene .

Cartoonist/author/engineer Randall Munroe of the Hugo Award-winning webcomic xkcd joins Matt and Andy to talk about his new book  How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems , in which he gives novel, ridiculous and technically correct tips on doing everything from digging a hole to winning an election. You can catch Randall in person on his book tour running through September...

Comedians Chris Martin ( @ChrisMcomedy ) and Hanna Stanbridge ( @HannaStanbridge ) join Andy and Matt to talk about our Wired video , soap on a rope, some scientist listeners' corrections, burp-free cows and seaweed , July being the hottest month ever , how tongue rolling isn't fully genetic , vaccine-delivering Congo drones , asparagus pee, boney boners , Will Smith's penis, water-powered space c...

Actor/director Pollyanna McIntosh ( @PollyAMcIntosh ) of The Walking Dead, Lodge 49 and her directorial debut Darlin' joins Matt and Andy to discuss Dennis dentists, human-sized penguins , gay penguins with an egg , an ebola cure , good environmental news , bad environmental news  and  tails for old people . This episode is brought to you by  The Great Courses Plus , offering Probably Science list...

Comedian Joyelle Johnson ( @joyellenicole ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about doctor rules, chlamydia vaccines ,  AI that can spot bad food , our surprisingly old moon and an excellent Fidel Castro conspiracy theory .

Comedian Jordan Doll ( @razorlou ) joins Andy and Matt to discuss old UK comedy, field archaeology, being a shovel bum, King Arthur's various swords, massive parrots , the periodic table of Jeopardy! , tardigrades on the moon , disinfecting Mars, water-filtering wood , toxic Paris , Maya Angelou ads , problematic pics and The Mechanical Turk . This episode is brought to you by  The Great Courses P...

Comedian KT Tatara ( @kttatara ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about a CRISPR sickle cell cure , a mysterious radiation leak linked to Russia , Mr. Wizard , Bob Lazar and UFOs and bees' sense of the electric fields of flowers . This episode is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus , offering Probably Science listeners a free month of unlimited access to thousands of lectures by visiting TheGreatC...