Probably Science

Comedians and co-hosts of the Jammerz podcast Wendi Starling ( @wendistarling ) and Megan Rice ( @_meganrice_ ) join Matt and Andy to discuss robot microwaves, cat penises, the GATE program, Japanese asteroid rovers , mosquitos , BEES , deadliest animals , panda dating , weed making people shower and puke , sandalwood-induced hair growth and ironic purchases .

Fresh on the heels of the release of his two new Netflix specials , comedian Daniel Sloss ( @Daniel_Sloss ) returns to the show, joined by ProbSci regular and Twinsies co-host TJ Chambers ( @tjchambersLA ), to talk with Matt and Andy about Menudo , daddy taxonomy, druggy octopodes , fake early memories , Spicey and The Juice , overrated probiotics , alien conspiracy theories , and a tire reef that...

Comedian and host of the Here We Are  science podcast  Shane Mauss  ( @shanecomedy ) returns to Probably Science to talk with Andy and Matt about psychedelics, his upcoming Stand-Up Science tour and being institutionalized when he nearly lost his mind. If you or a loved one are in distress, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 's number is 1-800-273-8255.

Comedians Whitney Chitwood ( @WhitneyChitwood ) and Carly Ballerini ( @ballca ) join Matt and Andy to talk about Nazi boots, the ghost of Cole Porter, Carly's very interesting transplant, goats and happy people , this year's Ig Nobel Prize winners , billionaires in space , a Soyuz hole , lucid dreams through meds ( and the old-fashioned way ), have you ever had a dream like this? , man's egg misha...

In addition to being a programmer and computational linguist, Ryan North ( @ryanqnorth ) is the writer behind Dinosaur Comics , Unbeatable Squirrel Girl , the  Adventure Time comic book series , and Romeo and/or Juliet , and he joins Andy and Matt to discuss his new book How To Invent Everything , a survival guide for stranded time travelers who need to figure out where they've landed in time, and...

Dipak Srinivasan of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory makes his third Probably Science appearance to give the inside scoop on a number of current and upcoming projects and missions including, but not limited to, the Parker Solar Probe , New Horizons checking out Ultima Thule , the Space Launch System , NASA's STEREO  and the Dragonfly Titan rotorcraft lander .

Creator of the hit podcast Bubble Jordan Morris ( @Jordan_Morris ) returns to the show to talk with Andy and Matt about bad accents, why the earliest galaxies are local , Andy's tail, the big toe evolving last , The Lottery , the recipe for mummies revealed , The Core , dolphin hybrids , Patton Oswalt and David Byrne on the Wholphin DVD and the Bermuda Triangle mystery possibly being solved .

Comedian and co-host of the Lady to Lady podcast Brandie Posey ( @Brandazzle ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about her aphantasia, science museums, ska daddies , lazy homo erectus , phone-induced blindness , cheating bots , There's Waldo , the Arabian sand boa , yeast radiation alarms , an aphantasia support group on Facebook , a software engineer's aphantasia experience , and Brandie's album , podc...

Thomas Patterson ( @thomasdynamic ), music supervisor for the new AMC series Lodge 49 ( @Lodge49 ), joins Andy and Matt to discuss the heat , will.i.am's Future, Lodge 49 and its soundtrack , Andy's initiation into the Fraternal Order of Eagles,  why baby talk is good , plastic causing a greenhouse nightmare , how sleep clears the brain of toxins , a supercomputer modeling one second of brain func...

Comedians Sarah Albritton  ( @SarahAlbritton ) and Josh Cheney ( @joshcheeeneee ) join Matt and Andy to discuss Sleeping With Sarah , narcolepsy, narcoleptic dogs , Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry , the 100 prisoners problem , massive sloth tunnels , weight on various planets , drinking Mars and trippy cicadas .

Comedian Lisa Curry ( @lisa_curry ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss Olympiads, the other Lisa Curry, reservoir shade balls , Bruce Lee as Kato , secret snakes , skiffs , car vibrations , prison experiment problems and old bread .

Comedian, TV host and author of the upcoming memoir My Life as a Goddess Guy Branum ( @guybranum ) returns to the podcast to talk with Andy and Matt about shipping stories, his knowledge of international law, legal murders in Yellowstone , how dingos changed shrubs , shark pathogens , Nanaimo bars , dogs in fMRIs , Matt in an fMRI ,  19th Century female mathematicians , senior wranglers and Britis...

The gang's all back together again to celebrate 300 episodes of Probably Science while discussing barely any science at all, instead reminiscing about the last six years, getting nostalgic for Country Summer and trying to figure out which actors have achieved the coveted SPATS (piloting a spacecraft, plane, automobile, train and sea ship on film).

Dean Burnett  ( @garwboy ) is a neuroscientist, comedian, blogger and author of the new book  Happy Brain: Where Happiness Comes From, and Why , and he Skyped in with Matt and Andy to talk about the book, delving into the complex relationship that happiness and human brains have with work, love, fame, home, humor, aging and much more.

Comedian, writer and host of The Cracked Podcast Alex Schmidt ( @alexschmidty ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about 3D printing, Gategate, phone facts, the English Larval Progression , Andy and Matt's recent Cracked appearance ,  eels on coke , black holes eating stars , cane toad sausages and lonely radiation bacteria.

Comedian Mitch Burrow ( @MitchBurrow ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about boot camp morning alarms, blueprint-building and 3D thought, deaf schizophrenia , Moshe Kasher's book , exploding head syndrome , cold water calorics test update , the unluckiest guy in Pompeii , why Guatemala's volcano is more dangerous than Hawaii's , all life on Earth by mass (and what we did to destroy it) , The Cove docu...

Astrophysicist and professor at University of Rochester Adam Frank ( @AdamFrank4 ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about his new book Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth , a look at the history of scientific discoveries on planetary environments and the prospect of alien life, what the very high likelihood that extraterrestrial civilizations have existed in our universe can teac...

Comedians and hosts of the upcoming Good Job You Failed podcast Vana Dabney  ( @vanawrite ) and Deborah Etta Robinson ( @deborah_etta ) join Andy and Matt to discuss human echolocation, marsupials fucking themselves to death , death by fart smell, nerve regeneration (or lack thereof), the longest paths on Earth , non-detectable neutrinos , Deborah and Vana's podcast and bodybuilding goals. Watch M...

Comedian and writer Jesse Joyce ( @jessejoyce ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about taxidermy, muskoxen , takins , red panda poop glitter , Qinling pandas, Gavin Webster's pandas , Bitcoin's energy usage , Jesse's dislike of live music, pouring warm and cold water in your ears , bad company names, patent trolls, discovering animals, Snoop's pinecone and the mysterious return of ozone .

Comedian Robyn Morrison ( @RobynSomething ) joins Andy and Matt to discuss concert height etiquette, the best sciences on drugs, more aphantasia, snail memory , science trivia questions , sitcom tropes, Korean nukes , thermal tasters , hippo shit and drowning wildebeest .

Neuroscientist/comedian Ori Amir ( @OriAmir ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about putting Matt in an fMRI, how your brain constructs jokes, prosopagnosia and aphantasia, politics and the brain, what computers find easy and hard , AI and game-solving , and more about Uber's bad driving . Plus, fill out this survey and we might go on a cruise together !

Comedian Brett Erickson ( @iBrettmypants ) joins Matt and Andy on location at the Jim Jefferies Show offices to talk about meeting Slayer's guitarist Kerry King , Oliver Sacks' book An Anthropologist on Mars, Temple Grandin and her hug machine ,  aphantasia , penis transplant updates, New York water updates, DNA findings leading to the Golden State Killer , caterpillar danger , Globetrotters facts...

Comedian/actor/writer Emily Fleming ( @FlemilyEming ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss bad AI, gastro doctoring, constidar, Andy's phone getting stolen mid-show, the smell of Uranus , New York water, penis transplants , David Reimer , ravens ruining science , why privacy on the internet isn't privacy and kids bouncing back from bouncing .

Comedian/neuroscientist Dr. Jono Zalay ( @JonoZalay ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss coke rats, accidental rat ejaculation, ibogaine for opiates , ketamine for depression , rodent cocktail, animal popularity , a daring baboon escape , pronouncing science words, endangered charismatic animals, chili head , the Scoville scale and Jono's licenses .

Comedian and podcaster David Smalley ( @davidcsmalley ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about bullying bullies, different names, Texan science, why meth is bad , paints for self-driving cars , herpes, 3D printing with space poop ,  what we should have printed , and women who lost their hair after eating bitter squash .