Dan Beeston & Greg Wah

Smart Enough to Know Better

Science EN ↓ 320 episodes

Smart Enough to Know Better is a podcast of science, comedy and ignorance. Twice a month two professional performers chat about science stuff that excites them in a fun and accessible manner.

Author

Dan Beeston & Greg Wah

Category

Science

Podcast website

www.smartenough.org

Latest episode

Jan 5, 2026

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Episodes

230 - Smart Enough to Have Known Better 05.01.2026

This is the final episode of Smart Enough to Know Better. In it we discuss coffee bathroom connection, DnD beholders, bread and beer and the human penis. Then we wrap...

229.5 - Wah Wonders Why - Everything You Ever Wanted 17.12.2025

Spencer Howson returns to the podcast after 15 years to interview Dan about his book.

229 - Smart Enough to Slow Horses 07.12.2025

A car accident, The god helmet, diving bells, make your own centaur.

228 - Smart Enough to Water Bodies 14.11.2025

Interview with Luke Cripps about water cremation.

227 - Smart Enough to Stretch Legs 25.09.2025

Braces, Measuring the Elongated Man, Forgetting stuff, Drinking cold water and Lead makeup

226 - Smart Enough to be Dead Wright 30.08.2025

We interview Dr Alison Wright about anatomy science and the prospect of donating our body to science.

225 - Smart Enough to Plot Holes 10.08.2025

Corpses, Opaque Water, Lazy Brains, Knives, Getting old.

224 - Smart Enough to Fire Crackers 13.07.2025

Raising a house, EMDR Therapy for PTSD, Pimp my time Gold Coast. Experimenting on Pyro

223 - Smart Enough to Bear the Cold 05.06.2025

De-orbiting satellites, Car keys, renaming Antarctica, Bad AI doctors, Bull sharks.

222 - Smart Enough to Get Inta' Webs 07.05.2025

Dan's new book and why it feels nice to read. Origins of eleven and twelve. Experimenting on Spiderman. Dark photons and the double slit experiment.

221 - Smart Enough to Wail Songs 31.03.2025

Greg went to Norway, Covid news, What astronomers think of metal, Language mapping.

220 - Smart Enough to Peter Out 15.02.2025

Peter Quinn returns to tell us about Dark Energy

219 - Smart Enough to Pool Cleaners 04.02.2025

An interviewwith Jon Darbro from the Mosquito Control Association of Australia

218 - Smart Enough to Memory Holes 15.01.2025

Solar Probe, Beach Waves, UFOs, Extrinsic memory, Sand Worms, and crossed eyes.

217 - Smart Enough to Eyre Grievances 13.12.2024

Assassin Bugs, Visual Centre, Catchment Areas, AI doctors and more dragons

216 - Smart Enough to Iron Men 03.11.2024

Pigeon heads, The father of democracy, Dietary Iron, Voting preferences and eating Jewish food..

215 - Smart Enough to Fire Bugs 29.09.2024

New Moon, Warm blood, Phoenix and Decaf Coffee.

214 - Smart Enough to Space Time 07.09.2024

Space and time, Cooking pasta, Cheese making and Questions for Greg.

213 - Smart Enough to Foam Home 31.07.2024

Styrofoam, Ice, Feel good songs, and Silicone rubber.

212 - Smart Enough to Babble On 02.07.2024

Empathy vs Sympathy, Car Heaters, Onions, Tower of Babel, Avatar the last Air Bender, Definitive Kelvin(s)

211 - Smart Enough to Have Read Heads 31.05.2024

Carbon Dioxide while you sleep, Dyson Spheres, Redheads don't feel pain, Parasocial relationships, Blood clotting with electricity.

210 - Smart Enough to Goose Eggs 02.05.2024

Injection site, Hugs, Building on the moon, Golden Eggs

209 - Smart Enough to Ground Control 30.03.2024

Easter Dates, The Nasal Cycle, Fainting, Anthotypes, Space Cadavers and Long Covid's name.

208 - Smart Enough to Duck Bills 27.02.2024

Terraforming Mars, Robot Vacuum, Coal ash, Leap years and leap seconds, Cryptozoo: Scrooge McDuck

207 - Smart Enough to Egg Whites 28.01.2024

Eggs, Red Belly Black Snake, predictions of the future from the past, fireworks in space.

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