The Mad Scientist Podcast

Want to hear some hilarious scientific stories, salacious details about your favorite physicist, and read about one of the most well known urology seminars ever? Then take a listen to this episode as Chris is joined by Tawny and George Platis of The Dirty Bits Podcast! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dirty-bits/id1231890102?mt=2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoice...

This episode we are joined by the Host of Pleasing Terrors, one of the best podcasts around, to talk about the connection between Ghosts and Water, why Mike spent an evening locked in a haunted jail, Marie's fight or flight response, and what kind of nerd Chris was in high school. Come listen to us banter! http://darkmyths.org/portfolio/pleasing-terrors/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...

Is High Fructose bad for you? What the hell is a fructose? How do we make it? And is it making us fat and cancerous? Find out on this weeks episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After all that turkey and stuffing, lets settle around the old podcast playing device and learn about Nanotechnology with Chris and TJ from Pints and Puzzles! What is a nanometer? What kind of advances can we expect with nanotechnology in medicine, energy, and pollution control? What the heck did Chris get his PhD in anyways? Come find out on this special Thanksgiving Episode! Learn more about you...

The Prisoner is one of the most important science fiction shows of all time, and in this Roundtable we talk all about the show, its importance to science fiction, and its philosophical overtones. We also give a shoutout to the Lets Not Meet podcast: https://www.letsnotmeetpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

http://www.blurryphotos.org/ This episode we are joined by Flora from Blurry Photos, one of our favorite podcasts, to talk about our greatest fears! And containing music by Amazing Transparent Man! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Contributing Podcasts: Creepy Fairy Tales for Unwanted Children The Murder Road Trip Podcast Evil Podcast The Trail Went Cold Encrypted Podcast 36 Times Moms & Murder True Crime Island Cold Case Notes There Might Be Cupcakes Bless This Mess The Mad Scientist Podcast The Minds Of Madness Music Credits: Kevin McLeod - Nightmare Machine Kevin McLeod - Classic Horror 1 Kevin McLeod - Intrepid Kevin Mc...

Why did little Chris Cogswell smell like shaving cream on Halloween? Should you open up your kids candy to check for razor blades? What are our host's favorite Halloween memories? Check out in this spooky episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we talk to Dr. Lucas Landherr, aka Dante Shepherd from Surviving the World http://survivingtheworld.net/Faculty.html We discuss teaching science and engineering through unconventional means, getting involved as a frustrated grad student in the arts, and a bunch of other stuff on this weeks episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris and TJ sit down for another bonus episode, talking about things you shouldn't google at work while working on a podcast, alien abductions, and their latest episodes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week is the final chapter in the Hill Abduction story. Just what happened to the Hill's that night? What does science make of the physical evidence? Could hypnosis induce false memories? Find out on this weeks episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why do we hallucinate when we are running on little to no sleep? Can the government control the weather? How about taking in a little teaser for our series on Dyatlov? That and more on this weeks episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we discuss the very first abduction case, that of Betty and Barney Hill. The hill couple claimed under hypnosis to have been abducted by aliens from Zeta Reticuli, however a lot of what the public knows about the case has been distorted over time. Find out the real story on this weeks episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What happened to our intrepid Lowes this week? Does yelling at something while hunting it ever make it easier to catch? Will drumming at aliens with glow sticks make them appear, or just keep humans away? Can a Boat be this seasons hottest new character? Find out on this weeks episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What has made the Vampire such a consistent part of our monster lore throughout the centuries? What kind of explanations are there for the physical evidence of corpses rising from the dead to suck blood, like blood on the teeth or still present in the internal organs after burial? Is Vlad the Impaler really the best historical vampire, or is there someone else to take his cape and fangs? Find out...

Do you believe in the power of positive thinking? How about the law of attraction? The laws of thermodynamics? Just what the hell is the deal with Star Mars, Marie? Find out in this weeks roundtable! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How do we study mental health in the world of biology? How do we treat these things now, and what are the limitations of our current methods? Find out in this weeks episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The solar eclipse is here! We talk to one of the members of IGOR (the Important Group of Researchers) Justin Ramberger about graduate school, the eclipse, and aliens! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just what is Rob Lowe up to in a haunted castle? Are blinking lights a good indication of paranormal activity? Are there community college courses in Shamanism? Find out in this week's special episode with Sam Fredrickson of the Not Alone Podcast and Rob Kristoffersen of the upcoming Our Strange Skies podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Greetings comrades! This is definitely Chris and not Kristaps here, telling you to please listen to this episode on how the glorious Soviet Space Fleet crushed our enemies to conquer the future. Also I am somehow typing this from the future. Over and out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode the Mad Scientist Podcast is joined by one of our favorite podcasts and fellow Dark Myth members Rumor Flies! We take on forensic myths including lie detector tests, blood splatter analysis, DNA analysis, and forensic psychology in this super long and super special episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode Chris sits down with one of the hosts of the excellent "Is This Adulting?" Podcast, Steven Pappas, to talk about mental health myths and stigma from a personal perspective. Part 1 of the multi part series on mental health myths and pseudoscience! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

GIANT SQUID AGAIN! This time featuring Marie! And announcing the winners of the Be a Mad Scientist Contest Round 1! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

RELEASE THE KRAKEN! Or at least release some interesting science and history about the Kraken! Where did this legend come from, how do our stories about giant squid measure up to real specimen, and what the heck is a colossal squid? Find out on this weeks episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you ever wondered why we seem to love cannibals when their on TV? How did historical cases of cannibalism happen, and what are some common themes found in this gruesome favorite of Halloween stories? Find out on this weeks Roundtable! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices