Metaphorically Heavy Fog Juice | Pod 35
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Metaphorically Heavy Fog Juice | Pod 35

Have you ever felt someone’s gaze on you? This episode Julian explores why we seem to sense when eyes are on us. Meanwhile Trace gets lost in a fog so thick he has to drink his way out.

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Could We Colonize a Gas Giant? What if we were Vampires?
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Could We Colonize a Gas Giant? What if we were Vampires?

In this absolutely absurd episode, Dr Simon Clark ponders if human's could colonize an atmosphere like Jupiter's -- Star Wars Cloud City is on trial. Plus, since we’re talking about gas giants — Julian — digs into the evolutionary experiment that could give rise to a vampire. But first, Trace leads us off by learning about the uneven distribution of kitty cat toe beans!

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030: A Computer Made of Crabs?
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030: A Computer Made of Crabs?

Did you know scientists turned a swarm of crabs into a computer? Julian explores if it can play an old video game. Plus, special guest Dr. Deboki Chakravarti feels out animal pregnancy, and Trace learns that Ben Franklin wrote a eulogy for a pet squirrel.

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028:  It’s a Fart Rocket Breakthrough! Time to Hyper-Sleep to Jupiter
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028: It’s a Fart Rocket Breakthrough! Time to Hyper-Sleep to Jupiter

This week Julian explores the rocket science of farts. That’s a sentence that had likely never been written until this moment. Trace talks about the science of stasis, a.k.a hyper-sleep, a.k.a. cryo-freeze. As a bonus, we all get to learn the predictive powers of the 1993 classic film “Demolition Man.”

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026: Eww… Eww!!  Potatoes?
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026: Eww… Eww!! Potatoes?

In this revolting episode, our guest Dr Sam Jones asks Julian to never see a man about a horse again, Sam weeds out the filth in the animal kingdom, and Trace gives us a palate cleanser of starchy, potatoey goodness.

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025: The BONKERS Reason Ice Isn't Slippery
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025: The BONKERS Reason Ice Isn't Slippery

This time on T.A.P.E. — Matt Krol digs into cinema history to answer a deathly serious question, and Trace is out cold answering a question mulled over by scientists for centuries.

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024: Ahem, No. X-Rays Will NOT Cook Soup
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024: Ahem, No. X-Rays Will NOT Cook Soup

This week Julian wonders if you can really cook your jumblies with microwaves and 5G, and Trace dives into linguistics and chemistry to learn if the ocean is actually a very broth-forward soup.

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022: Oh No. Did You Time Travel with a Chicken?!
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022: Oh No. Did You Time Travel with a Chicken?!

In this episode, Trace wonders if "Weird" Al Yankovic influenced a generation of people to say "my back teeth are floating," and Julian time travels to the Triassic with a cold (and maybe a chicken).

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020: A Big Pointless Episode
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020: A Big Pointless Episode

This episode special guest Ralph Crewe (Writer/Producer, Practical Engineering) gets exhausted trying to explain continuous breathing, Julian mulls over the least pointy thing (shout out to Pod 007) and Trace takes a Mayan Bak-tun to explain why the heck there are 60 minutes in an hour.

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019: Legume Impostors | Holiday Special
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019: Legume Impostors | Holiday Special

This episode Trace cracks the mystery of nuts, and Julian tickles your fancy comparing moose and buffalo … Or is it bison?? You’ll have to listen to find out!

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