Probably Science is a weekly comedy and science podcast which first aired on January 21, 2012. The show is co-hosted by Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen, and Jesse Case.[1] Former co-host and founding member Brooks Wheelan left the show in 2013 for personal reasons[2] and has since returned as a guest. In Brooks' absence, Case, previously a guest, was brought on as a co-host.
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| Genre | Comedy, science |
| Language | English |
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| Original release | January 21, 2012 |
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The podcast focuses on current scientific news. Occasionally it explores different facets of relevant media, including the host's comedy careers, as well as the large array of careers and hobbies held by the guests.[3][4]
A wide range of guest have appeared in their episodes, including astronaut Chris Hadfield,[5] astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson,[6] comedian Chris Hardwick,[7] Sean M. Carroll[8] (a research professor in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology), and two appearances from Doctor Who and Guardians of the Galaxy actress Karen Gillan.[9][10]
Episodes edit
| Ep# | Guests | Topics [11] | Airdate |
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| 1 | None | Turing test, Seals and kangaroos, & Did Columbus's arrival cool the Earth | 24 January 2012 |
| 2 | Nick Rutherford | Favorite dinosaurs, Predicting gang violence with math, & Fake Mars missions in Russian parking garages | 25 January 2012 |
| 3 | Mike Burns | iPhone anger, secret government aliens, & Spontaneously obese monkeys | 26 January 2012 |
| 4 | Barry Rothbart | Shooting nudist colony videos, World's lightest substance, & Extraterrestrial real estate | 1 February 2012 |
| 5 | None | Horror movie bird flu, Russian scientists disappear searching for prehistoric lake, & are the Japanese whaling addicts | 6 February 2012 |
| 6 | Johnny Pemberton | Subliminal science projects, Using monkeys to measure radiation, & Using monkeys to measure radiation | 9 February 2012 |
| 7 | Kyle Kinane | Sexy snakes, C. Everett Koop dissecting cats, & Human hypersleep | 13 February 2012 |
| 8 | April Richardson | Does booze makes you smarter, Should all scientists just work on cancer, & Swiss space janitors | 20 February 2012 |
| 9 | Brody Stevens | The government's “Avatar” ripoff, Resurrecting a 30,000-year-old plant, & Vegan dogs | 26 February 2012 |
| 10 | Jesse Case | Breakups, Asteroids ending the world in 28 years, & Solving our energy crisis with poop | 5 March 2012 |
| 11 | Howard Kremer | Jim Cameron's adventures under the sea, Solar Flares, & The Clap | 12 March 2012 |
| 12 | Auggie Smith | Guiding lightning with lasers, Babies are smarter than computers, & Isaac Newton's apocalyptic predictions | 18 March 2012 |
| 13 | Chris Franjola | Figuring out why shock therapy works, Why hasn't the Segway conquered the world, & Using lasers to see around corners | 26 March 2012 |
| 14 | Paul Jay | Armchair astronomy, Vibrating tattoos, & Growing new body parts | 2 April 2012 |
| 15 | Dave Holmes | Do antibiotics cause weight gain, Could bacteria cause OCD, & Dolphin gangs | 8 April 2012 |
| 16 | Alonzo Bodden | 600 mile-per-hour tape, The first use of fire, & Space elevators | 18 April 2012 |
| 17 | James Adomian | Skeletons in hot air balloons, Particles that are their own antiparticles, & Giant sharks | 23 April 2012 |
| 18 | Jackie Kashian | Stalactites vs. stalagmites, Birds with GPS neurons, & Are we scaring sharks away from their reefs | 30 April 2012 |
| 19 | Justin Ian Daniels | The Supermoon, Vibrating suits for Olympians, & Super-fast wi-fi with common laser pointers | 7 May 2012 |
| 20 | Blaine Capatch | The Yellowstone supervolcano, Revisiting the airborne version of bird flu, & Venus goes in front of the Sun | 14 May 2012 |
| 21 | Eddie Ifft | Global warming denial campaigns, Mormon-backed niceness initiatives, & Re-routing apocalypse asteroids with pebbles | 21 May 2012 (Live) |
| 22 | Duncan Trussell | Tarot card Rorschach tests, Lunar landing conspiracy theories, & Preparing to break the free-fall world record | 28 May 2012 |
| 23 | Jason Nash | The science of superheroes, Private spaceflight, & The eclipse | 4 June 2012 |
| 24 | Eliza Skinner | The Patriot missile test launches, Hands-on science museums, & Why can't you use your phone on a plane | 11 June 2012 |
| 25 | Tony Sam | Protecting the ocean surrounding Australia, Speech-learning robots, & Colonizing Mars | 18 June 2012 |
| 26 | Bil Dwyer | News | 25 June 2012 |
| 27 | Jordan Morris | The world's biggest crocodile, Male contraceptives, & Rock-scissors-paper robots | 2 July 2012 |
| 28 | Moshe Kasher | The proliferation of Genghis Khan DNA, Saving baby beluga whales, & Preventing hearing loss with AMPK proteins | 9 July 2012 |
| 29 | Nick Turner | Robots that walk like humans, Neurological wiring predicting chronic pain, Mayan apocalypse | 15 July 2012 |
| 30 | Steve Agee | The dark side of cornstarch, Non-Newtonian bullet-proof vests, & Building a jellyfish out of rat hearts | 23 July 2012 |
| 31 | Robert Buscemi | Measuring a river's meander, Is impersonating a beekeeper a crime, & What's an aquifer | 29 July 2012 |
| 32 | Guy Branum | Rural sociology, Wasting a law degree, & Calling out Guns, Germs and Steel | 6 August 2012 |
| 33 | Kira Soltanovich | Shift workers at risk for heart attacks, Auto-erotic self-asphyxiation, & Bodily changes brought on by pregnancy | 13 August 2012 |
| 34 | Julian McCullough | Denmark's penal system, "Green" cremation, & Endangered sharks | 20 August 2012 |
| 35 | Baron Vaughn | Ways to straighten teeth, Super-fertility causing miscarriage, & Bill Nye stands up to creationists | 27 August 2012 |
| 36 | Shane Mauss | Evolutionary psychology & The science refuting Todd Akin's mind-bogglingly stupid statement about rape and pregnancy | 3 September 2012 |
| 37 | Power Violence | Hurricane preparedness, Setting your house on fire, & Voyager I reaching the edge of the Solar System | 10 September 2012 |
| 38 | Mark Agee | King Tut's girlish figure, John Wayne Gacy's head injury, & evolutionary explanation of the placebo effect | 17 September 2012 |
| 39 | Andy Haynes | Vegetarianism, Dead baby pandas, & figuring out what a harvest moon is | 24 September 2012 |
| 40 | Hampton Yount | Formally lost episode from December 2011 | 1 October 2012 |
| 41 | Richard Bain | Insects with mechanical brains, Hiring a green exterminator, & Bees that make blue and green honey | 8 October 2012 |
| 42 | Emery Emery | The origin of Probably Science, Cheating yo-yos with mechanical clutches, & Trusting expertise | 14 October 2012 |
| 43 | Josh Cheney and Dax Jordan | Celery-based science fair projects, Felix Baumgartner's record-setting jump, & How long would it take for something to fall to the center of the Earth | 22 October 2012 |
| 44 | Chip Pope | Decoding the oldest-known writing system, The Wachowski siblings, & Hermit crab key parties | 29 October 2012 |
| 45 | Mike Siegel | Felix Baumgartner is anti-space exploration, Self-fixing concrete, & Red Bull Flugtag mishaps | 5 November 2012 |
| 46 | Taylor Williamson | Acid rain experiments, Math anxiety creates actual pain, & High school Republicanism | 12 November 2012 |
| 47 | TJ Miller | Growing your own balsa wood, Congressmen who don't believe in evolution, & A wandering planet | 19 November 2012 |
| 48 | Marianne Sierk | The OCD nature of religion, Insects with giant testicles, & The lack of women in science jobs depicted in TV and movies | 26 November 2012 |
| 49 | Tom Sibley | Robotic snakes, Vernor's Herzog, & Ice on Mercury | 3 December 2012 |
| 50 | Kyle Kinane | Peeing in the shower, The cotton gin, & Young Einstein | 10 December 2012 |
| 51 | Troy Conrad | Improvised debate, House/career dysmorphia, & Hot tub clothing regulations | 17 December 2012 |
| bonus episode | Jesse Case | World War II bunker dogs, hospice situations, & home videos from the 1980s | 31 December 2012 |
| PH 1 | Jesse Case | Probably History: Christmas | 11 January 2013 |
| 52 | Dan Telfer | the NASA mohawk guy, Making origami cranes as astronaut training, & Shoulder hair | 14 January 2013 |
| 53 | Wil Anderson | Climate change denial, Karl Kruszelnicki's study of belly button fluff, & Being laughed at vs. being laughed with | 21 January 2013 |
| 54 | Laura House | Chili competitions, Drinking and guns, & Shooting pesky mink | 30 January 2013 |
| 55 | Dr. Peter McGraw and Baron Vaughn | special episode devoted entirely to the science of why things are funny | 4 February 2013 |
| 56 | David Huntsberger | The importance of giant prime numbers, The loneliness of Google Street View team members, & The uselessness of Yelp reviews | 11 February 2013 |
| 57 | Michael James Nelson and Robert Buscemi | Fox News and their assessment of the value of space water, Drilling into the surface of Mars, & Space cats | 18 February 2013 |
| 58 | Jeff Klinger | Malfunctioning Segways, Expensive anatomical models, & Figuring out when man's anscestors developed a tolerance for booze | |
| PH 2 | Mark Agee | Probably History: life in first-century Rome | 28 February 2013 |
| 59 | Mike Schmidt | The cured AIDS baby, Visiting a spice farm, & Harry Potter vs. Twilight | 5 March 2013 |
| 60 | Glenn Wool and Lady Carol | Does bee venom kill HIV, Caffeine-addicted bees, & Mummies with heart conditions | 12 March 2013 |
| 61 | Chris Hardwick | Using iPhones to detect intestinal worms, A new way to keep livers alive for transplantation, & Hobo sapiens | 19 March 2013 |
| 62 | Matt Braunger | Comedians in therapy, Birds evolving shorter wings to escape cars, & Overfishing breeding smaller fish | 26 March 2013 |
| 63 | Aparna Nancherla | Magnet schools, Retrieving rockets from the ocean floor, & Unearthing plague pits | 2 April 2013 |
| 64 | Cameron Esposito and River Butcher | Why spittoons make a dinging noise, Daft Punk and Cyberdyne Systems, & Cockney rhyming slang | 9 April 2013 |
| 65 | The Sklar Brothers | The latest bird flu scare, Spending $100 million to lasso an asteroid, & Using kidney bean leaves to trap bedbugs | 16 April 2013 |
| 66 | Peter Serafinowicz and Gallagher | Live at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival. | 23 April 2013 |
| 67 | Karen Kilgariff and April Richardson | Quantum physics and Ramtha, Cheesy potatoes, & First aid book illustrations | 30 April 2013 |
| 68 | Celia Pacquola and TJ Chambers | Arizona State's party reputation, Nonsensical drinking age laws, & Mainlining oxygen | 7 May 2013 |
| 69 | John Roy | Daft Punk's new album, water slides and skydiving, & 480,000,000 needles in space | 14 May 2013 |
| 70 | Crystal Dilworth and Alexandra Lockwood | Dancers moonlighting as scientists, the myth of Tryptophan, & penguins getting knighted in Denmark | 22 May 2013 |
| PH 3 | Pat Reilly | Probably History: The Borgias | 28 May 2013 |
| 71 | Rory Scovel | The secret lives of parents, saving a baby with a 3D printer, & playing guitar while getting brain surgery | 4 June 2013 |
| 72 | Brooks Wheelan | A Probably Science ripoff, woolly mammoth blood, & light shows with microwaved grapes | 11 June 2013 |
| 73 | Janna Levin | Black holes orbiting in three-leaf clovers, the Large Hadron Collider: nothing to worry about, & Einstein's explanation of Mercury's odd orbit | 19 June 2013 |
| 74 | David Angelo | The effects of light and darkness on cabbage, curing cancer, & traveling to Mars via nuclear propulsion | 26 June 2013 |
| 75 | Dr. James Kakalios, Tommy Ryman, and Dan Schlissel | Live from Convergence Con: telescopic eyes, how to transport science on a boat, & superconductors | 6 July 2013 |
| 76 | Colleen Watson and Charlene Conley | Married guys have less AIDS, making igloos, & marrying buildings | 16 July 2013 |
| 77 | Virginia Jones and Auggie Smith | A blue planet that rains glass, controlling stem cells with magnets, & a new Neptune moon | 22 July 2013 |
| 78 | Dr. Sean Carroll | The fixed density of dark energy, we are the creamy tendrils in a universal cup of coffee, & the arrow of time | 28 July 2013 |
| 79 | Hank and Chris Thompson | Sibling rivalry, taxi drivers' enlarge hippocampi, & inheriting the chess team captain crown | 6 August 2013 |
| Summer Bonus Episode | Dr. Richard Flower, Dr. Anna Collu, and Jeff and Emily Mounts | "Keep your standards low and enjoy!" | 13 August 2013 |
| 80 | Nick Doody | No Subject | 1 September 2013 |
| 81 | Humphrey Ker and Bryan Cook | The hilarious Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction show, asylum movies, & the curse of having a posh accent | 10 September 2013 |
| 82 | Kathleen Ritterbush | Falling for the testicle-biting fish hoax, how fossils form, & thinking dinosaurs and humans coexisted | 17 September 2013 |
| 83 | David Epstein and Paul Morrissey | The genetics of wanting to train hard, the link between elite athletes and ADHD, & Major League hitters who can't touch a 60 mph softball | 24 September 2013 |
| 84 | Keith Malley and Chemda aka Keith and the Girl | Estranged parents, having an intern clean the DNA off of your keyboard, & the government shutdown | 2 October 2013 |
| 85 | Rhys Darby and Brandon Fibbs | Live from the LA PodFest: Space sex, harvesting Helium-3 from the Moon, and the intricacies of the Welsh language | 9 October 2013 |
| 86 | Karen Gillan | Growing up as a Scottish serf, criticizing the physics of the movie Gravity, and fruit bat fellatio | 16 October 2013 |
| 87 | Nate Craig | Flushing out brain toxins while you sleep, rapidly aging breast tissue, & a possible cure for baldness | 22 October 2013 |
| 88 | Brendon Burns | Whatever killed the non-avian dinosaurs wiped out a load of bees, Perthans, and finding bombs with dolphin-inspired radar | 29 October 2013 |
| 89 | Dr. Larry Price and Dr. Jamie Rollins | Gravity waves and what LIGO actually is, why we don't go straight through tables, & how to measure something that's smaller than the smallest thing you can think of | 5 November 2013 |
| 90 | Scotty Landes and Heather Thomson | Professional hugging, animals doing math, & the science of Captchas | 12 November 2013 |
| 91 | Samm Levine and Susan Burke | Hotel living, the perks of priesthood, & using levitating droplets of water to create nanoparticles | 19 November 2013 |
| 92 | Andi Osho | Dogs reacting to the directions of fellow dogs' tail wags, the speed of gravity waves, & the gray area of children's photos | 25 November 2013 |
| 93 | Jason John Whitehead | Birthright trips to Israel, Jesse's Typewriter collection, & goosing |
3 December 2013 |
| 94 | Daniel Sloss | Scottish pride, Everyone's fingers connect, & adolescent mice that drink alcohol because of peer pressure | 10 December 2013 |
| 95 | Dr. Ainissa Ramirez and Sarah Tiana | A new style of safer tackling, Waffle House waiters who are like quarterbacks, & the reasons for the Michigan/Ohio state rivalry | 17 December 2013 |
| 96 | Lee Billings and Dr. Bjoern Benneke | The Drake equation, Earth's recent trend toward radio silence, & energy-hungry alien civilizations creating Dyson spheres | 26 December 2013 |
| 97 | Emily Heller and Auggie Smith | Making belly button cheese, the polar vortex, & doing comedy for a glass company | 8 January 2014 |
| 98 | Dr. Peter McGraw and Caleb Bacon | Peter McGraw: Wanted dead or alive, the comedy terrorist, & humor in Auschwit | 14 January 2014 |
| 99 | Dwayne Perkins | The lone woman of San Nicolas Island, dying carnivores changing the courses of rivers, & composing a song based on auditory hallucinations | 21 January 2014 |
| 100 | Karen Gillan and Brooks Wheelan | The excommunication of Halley's Comet, dipping blood cells in acid to make stem cells, & non-hormonal, reversible, cheap male birth control | 31 January 2014 |
| 101 | Graham Elwood | Suing NASA for not looking hard enough into aliens, marijuana lowering suicide rates, & Bill Nye debating a creationist | 4 February 2014 |
| 102 | Professor Matthew Walker, Kurt Braunohler, and Daniel Van Kirk | Live from SF Sketchfest | 12 February 2014 |
| 103 | Wendy Wason | How John Wayne Gacy got caught, Matt's serial killer neighbor, & a computer-generated math proof that's bigger than all of Wikipedia | 19 February 2014 |
| 104 | Andrew Solmssen | The illusion of digital privacy, looking at clips of severe Russian accidents as a profession, & the discovery of a 4.4 billion-year-old crystal | 25 February 2014 |
| 105 | James Bachman and Danny Lobell | Having a Jewish-themed wedding, a recently unearthed 30,000-year-old megavirus, & a 3D-printed electronic glove for you heart | 4 March 2014 |
| 106 | Jimmy Shubert and Matt Davis | Rubbing strange lamps you find at the beach, baby tumors that have teeth, & another AIDS baby who's been cured | 10 March 2014 |
| 107 | Stefan Pop & Rylee Newton | HP Lovecraft movies, A more in-depth look at the drug Narcan, & The Netherlands' speed skating dominance | 18 March 2014 |
| 108 | Drs. Larry Price, Jamie Rollins & Janna Levin | The Big Bang, what Inflation means & what this BICEP2 experiment did | 27 March 2014 |
| 109 | Tara Flynn | Saving the government $400 million by changing fonts, Ink cartels, & Debunking St. Patrick | 1 April 2014 |
| 110 | Beth Donahue | Taking four-hour acid, The truth about the stem cell acid bath story, & The possibility of a topical fat-burning cream | 8 April 2014 |
| 111 | Cara Santa Maria | The Cosmos reboot, Bath salts: They don't actually make you hungry for faces, & A Cornell grad students letting a bee sting every part of his body | 14 April 2014 |
| 112 | Bryan Bishop | Jumprope failures as cancer symptoms, Going through chemo and radiation therapy while planning your wedding, & Getting (and giving) horrible news | 22 April 2014 |
| 113 | Auggie Smith | Reinventing the axe, A study that reveals the best way for men to dance, & Being goofy-footed | 29 April 2014 |
| 114 | None | Hitler's disabilities, Stephen Hawking's worries, & Building pyramids | 7 May 2014 |
| 115 | Paul Provenza & Amber Case | Live from Bridgetown Comedy Festival | 18 May 2014 |
| 116 | Myq Kaplan | John Lennon's true assassin Stephen King, A defense of puns, & Competing against a computer in a joke-off | 30 May 2014 |
| 117 | Sarah Morgan | Head trauma that created a math savant, A defense of common core math, & Children's natural skepticism of circular arguments | 4 June 2014 |
| 118 | Jason Nash | New information on how the Moon was formed, A debate on parabolic flights, & New research on why Facebook bums you out | 12 June 2014 |
| 119 | Adam Buxton | The counting skills of black bears, Whittling your fingers to type on a Blackberry, & A digression on areolar Montgomery glands | 18 June 2014 |
| 120 | Dr. Christopher Schmitt | old world/new world ape divergence, why certain primates are getting obese, & Koko the gorilla's nipple obsession | 24 June 2014 |
| 121 | Renee Gauthier & Dr. Kevin Peter Hickerson | The actual cost of going to the Moon, Working near CERN, and Studying neutrinos | 1 July 2014 |
| PH 4 | David Cope | Probably History: Video Games | 9 July 2014 |
| 122 | TJ Chambers | Chimpanzee fads, Bear fellatio, & The origin of Winnie the Pooh | 18 July 2014 |
| 123 | Jordan and Ben Brady | Lacerta lizard people, Pluto possibly getting reinstated as a planet, & Suspended animation for gunshot victims | 22 July 2014 |
| 124 | Beth Stelling | Bats navigating via polarized light, Real 3D vs. fake 3D, & The cancer-fighting effects of cat poop | 29 July 2014 |
| 125 | Brent Schmidt & Zach Pugh | Re-purposing coal mines for science, When did Hogwarts abandon muggle technology, & Teenage nervous breakdowns | 7 August 2014 |
| 126 | Matt Champagne and Auggie Smith | Harry Potter corrections, Blair Witch Project disappointments, & Kilobots | 16 August 2014 |
| 127 | Kulap Vilaysack and Mark Agee | The Laotian Civil War, Bo penh nyang, & Dealing with gambling addiction in your family | 21 August 2014 |
| 128 | Adrian Poynton | Getting kicked out of chemistry class, A pseudo-scientific look at the history of shoe sizes, & Secret codes for elevators | 22 August 2014 |
| 129 | Bethany Dwyer | Internet indignation over leaked celeb nudes, Burning Man stories, & A moment of silence for the dead space geckos | 3 September 2014 |
| 130 | Daniel Sloss | Semen's state of matter, The Jack The Ripper story everyone's talking about, & Extreme haunted houses | 9 September 2014 |
| 131 | Roisin Conaty | Using psychedelic mushrooms to quit smoking, A woman with no cerebellum, & Scorpions that live in your books | |
| 132 | Jordan Morris and Dr. Matt Faulkner | Burning Man, musically controlled Tesla Coil, & How to create duophonic music with lightning | 23 September 2014 |
| 133 | Tim Minchin & Dr. Amy Parish | Live from LA PodFest: Bonobos as a model for human feminism & DIY OB/GYNs | 1 October 2014 |
| 134 | Colonel Chris Hadfield | Colonel Chris Hadfield time spent on the ISS | 8 October 2014 |
| 135 | Jeff Richards | Why school sucks, Freddie Mercury's jacket, & Lost cities revealed by lasers | 14 October 2014 |
| 136 | Henry Phillips | Being an awkwardness magnet, the G-spot doesn't exist, & Jesse is responsible for every wet dream | 21 October 2014 |
| 137 | Wil Anderson | The depressingly high percentages of Americans who believe in haunted houses, the origin of copulation, & cola-flavored genitals | 29 October 2014 |
| 138 | Holly Walsh | The Pope's bold new stance on evolution and the Big bang, a recently identified fragment of Amelia Earhart's plane, & chopping arachnophobia out of a man's brain | 5 November 2104 |
| 139 | Tim Lee | Australia's Big Banana, the problem with butt implants, & homosexuality correlation among identical twins | 12 November 2104 |
| 140 | Emily Gordon | Astronomy sleuths uncovering the origins of Monet paintings, a robot that makes you think there's a ghost behind you, & the Third Man Factor experienced by mountain climbers | 18 November 2014 |
| 141 | Michael Kosta | Being the 864th best tennis player in the world, the age-accelerating effects of milk, & contagious yawning in wolves | 25 November 2014 |
| 142 | Alison Haislip | Getting serenaded by wannabe Top Gun pilots, Charles Manson's nuptials, & the man who turned himself into Papa Smurf | 2 December 2014 |
| 143 | Mike Phirman | Trace elements, why we need to be done with fossil fuels by 2100, & the clearest-ever image of planetary formation | 9 December 2014 |
| 144 | Dr. Christina Campbell | Chimps catching bushbabies with spears, why you shouldn't use sign language in front of primates, & the drunken monkey hypothesis | 16 December 2014 |
| 145 | Janet Varney | Spider sex and hairy mouth-parts, the largest genetic analysis of gay brothers, & new evidence on human/neanderthal breeding | 23 December 2014 |
| Holiday Bonus Episode | Lizard Case | Interview with Lizard Case: Nashville songwriter and tavern proprietor | 1 January 2015 |
| 146 | No Guest | A British effort to send a probe to the moon, the slurred singing of drunk birds & whether or not Earth's water came from comets | 8 January 2015 |
| 147 | Gareth Reynolds | The point of the narwhal's point, what self-tickling tells us about brains, & HIV getting milder | 13 January 2015 |
| 148 | Tone Bell | Strummer snail, how Facebook likes can predict personality, & an unbeatable poker computer | 14 January 2015 |
| 149 | Patrick Keane | Polar bear wangs and pollution, P.T.S.D. in the ancient world, and the speech Nixon would have given if the Moon landing had gone wrong | 26 January 2015 |
| 150 | Todd Glass | Jesus painting restoration, un-boiling an egg, & why you shouldn't hit your kids | 4 February 2015 |
| 151 | Jackie Gold | Broken Heart Syndrome, UK lawmakers approving three-parent babies, & over-the-counter medicine linked to dementia | 12 February 2015 |
| 152 | Barry Castagnola | Rodents of unusual size with giant teeth, the doomsday list, & a new Earth-like planet | 18 February 2015 |
| 153 | Nikki Glaser | Naughty aphids ruining symbiosis for everyone, light slowed down, & gerbils and rats and plagues, oh my | 25 February 2015 |
| 154 | Brooks Wheelan | RHCP tattoos, Juggalos and tattoo removal creams, & why bubbles don't spill | 3 March 2015 |
| 155 | Laraine Newman | spider painkillers, worms that crawl in and out, & DNA-rendered faces | March 9, 2015 |
| 156 | Sara Schaefer | denim facts, time travel plans & 9/11 tales | March 19, 2015 |
| 157 | Robin Ince & Brian Cox (physicist) | David Lynch's America, why the queen is common, & Andy's obsession with The Jinx | March 24, 2015 |
| 158 | Caitlin Doughty | what goes down in a crematory, why dead bodies aren't dangerous to be around, & our society's disconnect with its dead | March 31, 2015 |
| 159 | Jay Famiglietti | using surface water and reservoirs vs. dipping into groundwater reserves, agricultural vs. residential water consumption, & why local rainfall doesn't help us get out of our water deficit | April 7, 2015 |
| 160 | Brendon Walsh | the problem with human cannibalism, cleaning your brain surgery tools, laser wound healing | April 14, 2015 |
| 161 | Ryan Singer | heart-to-heart hugs, the origin of toasting, when to use questions to influence people, the return of brontosaurus | April 21, 2015 |
| 162 | Rye Silverman | trans facts, the Riddick man, how to spot a ghost | April 30, 2015 |
| 163 | Sex at Dawn Author Dr. Chris Ryan, Caitlin Gill and Lisa Best, Live from the Bridgetown Comedy Festival | the prehistoric roots of modern sexuality, the devastating impact of agriculture on our species, and whether it's actually in our nature to be monogamous | May 12, 2015 |
| 164 | Chris Crofton | conspiracy theory talk, the reason why the same side of the moon always faces us, and the clouds of millions of baby spiders descending on Australia | May 19, 2015 |
| 165 | Kira Soltanovich | how to say places, badly named bars, Alzheimer's and video games (and a debunking) | May 27, 2015 |
| 166 | Erin Gibson | a chocolate science scam, herpes-based skin cancer therapy, dementor wasps and zombie cockroaches, charismatic megafauna and the Ugly Animal Preservation Society | June 3, 2015 |
| 167 | Sean Patton | immaculate conception among sawfish, putting kill switches in genetically modified organisms, and what baby traits you should be allowed to edit | June 16, 2015 |
| 168 | Bryan Safi | the Philae comet lander waking up, time-traveling wave-particles, chimps that cook and sauerkraut's effect on anxiety | June 24, 2015 |
| 169 | Jackie Kashian, TJ Chambers and Mark Agee | left-handed kangaroos, the Pluto probe suffering a glitch, a creepy Google AI chatbot getting philosophical and cats controlling mice with chemicals in their urine | July 6, 2015 |
| 170 | Eddie Pepitone | an upcoming mini-ice age that might not be upcoming, animal testing and monkey mind melds, citrus and cancer, toothy fish and fairy fossils, and how we're cleaning up space | July 14, 2015 |
| 171 | Pluto Flyby with Dipak Srinivasan | New Horizons mission, the MESSENGER Mercury orbiter and the upcoming Solar Probe Plus mission to scrape the surface of the Sun | July 20, 2015 |
| 172 | Hampton Yount | paying for a Pluto probe or an NFL stadium, slowing air travel, colonizing the moon, bacon-flavored kale, being controlled by semen, and a malaria vaccine | July 31, 2015 |
| 173 | Drennon Davis | earthquake-jumping and rock balancing, old mice with young blood, fantastical EM drive stuff, chatting bonobos, 3D-printed drugs, and an Ebola vaccine | August 5, 2015 |
| 174 | Jesse Popp | a newly discovered tessellating pentagon, Penrose tiling, Fermat's Last Theorem, space lettuce, giant marrows, dreamy eye movements, brain-scanning software, brain dipsticks and trepanning | August 12, 2015 |
| 175 | Matt Braunger and Auggie Smith | early detection cancer urine tests, the EPA's river fuck-up, arsenic and widows, using shade balls to protect reservoirs, the web's too-weak random numbers, Benford's Law, and tiger calls. | August 18, 2015 |
| 176 | David Huntsberger and Jesse Case | rodeo facts, the awakeness drug Provigil, cheating in war, Neanderthals' massive eyes that may or may not have caused extinction, and tiny new unafraid dwarf lemurs | August 26, 2015 |
| 177 | Matt Knudsen | pseudoscience and snake oil, merchant marines, space elevators, LED light pollution, why global warming is good for the rich and the incredible octopus. | August 31, 2015 |
| 178 | Amber Preston | whether video games produce violent people or not, smoking birds, violent ancient farmers, books that purify water, the most electric place on earth, and whether swimming in lightning dangerous | September 9, 2015 |
| 179 | Josie Long and Stuart Goldsmith | how condensation works, what voltage is, magnetic wormholes, debunking spinach debunking, psych experiments that can't be reproduced and a brand new hominid | September 17, 2015 |
| 180 | Patton Oswalt, Sean Carroll and Brooks Wheelan Live from LA PodFest | original third host Brooks Wheelan, along with comedy legend Patton Oswalt and Caltech theoretical physicist/cosmologist Dr. Sean Carroll | September 23, 2015 |
| 181 | Tim Batt and Guy Montgomery | monkey selfies, AIDS news, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the climate change “lawsuit”, a new target for New Horizons, new Pluto pics, and the Apollo 13 stage show | September 29, 2015 |
| 182 | Dave Anthony | anti-burp compounds, fixing brain cancer with antidepressants and blood thinners, cannabis not causing schizophrenia, a double comet situation, and 3D-printed hearts | October 8, 2015 |
| 183 | Jacob Sirof | new jobs, orgasm fungi, Star Wars science, Wales and fake waves, a Chinese telescope on the moon, cheating Jews, converting vaccine skeptics and pig genes | October 15, 2015 |
| 184 | Johann Hari | the emotional deafness of the rich, the government's persecution of Billie Holiday, new theories of addiction, Rat Park, Portugal's radical policy changes and the way to sell America on drug decriminalization | October 21, 2015 |
| 185 | Kelly Carlin | calculus, mind-body connections, right answers in math, whether snake fear is hard-wired, science and the Canadian election, magnetic brain control, the Gripsholm Lion, orange peels to clean up mercury, Marie Curie and Mabel Normand | October 28, 2015 |
| 186 | Kerry Godliman | science vs. art, cadaver fists, the persistence of the plague, embarrassing bodies, a clickbait generator, and bee farmers | November 5, 2015 |
| 187 | Sofie Hagen and Sarah Morgan | Danish science, being thrown free, a chimera twin baby, new ghosts, a new bat, spider bites, China's space plans, eyesight, face blindness, the bacon cancer scare, and crocodile eyes | November 11, 2015 |
| 188 | Travis Clark, Dax Jordan and TJ Chambers | breaking the blood brain barrier, GPS versus sextants, DARYL and what it stands for, jet packs, rocket belts, wing things and personal helicopters, and dementia and Dr. Demento | November 18, 2015 |
| 189 | Yan Zhu | online security, privacy, encryption, HTTPS Everywhere, podcast patent trolls, Privacy Badger, the Tor browser, the future of online ads, Edward Snowden, and the Silk Road | November 30, 2015 |
| 190 | Daniel Van Kirk | cow insemination, memory games, outrage culture, the climate and smoking, Merchants of Doubt, profound bullshit, David Avocado Wolfe, the surprising appearance of the far side of the Moon, TV quality, Bubbli, blindness and multiple personalities, movies based on the 10% of the brain idea and a Venus probe hack | December 9, 2015 |
| 191 | Cole Stratton | academic decathlons, bringing spoiled wine back to life, Phineas Gage, the Amber neighbor mystery, an old satellite that came back to life, red mercury, letterboxing and summer births | December 17, 2015 |
| 192 | Ryan Conner | the passing of David Bowie, Alvin Stardust, computer programming, a mountain lion with horrifying teeth growing out of its head, praying mantises in 3D glasses, wine story corrections, types of drunks, sperm switches, and bone foam | January 14, 2016 |
| 193 | Adam Savage and Paul and Storm live from SF Sketchfest | science myths that won't die, Billy Joel videos, our overeducated audience, soaking kiwis and the wet strength of Charmin | January 19, 2016 |
| 194 | Maria Shehata and Nick Dixon | the discovery of penicillin, vaginal steaming, poop transplant pills, autism and gut flora, standing on escalators, man/woman flu, and bringing a tortoise species back to life | January 27, 2016 |
| 195 | Maude Garrett | Foley artists, weird childhood memorization, a computer that beat a Go champion, E-sports, a new planet, a new HIV treatment, how quickly conspiracies would reveal themselves, and a monkey head transplant | February 1, 2016 |
| 196 | Ingrid Oliver | pengwings, umlaut words, plastination, bees and weather, sniffer bees, first class flight, anti-aging, the Zika virus, how we'll all die, and ball-packing and avalanches | February 19, 2016 |
| -- | Gravitational Wave LIGO Spectacular | With Janna Levin: science fluff, Marco Drago's discovery?, How LIGO works, 30 solar mass black holes, test signals, the actual paper explaining the recent gravitational wave findings, BICEP's failure, and new black holes | February 19, 2016 |
| 197 | Dr. Chiara Mingarelli | low-frequency gravitational waves, pulsar timings arrays and black hole binary systems with masses that are billions of times that of the Sun | February 25, 2016 |
| 198 | Alice Wetterlund | Equinox, aliens, Star Trek, why humans have chins, navigating in Ghana, space lasers and exploding e-cigarettes | March 2, 2016 |
| 199 | Rick Rosner, the Man with the Second-Highest IQ in the World | What3Words, xkcd's take on passwords, IQ tests, spending ten years in high school, Olbers’ Paradox, The Singularity, Ray Kurzweil, being Borg-ed up, and Alcor freezing heads | March 8, 2016 |
| 200 | Jesse Case and Brooks Wheelan | break-ups, cancer and even a few science stories | March 17, 2016 |
| 201 | Tom Bell | unscrambling eggs to cure cancer, an academic paper that cites The Creator, eagles vs. drones, and spider boners in amber. | March 23, 2016 |
| 202 | Jessica Michelle Singleton and Christina Walkinshaw | super coffee, Microsoft AI, a scientifically impossible Indiegogo, Edx.org's free learning, Vasalgel in rabbits, rabbit kidneys, long term good drug effects and fracking-induced earthquakes | April 2, 2016 |
| 203 | Jason Belleville | mustaches and tattoos, academic papers, encyclopedias, Stan and Donavan Freberg, using giant lasers to hide from aliens, growing skin and nude mice, a battery-operated salty fork, flavors on planes and the greatest number of digits of pi we'll ever really need | April 6, 2016 |
| 204 | Jon Huck and Sunah Bilsted | chemistry on acid, a Carl Sagan tribute act, the historic SpaceX landing, hyperhidrosis, antiperspirant conspiracies, a too-stealthy sea vessel, Hawking and the Russians sending a tiny craft to Alpha Centauri, and antimemories | April 13, 2016 |
| 205 | April Richardson | Dyson face, a dung-based clue to Hannibal's crossing route, a paralyzed man (sort of) playing guitar, dinosaurs and their eggs and a real-time re-creation of the sinking of the Titanic. | April 19, 2016 |
| 206 | Andrew Michaan | celebrity deaths, Catholic aliens, black holes, the Large Hadron Collider, bed bugs, a penis spider bite, IUDs in space and jellyfish stings | April 27, 2016 |
| 207 | Fahim Anwar | bringing people back from the dead, archaeology vs. paleontology, another EM Drive debunking from Sean Carroll, enzyme corrections, 3D-printed fake rhino horns, and breast cancer gene mapping | May 4, 2016 |
| 208 | Zach Sherwin | p-branes, playing Einstein, the new Ghostbusters script, silver underwear, a teen's Mayan discovery that may not be what it seems, everyone yells air ball at the same pitch, diving robots, being bepenised, and long-lasting batteries | May 11, 2016 |
| 209 | Mary Roach | the curious science of humans at war, combat medic training, stink bombs, genital transplant surgery, the war on heat, shark repellant and diarrhea as a threat to national security | May 25, 2016 |
| 210 | Ella Gale and Sarah Mirk | gender biases in science reporting, women in science (and comedy) and why it's hard to make bagels when it's hot outside | June 8, 2016 |
| 211 | John Eric Hoffman | machine learning, neural networks, Maxwell's Demon, DeepDream, natural language processing and the recent short sci-fi film written by AI | June 15, 2016 |
| 212 | Alie Ward | supernumerary nipples, owl pellet mouse skeletons, a third lizard sex, an inflatable space station room, aeronautic training, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, MRSA, and wrestling bugs | June 21, 2016 |
| 213 | Professor Sophie Scott and Nick Doody | the neural basis of human speech processing | July 4, 2016 |
| 214 | Derek Sheen and Sean Jordan | Juno's pics of Jupiter, AIDS ceasing to be an epidemic in Australia, good news on the ozone hole's healing, and even more good news about finding new reserves of helium | July 14, 2016 |
| 215 | Dr. Farah Alibay | a real-world Armageddon mission to redirect an asteroid, CubeSats, giant geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus, the importance of planetary protection and upcoming solar system exploration missions | July 19, 2016 |
| 216 | Al Jackson | ball-boiling as contraception, why flossing may not help you, steroids in sports, Al's research, stomach taps, old cars vs. new cars, firefighting equipment sharing and fire in space | July 28, 2016 |
| 217 | Ahmed Bharoocha and Auggie Smith | a new hard material, the Mohs hardness scale, Pliny the Elder, the Randi paranormal challenge, new brain areas, a new biohybrid creature, a Mars laser with free will, and artwork damagers | August 15, 2016 |
| 218 | Christian Duguay and Emily Maya Mills | burning ants, Hitler's disguises, bank robbery, infant simulators that actually increase teen pregnancy, Lucy's death, a miraculous new painkiller, ecstasy/MDMA, Tasmanian devils developing cancer resistance and the ban on antibacterial soap | September 6, 2016 |
| 219 | Shane Mauss | evolutionary biology, the state of scientific research into recreational drugs, simulated near-death experiences, and the differences between trying ayahuasca and DMT | September 16, 2016 |
| 220 | Steele Saunders | mice and apologies, weed vs. opioids in car crashes, bumper sticker flashing, Australians origins, and giraffes actually being many giraffes | September 30, 2016 |
| 221 | Shawn Pearlman | budgie rules for not colliding, amateur turtle surgery, getting intelligence from your mother, a baby with three parents and the most accurate (and adorable) dinosaur renderings yet. | October 10, 2016 |
| 222 | Lizzy Cooperman | Invisalign, fan death, having Lyme disease, Nobel Prizes in chemistry, physics and medicine, self-eating boobs and the end of Rosetta | October 17, 2016 |
| 223 | Greg Behrendt | the joys of riding bikes, cod accents, Nazis on meth, Provigil and sleep, black widow spider viruses, a correction to the intelligence story, Alan Turing music and Dr. Strange | October 25, 2016 |
| 224 | Moshe Kasher | playground games, stealthy spider eaters, mice fall for the same tricks as humans, the rise of renewables, vaccine deniers who accidentally proved the counterargument, conspiracy theories, the AIDS denial mom, the Duesberg hypothesis, and an accidental discovery of a way to slow aging in the brain | November 2, 2016 |
| 225 | Grant Lyon | naked cow science, why reservoirs aren't all good, surgery farts, nightmare machines, sentencing algorithms, a third hominid and Patient Letter O | November 10, 2016 |
| 226 | Toby Muresianu | Macedonian Facebook clickbait, polling methodologies, the supermoon, dog domestication, brain wifi that reverses monkey paralysis and a new type of bond | November 14, 2016 |
| 227 | Eric Lampaert and JJ Whitehead | NASA's Space Poop Challenge, paper bike helmets, an end to zika's global health emergency, the hanging of a shipwrecked monkey and a circus elephant, and two moose found locked together in ice. | November 22, 2016 |
| 228 | Cecily Knobler and Auggie Smith | hospice humor, intervention critiques, sex addiction getting depathologized, Myers-Briggs personality types, high school kids undercutting Martin Shkreli's expensive drugs, Google's AI that can lip read better than humans, SNL's Trump responsibility, naming Secretaries of State | December 1, 2016 |
| 229 | Bryan Olsen and Dominic Harris | battery pigs, Buzz and Antarctica, dog memory, gut Parkinson's, fecal transplants again, new elements, the chemistry helpline, uncombable hair syndrome, and platypus venom that can help diabetes | December 5, 2016 |
| 230 | Forrest Shaw | face painting and Mexican fireworks and lax laws, manatee preservation and their removal from storm drains, a bid to save the smallest porpoise, Chinese appetites for rare animals, a feathery dinosaur tail encased in amber, SSREs and the bees of the ocean | December 17, 2016 |
| 231 | The Secret Life of Fat with Dr. Sylvia Tara | the function and behavior of fat, why it's essential to our lives, and how our genetics, gender, hormones and microbiomes affect it | January 3, 2017 |
| 232 | Steve Hall | pamphlets and Thomas Paine, the passing of dark matter-discoverer Vera Rubin, ants using tiny sponges to carry honey, molten underground rivers, Bill Gates and an effective Ebola vaccine, Dr. Jane Gregory's Cognitive Behave Yourself | January 3, 2017 |
| 233 | Maggie Rowe | entropy and evolution, false memory and sleep, synaesthesia and lightning strikes, icebergs and global warming, and radio bursts from a galaxy billions of light years away | January 9, 2017 |
| 234 | Laura Willcox and Andy Peters | failing low-level tests, sharks reproducing asexually, dud rockets, a massive Venus wave, the truth about lemmings and other potentially dodgy kids' films, plus alchemy | January 17, 2017 |
| 235 | Andrew Ti | injecting frog neurotoxins in eyes, unethical self-experiments, the EPA vs. Trump, fake news inoculation, a free course on critical reasoning, and mouse lasers | January 25, 2017 |
| 236 | James Acaster | city rivalries, science marches, Jerusalem Syndrome and Paris Syndrome, human/pig chimeras, cats possibly being as intelligent as dogs, giant otter fossils, slowing down light, a light speed sonic boom | January 30, 2017 |
| 237 | Simon Talbot | Jehovah's witnessing, our no-butthole ancestor, dinosaur protein, Danish traditions, time crystals, ask-a-sociopath, talking viruses and a possible way to reverse antibiotic resistance | February 6, 2017 |
| 238 | Ever Mainard and Deborah Etta | scientific weirdos and Galois, starfish and STDs, finger regrowth, why whales jump, unethical kitten experiments, science fairs gone wrong, moon stuff and monkeys and dogs judging cooperation in humans | February 13, 2017 |
| 239 | Kate Willett | NASA's big exoplanet announcement, the twin paradox, twin astronauts, fake Twitter accounts, a study showing that cats may not make you crazy, and a chiropractor's creative menstrual invention. | February 22, 2017 |
| 240 | Johnny Pemberton | water shortage solutions and Indiegogo lies, pipe bombs, ulcerative colitis, a better way to crowdsource, training bees to play with balls, chiropractic, more opinions on cats and toxo, and saving polar ice | March 3, 2017 |
| 241 | Candice Thompson | ASMR, Richard Simmons, anti-Brit racism, what zoo animals taste like, Neanderthals’ medication, mini-pigs and films about them, iCondoms, 3D printing medical supplies and pizzas, swimming pool pee and dog fMRIs | March 9, 2017 |
| 242 | Phoebe Bottoms and TJ Chambers | sirens and pigs, breaking up with your physics teacher, microphones in your pocket, why avoiding gluten might hurt you, unvaccinated Australians, OCD, which animals you can't keep as pets, and why plastic is still bad | March 18, 2017 |
| 243 | MK Paulsen | public policy, October Sky, RIP radioactive boy scout, a heart of spinach, German fake suns, beating cancer and stopping aging, strep, the Ten Commandments, and chimp death rituals. | March 28, 2017 |
| 244 | Henry Phillips | graphene water filtration, a real-life (sort-of) Iron Man, funny foreign names, CT scan risks, CTs vs. MRIs, biologics, dumb/smart interview questions and the probability of rude names happening randomly | April 5, 2017 |
| 245 | Bryan Vokey, Carmen Morales and TJ Chambers | Georgia creationism, sperm-delivered drugs, erogenous T-Rex noses, geological Brexit, Segways on boats, hamsters on Viagra and how memories are made | April 14, 2017 |
| 246 | Mary Mack and Tim Harmston | Frog rockets, orchestral doubling, Army band status, Guy Fawkes, accidentally melting science, dinobirds, kids with beaks, triple yolks, yogurt toppings economics, the book-stacking problem and why shoelaces come untied | April 19, 2017 |
| 247 | Russell Howard | unintentional rudeness, new spider species, birds of paradise dances, Catalina and gerbil smuggling, more spiders, scaring off mice, artificial wombs and throwing things | May 5, 2017 |
| 248 | Live from Bridgetown Comedy Festival with Dr. Betsey Brada, Dr. Bryan Horne and Hampton Yount | guests' expertise is in health and medicine in southern Africa and bardic song in contemporary Russia | May 5, 2017 |
| 249 | Neil deGrasse Tyson | The universe's origins, the forces that govern it, general relativity, the multiverse, dark matter, dark energy, the fact that the universe is under no obligation to make sense to you, and the questions that Neil would ask a physicist in the year 2317 | May 17, 2017 |
| 250 | Subhah Agarwal | actuarial tables and suicide, copying comics, asteroid timing, river meandering, a perfect dino, stable flamingos, Italian vaccines, mussel gloop for scarring, pretty pics of Saturn's rings and a puffy styrofoam planet | May 25, 2017 |
| 251 | Renee Colvert | Paris disagreements, universal healthcare, Australian healthcare, another LIGO victory, the Parker Solar Probe, the monkey mafia who steal your stuff and sell it back to you for a cracker, measuring sheep pain, and hand washing rules | June 2, 2017 |
| 252 | Curtis Cook | premiere parties and imposter syndrome, catapult-making, Moravec's paradox, dino feathers and scales, getting re-upped on your vaccines, rust getting unfairly blamed for tetanus and parasitic worm healing | June 8, 2017 |
| 253 | Lucas Kavner | rebooted shows, reporting on robots, dog and wolf sharing, how breakfast affects benevolence, Einstein's impossible experiment finally performed, gut bacteria and dinosaur sex | June 15, 2017 |
| 255 | Dr. Jane Gregory | Guest discusses cognitive behavior therapy and how she helps people suffering from anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and more | July 3, 2017 |
| 256 | Jason Reich | eating street apples and syringes, Vegas strategy, an HIV cure, gonorrhea vaccines, vaquitas, fireworks technology, and what Goop has in common with InfoWars | July 12, 2017 |
| 257 | Jim Hegarty | good and bad TV, the Up Series, fireworks contamination, dog domestication, junk DNA, the crazy fly book price, Brewster's Millions rules, egg shapes and egg refrigeration | July 20, 2017 |
| 258 | Heather Thomson | early email addresses, Woodboys, laws of mathematics that don't apply in Australia, how humans can out-jog horses, antibiotic lies, reversing brain damage with oxygen, and Moon water | August 2, 2017 |
| 259 | Kara Klenk | why Trump isn't good for comedy, bad forensics, hungry thinky worms, penis biting, bleach enemas to cure autism, slugs, Canaanites who just won't die and The Goldwater Rule | August 12, 2017 |
| 260 | Dipak Srinivasan | the Mercury MESSENGER mission, the Pluto New Horizons flyby, Kuiper belt object 2014 MU69, and the upcoming Parker Solar Probe and a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa | August 21, 2017 |
| 261 | Sara Benincasa | Burning Man, Woodstock '99, talking people down from drugs, creating cryptocurrencies, whiskey dilution, faces trained on Skype, and Zika for brain tumors | September 8, 2017 |
| 262 | Casey Ley | gay genes, gay face and AI, the first openly gay guy ever, snow leopards becoming less endangered, the end of Cassini, the first live 4K video from space, and the life of Sam Blackman | September 15, 2017 |
| 263 | Sharon Houston | flavor profiles, hurricane prep, Hemingway lookalikes, wolverines, duck penises, finger phone contact, genes vs. alleles, the concept of zero, chisanbop counting, zapping people out of vegetative states, and spider sacrifice | September 27, 2017 |
| 264 | Alice Fraser | jet lag, breaking the seal, MS, a body clock Nobel Prize, Dr. Matt Walker's new sleep book, a LIGO Nobel Prize and Janna Levin's book on it, the downside of grass-fed beef, and cargo cults | October 5, 2017 |
| 265 | Brooks Wheelan and Dave Anthony live from LA PodFest | a live Probably Science from the Millenium Biltmore hotel in downtown Los Angeles as part of the 2017 Los Angeles Podcast Festival | October 13, 2017 |
| 266 | Galloway Allbright | the death of expertise, the origin of bluegrass, in-flight death plans, a neutron star collision, the LIGO song, psilocybin for depression, genes for OCD, an upcoming Chinese space lab crash, China's NASA and scorpions' toxic blend | October 23, 2017 |
| 267 | Jason Saenz | debunked early psychology experiments, oyster hearing, squirrels and lepers, armadillo leprosy in Florida, a good moonbase location, Pluto's Cave, herbal meds and cancer, and blood sweat | October 31, 2017 |
| 268 | Raj Desai | looking more closely at the placebo effect, and how the extinction of dinosaurs made way for mammals to come out during the day | November 8, 2017 |
| 269 | Chris Turner | archeology, old wine, old Amish people, gay evolution, monkeys playing chicken and the theory of mind | November 17, 2017 |
| 270 | Dr. Danna Staaf | Humboldt squid, penis fencing among hermaphroditic flatworms, calamari pre-date the dinosaurs, and why we should all have a lot more respect and awe for cephalopods in general | November 21, 2017 |
| 271 | Eli Braden | jazz addicts, conspiracy theories, not a head transplant, prehistoric women's strength, mnemonics, grossing out chimps, health codes and California D | November 30, 2017 |
| 272 | Pat Francis | donating medals, miming phones, teen brains that can't tell what's important, homeless etiquette, Voyager I firing up again, coffee and health, grammar rules and beard posturing | December 5, 2017 |
| 273 | Jim Jefferies | self-driving cars, feeding spiders graphene, a new space tire, Mars temperatures, cricket commentary, onion ubiquity, Dubai space agriculture, business class from the ground, and upsetting rock stars | December 18, 2017 |
| 274 | Environmental Science and Sustainable Food with Dr. Pete Newton | "food miles" not all they're cracked up to be, hunting pangolins, anaconda attacks in the field, the perils of ruminants, changing our behavior, changing a whole country's behavior, and lab-grown meat | December 26, 2017 |
| 275 | TJ Chambers and Auggie Smith | the recent SpaceX launch, traveling salesbees, sleeping jellyfish, Matt Walker on sleep, and how to keep your exercise resolution | January 3, 2018 |
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