This week Katharyn and Meg talk about cow licks, a new mission to one of Jupiter's icy moons, glacier mice, and a creepy demon child who was friends with Samuel Morse. Thanks for listening!https://www.nbcnews.com/healthmain/bad-hair-day-experts-explain-curse-cowlick-1C6437140 https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/europa-three-more-clues/https://www.space.com/15498-europa-sdcmp.html https://www.npr.org/2020/05/22/858800112/herd-like-movement-of-fuzzy-green-glacier-mice-baffles-scientists  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bumblebees-bite-plants-to-force-them-to-flower-seriously/ http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/reform/jb_reform_morsecod_1.htmlFollow The Pod!Instagram: @SomewhatScientificTwitter: @SomewhatScientificEmail us with any corrections at SomewhatScientificPod@gmail.com Follow Meghan:MeghanWalshComedy.comInstagram: @Diabeatz_Twitter: @Diabeatz Follow Katharyn:EwGirlYouNasty.comInstagram: @ewgirlyounasty

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Pacific Rim 3: Europa Rising

This week Katharyn and Meg talk about colorful birds, tiny masks, lame gardens, and a very active volcano. Thanks for listening!Also, for some reason I accidentally said that this week in science took place on May 15, 1980, but it was actually May 18th. My Bad!https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/19/coronavirus-wearing-a-mask-can-reduce-transmission-by-75percent-new-study-claims.html  https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/how-to-grow-vegetables-on-mars/   https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/05/mount-st-helens-isnt-where-should-be-scientists-may-finally-know-why/  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4f_1_r80RY  Follow The Pod!Instagram: @SomewhatScientificTwitter: @SomewhatScientificEmail us with any corrections at SomewhatScientificPod@gmail.com Follow Meghan:MeghanWalshComedy.comInstagram: @Diabeatz_Twitter: @Diabeatz Follow Katharyn:EwGirlYouNasty.comInstagram: @ewgirlyounasty

Ep. 30 - Tiny Science

This week Katharyn and Meg talk about moldy boots, deadly bugs, and happy butchers. Thanks for listening!https://www.pubs.ext.vt.edu/2901/2901-7019/2901-7019.htmlhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-020-0508-1https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4726748/ https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Femo0000738 https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/this-week-in-chemical-history/week-19.html  Follow The Pod!Instagram: @SomewhatScientificTwitter: @SomewhatScientificEmail us with any corrections at SomewhatScientificPod@gmail.com Follow Meghan:MeghanWalshComedy.comInstagram: @Diabeatz_Twitter: @Diabeatz Follow Katharyn:EwGirlYouNasty.comInstagram: @ewgirlyounasty

Ep. 29 - Mold Palace

This week Katharyn and Meg talk about milk, the infamous murder hornets, dirt, and our favorite ever week in science. Thanks for listening!  https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/scientists-waited-two-and-a-half-years-to-see-whether-bacteria-can-eat-rock/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pill-us-food-and-drug-administration-approves-pill/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/invasion-murder-hornets-180974809/ Follow The Pod!Instagram: @SomewhatScientificTwitter: @SomewhatScientificEmail us with any corrections at SomewhatScientificPod@gmail.com Follow Meghan:MeghanWalshComedy.comInstagram: @Diabeatz_Twitter: @Diabeatz Follow Katharyn:EwGirlYouNasty.comInstagram: @ewgirlyounasty

Ep. 28 - Murder Hornets, Revisited

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's the background noise of Katharyn's recording! (sorry) This week Katharyn and Meg talk about parachuting spiders, why you never see baby pigeons, and an important, tiny discovery. Welcome to season two and thanks for listening!    https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/05/150518-spiders-australia-silk-webs-animals-environment/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/science/pigeons-boston-new-york.html  http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150907-why-dont-you-ever-see-baby-pigeons https://www.npr.org/2020/04/18/820953617/the-killer-at-home-house-cats-have-more-impact-on-local-wildlife-than-wild-preda https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/this-week-in-chemical-history/week-18.html   Follow The Pod!Instagram: @SomewhatScientificTwitter: @SomewhatScientificEmail us with any corrections at SomewhatScientificPod@gmail.com Follow Meghan:MeghanWalshComedy.comInstagram: @Diabeatz_Twitter: @Diabeatz Follow Katharyn:EwGirlYouNasty.comInstagram: @ewgirlyounasty

Ep. 27 - Birds Aren't Real

This week Katharyn and Meg talk about empathetic scrotal pain, charitable babies, and why all athletes should be barefoot. Thanks for listening!   https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00289/full https://www.washington.edu/news/2020/02/04/altruistic-babies-study-shows-infants-are-willing-to-give-up-food-help-others/ https://www.businessinsider.com/why-nike-vaporfly-shoes-make-runners-faster-2019-11 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-groundhog-day      Follow The Pod!Instagram: @SomewhatScientificTwitter: @SomewhatScientificEmail us with any corrections at SomewhatScientificPod@gmail.com Follow Meghan:MeghanWalshComedy.comInstagram: @Diabeatz_Twitter: @Diabeatz Follow Katharyn:EwGirlYouNasty.comInstagram: @ewgirlyounasty

Baby Benevolence

This week Katharyn and Meg record remotely again! Please try to ignore the sound of the train that is sometimes in the background... my bad. We talk about why you shouldn't eat bats, scientific grave desecration, and why you should stop playing chess with your computer. Thanks for listening!   https://www.popsci.com/story/health/wuhan-coronavirus-china-wet-market-wild-animal/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/science/mummy-voice.htmlhttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-dont-learn-to-trust-bots/ https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_gallery_2437.html      Follow The Pod!Instagram: @SomewhatScientificTwitter: @SomewhatScientificEmail us with any corrections at SomewhatScientificPod@gmail.com Follow Meghan:MeghanWalshComedy.comInstagram: @Diabeatz_Twitter: @Diabeatz Follow Katharyn:EwGirlYouNasty.comInstagram: @ewgirlyounasty

Ice Cold Coronavirus

Welcome to our first remote episode! This week Katharyn and Meg talk about constipation, diving beetles, and the first clinical x-ray. Thanks for listening! Follow The Pod!Instagram: @SomewhatScientificTwitter: @SomewhatScientificEmail us with any corrections at SomewhatScientificPod@gmail.com Follow Meghan:MeghanWalshComedy.comInstagram: @Diabeatz_Twitter: @Diabeatz Follow Katharyn:EwGirlYouNasty.comInstagram: @ewgirlyounasty

A Somewhat Scientific Miracle

This week it's an episode from the vault! We talk about sleeping, NASA, Canada's single use plastic ban and why Katharyn should recycle. Thanks for listening! Follow The Pod!Instagram: @SomewhatScientificTwitter: @SomewhatScientificEmail us with any corrections at SomewhatScientificPod@gmail.com Follow Meghan:MeghanWalshComedy.comInstagram: @Diabeatz_Twitter: @Diabeatz Follow Katharyn:EwGirlYouNasty.comInstagram: @ewgirlyounasty

Katharyn Should Recycle

This week Katharyn and Meg talk about why we should all be setting things on fire with lasers, vicarious embarrassment, and a 100 year old torso. Thanks for listening!   https://lasers.llnl.gov/education/how_lasers_workhttps://www.npr.org/2019/12/30/792340177/chinese-researcher-who-created-gene-edited-babies-sentenced-to-3-years-in-prisonhttps://www.popsci.com/story/science/cringe-embarrassment-science-psychology/ https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/12/31/us/ap-us-cave-body-identified.html https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/this-week-in-chemical-history/week-2.html      Follow The Pod!Instagram: @SomewhatScientificTwitter: @SomewhatScientificEmail us with any corrections at SomewhatScientificPod@gmail.com Follow Meghan:MeghanWalshComedy.comInstagram: @Diabeatz_Twitter: @Diabeatz Follow Katharyn:EwGirlYouNasty.comInstagram: @ewgirlyounasty

Laser Enthusiasts

This week Katharyn and Meg talk about stress induced heart attacks, why smoking is cooler than vaping, and how Teddy Roosevelt is a little responsible for taking the coke out of Coca-Cola. Thanks for listening!   https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/stress-cardiomyopathy-a-different-kind-of-heart-attack-201509038239https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/12/20/790154919/cdc-confirms-a-thc-contaminant-vitamin-e-acetate-the-culprit-in-most-vaping-deat https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/science/boeing-starliner-launch.html https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/exhibitions/congress-and-progressive-era/pure-food-and-drug-act https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/mh370-malaysia-airlines/590653/      Follow The Pod!Instagram: @SomewhatScientificTwitter: @SomewhatScientificEmail us with any corrections at SomewhatScientificPod@gmail.com Follow Meghan:MeghanWalshComedy.comInstagram: @Diabeatz_Twitter: @Diabeatz Follow Katharyn:EwGirlYouNasty.comInstagram: @ewgirlyounasty

Public Relations Nightmare

This week Katharyn and Meg talk about intuitive eating, why the Scottish ills may have been caused by a volcano, and the science of Christmas movies. Thanks for listening!   https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/intermittent-fasting-surprising-update-2018062914156https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377027319303087 https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/this-week-in-chemical-history/week-52.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/movies/christmas-movies-television.html      Follow The Pod!Instagram: @SomewhatScientificTwitter: @SomewhatScientificEmail us with any corrections at SomewhatScientificPod@gmail.com Follow Meghan:MeghanWalshComedy.comInstagram: @Diabeatz_Twitter: @Diabeatz Follow Katharyn:EwGirlYouNasty.comInstagram: @ewgirlyounasty

Scottish Volcano

This week Katharyn and Meg talk about why teens shouldn't be allowed to get tattoos, an exciting group of penis shaped marine life, and a super low-key oil spill. Thanks for listening!   https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/03/08/591315450/tattoo-you-immune-system-cells-help-keep-ink-in-its-placehttps://www.popsci.com/story/animals/penis-fish/ https://oceana.org/marine-life/cephalopods-crustaceans-other-shellfish/geoduck   https://www.popsci.com/hagfish-slime-expands/  https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CZIC-gc1212-m3-a73-1977/html/CZIC-gc1212-m3-a73-1977.htm      Follow The Pod!Instagram: @SomewhatScientificTwitter: @SomewhatScientificEmail us with any corrections at SomewhatScientificPod@gmail.com Follow Meghan:MeghanWalshComedy.comInstagram: @Diabeatz_Twitter: @Diabeatz Follow Katharyn:EwGirlYouNasty.comInstagram: @ewgirlyounasty

Penis Shaped Animals

This week Katharyn and Meg talk about why Katharyn hasn't gotten pregnant, domestication, and the turbulent life of the man who blessed us all with nitrous oxide. Thanks for listening!   https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/low-sperm-count/symptoms-causes/syc-20374585https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/reference/domesticated-animals/  https://phys.org/news/2018-02-humans-domesticate.html   https://www.genetics.org/content/197/3/795   https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/12/eaaw7908  https://anesthesiology.pubs.asahq.org/article.aspx?articleid=1918086    Follow The Pod!Instagram: @SomewhatScientificTwitter: @SomewhatScientificEmail us with any corrections at SomewhatScientificPod@gmail.com Follow Meghan:MeghanWalshComedy.comInstagram: @Diabeatz_Twitter: @Diabeatz Follow Katharyn:EwGirlYouNasty.comInstagram: @ewgirlyounasty

Wolf Baby

This week Katharyn and Meg talk about solutions to Katharyn's insomnia, a real life fire tornado, Japanese honeybee chefs, and the invention of the phonograph. Thanks for listening!   https://time.com/5063665/what-is-polyphasic-sleep/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-scientists-predict-fire-tornadoes/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/bizarre-bee-havior-in-the-battle-against-the-giant-hornet-129395782/https://www.loc.gov/collections/edison-company-motion-pictures-and-sound-recordings/articles-and-essays/history-of-edison-sound-recordings/history-of-the-cylinder-phonograph/    Follow The Pod!Instagram: @SomewhatScientificTwitter: @SomewhatScientificEmail us with any corrections at SomewhatScientificPod@gmail.com Follow Meghan:MeghanWalshComedy.comInstagram: @Diabeatz_Twitter: @Diabeatz Follow Katharyn:EwGirlYouNasty.comInstagram: @ewgirlyounasty

Fire Tornados Are an Actual Thing

Comedians Katharyn Henson (@ewgirlyounasty) and Meghan Walsh (@Diabeatz_) talk about current events in science as well as the science in their lives.

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