Probably Science

Probably Science
Presentation
Hosted by	Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen, and Jesse Case
Genre	Comedy, science
Language	English
Publication
Debut	January 21, 2012
Website	http://www.probablyscience.com/

Probably Science is a weekly updated comedy and science podcast which first aired on January 21, 2012. The show is co-hosted by Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen, and Jesse Case. Former co-host and founding member Brooks Wheelan having left the show in 2013 for personal reasons^[1] and has since returned as a guest. In Brooks's absence, Case, previously a guest, was brought on as a co-host.

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.

A wide range of guest have appeared in their episodes, including astronaut Chris Hadfield,^[2] comedian Chris Hardwick,^[3] Sean M. Carroll^[4] (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.^[5]^[6]

Notable mentions

Wired: Fun Podcasts for the Science-Minded^[7]

The A.V. Club^[8]

Splitsider: This week in Comedy podcast.^[9]

Episodes

Ep#	Guests	Topics ^[10]	Airdate
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 Rhea 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, & 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, & 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 dinosaurs wiped out a load of bees, Perthans, & 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, & 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, & 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

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