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The Science Jerks: Real Science, Real Comedians, Real FunnyunavailableArchive

Publisher |: Boardwalk Audio

Media Type |: audio

Podknife tags |: Comedy,; Science & Medicine

Categories Via RSS |: Comedy,; Science & Medicine

Scientifically speaking the funniest podcast on the internet [citation needed]. On every episode of The Science Jerks, co-hosts Ciaccio and Chan bring in a guest comedian to help them take a deep look at the cutting-edge world of science and technology. They analyze current science news with barely-researched, gleeful abandon, often diving recklessly off the philosophical deep end, but more often than not devolving into tangents about sci-fi, film, politics, comics, culture and music.

People |: Dave Ciaccio (@daveciaccio),; Robert Clarke-Chan (@999rpms)
Country Of Origin |: USA
Produced In |: Los Angeles, CA
Frequency |: Biweekly
Explicit |: Yes

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0 Available Episodes (98 Total) / Average duration: 01:04:54

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0 Available Episodes (98 Total)Average duration: 01:04:54

Dec 31, 2017

01:18:53

Just Chan and Dave this week, as we greet Chan's new baby, Egon, and talk about the future of the show. Please stay tuned for our new show format coming soon!

Gravity measured

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/neutron-star-collision-gravitational-waves

IQ and Anxiety

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bad-news-for-the-highly-intelligent/

BREATHATARIANS DO EXIST

http://www.newsweek.com/bizarre-antarctic-bacteria-live-air-alone-could-show-exactly-how-alien-life-742631

CASTLE IN THE SKY

http://bigthink.com/robby-berman/the-earths-first-self-declared-space-kingdom-is-orbiting-overhead

The Science Jerks (@thesciencejerks) is hosted by Dave Ciaccio (@daveciaccio) and Robert Chan (@999rpms) and produced by Stephen Perlstein (@perlstein) for the Boardwalk Audio Network (@boardwalkaudio). Find us at http://sciencejerks.com and http://boardwalkaudio.com/sciencejerks. Email us at heyjerks@sciencejerks.com. Subscribe for free on Stitcher or iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/science-jerks-real-science/id578684997

Oct 26, 2017

01:21:27

Comedian Erik Barnes (@ErikWBarnes) joins us to talk about the new political push to go to the moon, an attempt to pick out psychopaths by music tastes and how duck penises respond to a drake's position in society.

Don't Fall on the Moon

https://www.popsci.com/astronaut-hurt-moon-rescue#page-3

MINORITY REPORT IS COMING

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/26/playlist-of-the-lambs-psychopaths-prefer-rap-over-classical-music-study-shows

sexual-orientation-study.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/science/stanford-sexual-orientation-study.html

Duck Penis Politics

https://www.popsci.com/duck-penis-social-pressure

Oct 19, 2017

01:06:18

Comedian Erik Barnes (@ErikWBarnes) joins us to talk about the impending crash to Earth of a disabled Chinese Space Station, how microdosing psilocybin, AKA magic mushrooms, has had positive results treating depression and anxiety, and a new type of camouflage that incorporates texture, much like the mighty octopus.

THIS IS GROUND CONTROL TO MAJOR TIANGONG

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/13/tiangong-1-chinese-space-station-will-crash-to-earth-within-months

Magic Mushroom Make you Magically Undepressed

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2150305-magic-mushroom-extract-changes-brains-of-people-with-depression/

STEALING CLOAKING TECHNOLOGY FROM THE KLINGO- ER, OCTOPUSES

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171012143313.htm

Sep 28, 2017

01:15:23

Filmmaker Winston Carter returns to talk about the controversial new method for cremating human remains with chemicals instead of fire, how many distinct emotions humans have and the ways in which humans are still evolving.

WRING OUT YOUR DEAD

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dissolve-the-dead-controversy-swirls-around-liquid-cremation/

WE'VE GOT EMOTION DOWN TO A SCIENCE

http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/09/06/27-emotions/

STILL EVOLVING AFTER ALL THESE YEARS

http://www.popsci.com/humans-are-still-evolving#page-2

Try Ciaccio's game "Space Captain Pinball" available now in the App Store for iPhone/iPad! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/space-captain-pinball/id1231668629

Sep 21, 2017

01:01:06

Filmmaker Winston Carter joins us to talk about a new technique to extend the lifespan of fruit flies, how amazingly good face detection algorithms have become and a way to turn skin cells into motor neurons.

WE'VE MADE FRUIT FLIES IMMORTAL

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-biologists-slow-aging-extend-lifespan-of-fruit-flies

BAD NEWS FOR INCOGNITO MOVIESTARS AND ANTIFA PROTESTORS

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2146703-even-a-mask-wont-hide-you-from-the-latest-face-recognition-tech/

TURNING SKIN INTO MOTOR NEURONS

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170907132836.htm

Try Ciaccio's game "Space Captain Pinball" available now in the App Store for iPhone/iPad! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/space-captain-pinball/id1231668629

Sep 15, 2017

01:08:31

Artist Nate Siggard (SkinMotion.com) returns to chat with us about how the Zika virus is being used to fight Cancer, what the new driverless car legislation means for the future of driving and how postpartum depression in new fathers can lower stress in mothers. Plus we talk about the biological roots of racism.

ZIKA CURES CANCER! SORT OF.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2146356-we-may-be-able-to-use-zika-virus-to-attack-brain-cancer-cells/

CONGRESS MIGHT DO SOMETHING RIGHT

https://www.wired.com/story/congress-self-driving-car-law-bill/

POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION IN DADS CAN BE GOOD FOR MOMS

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170905145535.htm

Check out the Skin Motion Augmented Reality Tattoo App for iPhone and Android in the Apple Store and on Google Play.

Try Ciaccio's game "Space Captain Pinball" available now in the App Store for iPhone/iPad! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/space-captain-pinball/id1231668629

Sep 07, 2017

01:03:28

Artist Nate Siggard (SkinMotion.com) joins us to talk about a possible collision of neutron stars found by the LIGO gravitational wave detector, how packs of wild dogs in Africa vote by sneezing, and how the city of Los Angeles is fighting warming by making white streets.

LIGO TRACKING BIGGEST EXPLOSION EVER RECORDED

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/rumors-swirl-ligo-snagged-gravitational-waves-neutron-star-collision?tgt=nr

AFRICA: BIRTHPLACE OF DEMOCRACY

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170905202954.htm

L.A. APPLYING SPF 1000000

http://www.popsci.com/la-is-painting-its-streets-white-to-keep-city-cool

Check out the Skin Motion Augmented Reality Tattoo App for iPhone and Android in the Apple Store and on Google Play.

Try Ciaccio's game "Space Captain Pinball" available now in the App Store for iPhone/iPad! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/space-captain-pinball/id1231668629

Aug 31, 2017

00:57:53

Gerard Dean Peters returns to talk to us about the recent discovery that there's way more Black Holes than we thought, the fact that marathon runners have a special runners' biome and what's the deal with roving jewelry. Plus we look into what Neil Armstrong or Buzz would have done if they had gotten stuck on the moon.

THERE'S SO MANY BLACK HOLES

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/we-share-milky-way-100-million-black-holes

CAN BACTERIA TURN YOU INTO AN ULTRAMARATHONER?

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170820075017.htm

LIVING JEWELRY IS LIKE BEING COVERED IN BUGS

https://curiosity.com/topics/project-kino-is-living-jewelry-that-moves-around-your-body-like-an-insect-curiosity?utm_source=iosapp

Try Ciaccio's game "Space Captain Pinball" available now in the App Store for iPhone/iPad! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/space-captain-pinball/id1231668629

Aug 24, 2017

01:06:23

Comedian Gerard Dean Peters stops by to help us take a look at some near-Earth Asteroids headed our way, what we should be doing to fight super-volcanoes and why speaking in your non-native language helps you to be more logical, and less emotional.

EARTH GRAZIN'

expected-to-skim-past-earth-in-october.htm">http://www.techtimes.com/articles/212546/20170812/asteroid-expected-to-skim-past-earth-in-october.htm

near-earth-asteroid-to-safely-zoom-past-the-planet-on-sept-1.htm">http://www.techtimes.com/articles/212740/20170819/large-near-earth-asteroid-to-safely-zoom-past-the-planet-on-sept-1.htm

TAPPING SUPER-VOLCANOES

greater-threat-than-asteroids-earths-20-known-supervolcanoes-erupt-once-every-100000-years.html">http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2017/08/a-greater-threat-than-asteroids-earths-20-known-supervolcanoes-erupt-once-every-100000-years.html

FOREIGNER LANGUAGES MAKE YOU MORE LOGICAL (or MAKE THE PRESIDENT SPEAK SPANISH!)

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170817141717.htm

Try Ciaccio's game "Space Captain Pinball" available now in the App Store for iPhone/iPad! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/space-captain-pinball/id1231668629

Aug 17, 2017

01:02:48

Miles Roberts (@milesboberts) returns to talk about what it means that two artificial intelligence robots learned their own language, why Ebola RNA is still showing up in survivors semen and how the "Third Space" of Augmented Reality is already selling adspace.

A.I. APOCALYPSE

http://www.snopes.com/facebook-ai-developed-own-language/

HELP! THERE'S EBOLA IN MY JIZZ!

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170802152532.htm

AR ADS ARE EVERYWHERE!

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2142857-augmented-reality-graffiti-will-lead-to-advertising-ambush-wars/

Try Ciaccio's game "Space Captain Pinball" available now in the App Store for iPhone/iPad! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/space-captain-pinball/id1231668629

Dec 31 | 01:18:53

245: Gravity, IQ, Governance and Change

Oct 26 | 01:21:27

244: Erik Barnes on A Trip To The Moon, Minority Reporting with Music and the Social Pressures of Duck Penises

Oct 19 | 01:06:18

243: Erik Barnes on Falling Chinese Space Stations, Psychedelic Depression Treatments and Texture Camouflage

Sep 28 | 01:15:23

242: Winston Carter on Liquid Cremation, Enumerating Emotions and The Persistence of Human Evolution

Sep 21 | 01:01:06

241: Winston Carter on Immortal Fruit Flies, Amazing/Terrifying Face Detection and Skin Cell Transmutation

Sep 15 | 01:08:31

240: Nate Siggard on Zika Killing Cancer, The SELF-DRIVE Act and Postpartum Depression in Men

Sep 07 | 01:03:28

239: Nate Siggard on Neutron Star Collisions, Democratic Dogs and Heat-Resistant Streets

Aug 31 | 00:57:53

238: Gerard Dean Peters on Millions of Black Holes, Marathon Microbes and Mobile Jewelry

Aug 24 | 01:06:23

237: Gerard Dean Peters on Asteroid Fly-Bys, Super-Volcano Solutions and Language Ethics

Aug 17 | 01:02:48

236: Miles Roberts on The A.I. Apocalypse, Ebola Semen and Augmented Reality Ads

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