Artificial intelligence researcher and UC Berkeley Professor of Computer Science Dr. Stuart Russell joins Andy to talk about his new book Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control , which explores the concept of intelligence in humans and machines, what the benefits and drawbacks of creating superhuman intelligence are, and what AI researchers can do now to help usher in a future that's more utopian than dystopian....
Oct 31, 2019•1 hr 1 min
Comedian-turned-writer Daniel Dominguez joins Matt and Andy to talk about his new animated Netflix series Seis Manos , Nobel Prize announcements in physics , medicine and chemistry , Ursula K. Le Guin , people with Goodenough names and implanting false memories in birds . This episode is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus , offering Probably Science listeners a free month of unlimited access to thousands of lectures by visiting TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/probably...
Oct 23, 2019•1 hr 9 min
Comedian Troy Walker ( @troywalkeresq ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss erector sets , owl pellets, scientists growing tooth enamel , aspen sunscreen , a Milky Way explosion , Dr. Magma , too many wallabies , university ripoffs and antibiotic resistance . This episode is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus , offering Probably Science listeners a free month of unlimited access to thousands of lectures by visiting TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/probably...
Oct 16, 2019•1 hr 24 min
Comedian Matt Monroe ( @heymonroe ) joins Andy and Matt to discuss retirement community shows, Sandler on Netflix, the Salton Sea , the toilet water scale , Terence Howard science , lizard womb babies , lady rabbit orgasms , Sarah Morgan's web series , a tooth bird fossil , Matt Monro and Born Free ....
Oct 09, 2019•1 hr 19 min
Comedian Nick Turner ( @NicksTurners ) returns to the show seven years after his last appearance to talk about his podcasts Get Rich Nick and Recently Added , walking dogs, very slow zombies , a herpes vaccine , fun math with 3s , a new blackest black , Instant Hotel, cooking with ostrich eggs , Instant Hotel, Fastest Car and Hyperdrive, spiders flying with electricity and a play with a very controversial name. This episode is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus , offering Probably Science ...
Sep 24, 2019•1 hr 16 min
PhD-having comedian Ria Lina ( @rialina_ ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about bioinformatics, her research in viruses, specifically the herpes family of viruses, predicting this year's flu, the definition of life, the other kind of beach bodies, pathology, terrorism hypotheticals, herd immunity, viral ontology and Ria's ukulele song for Alabama . This episode is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus , offering Probably Science listeners a free month of unlimited access to thousands of lectures...
Sep 19, 2019•1 hr 22 min
Comedian Nick Vatterott ( @vatterott ) of the new podcast Get Rich Nick joins Andy and Matt to discuss trivia, trypophobia , obscenity trials , mouthwash vs. exercise , vape deaths , Stackenblocken , a skull discovery , Lucy and whether there is a gay gene ....
Sep 13, 2019•1 hr 25 min
Cartoonist/author/engineer Randall Munroe of the Hugo Award-winning webcomic xkcd joins Matt and Andy to talk about his new book How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems , in which he gives novel, ridiculous and technically correct tips on doing everything from digging a hole to winning an election. You can catch Randall in person on his book tour running through September 19th ....
Sep 05, 2019•41 min
Comedians Chris Martin ( @ChrisMcomedy ) and Hanna Stanbridge ( @HannaStanbridge ) join Andy and Matt to talk about our Wired video , soap on a rope, some scientist listeners’ corrections, burp-free cows and seaweed , July being the hottest month ever , how tongue rolling isn’t fully genetic , vaccine-delivering Congo drones , asparagus pee, boney boners , Will Smith’s penis, water-powered space craft and peeing in space . This episode is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus , offering Proba...
Aug 29, 2019•1 hr 11 min
Actor/director Pollyanna McIntosh ( @PollyAMcIntosh ) of The Walking Dead, Lodge 49 and her directorial debut Darlin' joins Matt and Andy to discuss Dennis dentists, human-sized penguins , gay penguins with an egg , an ebola cure , good environmental news , bad environmental news and tails for old people . This episode is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus , offering Probably Science listeners a free month of unlimited access to thousands of lectures by visiting TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/pro...
Aug 22, 2019•1 hr 3 min
Comedian Joyelle Johnson ( @joyellenicole ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about doctor rules, chlamydia vaccines , AI that can spot bad food , our surprisingly old moon and an excellent Fidel Castro conspiracy theory ....
Aug 19, 2019•47 min
Comedian Jordan Doll ( @razorlou ) joins Andy and Matt to discuss old UK comedy, field archaeology, being a shovel bum, King Arthur’s various swords, massive parrots , the periodic table of Jeopardy! , tardigrades on the moon , disinfecting Mars, water-filtering wood , toxic Paris , Maya Angelou ads , problematic pics and The Mechanical Turk . This episode is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus , offering Probably Science listeners a free month of unlimited access to thousands of lectures b...
Aug 12, 2019•1 hr 21 min
Comedian KT Tatara ( @kttatara ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about a CRISPR sickle cell cure , a mysterious radiation leak linked to Russia , Mr. Wizard , Bob Lazar and UFOs and bees' sense of the electric fields of flowers . This episode is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus , offering Probably Science listeners a free month of unlimited access to thousands of lectures by visiting TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/probably...
Aug 02, 2019•1 hr 2 min
Comedian Francisco Ramos ( @FranciscoRamos ) joins Andy and Matt to discuss thermos technology, socialism, whether canned laughter works , an asteroid close call , quantum teleportation and an HIV cure for mice ....
Jul 28, 2019•1 hr 3 min
Comedian and recent Portland transplant Caitlin Weierhauser ( @UncleCait ) joins returning guest TJ Chambers ( @tjchambersLA ) to talk about the surprisingly extensive history of McDonaldland characters , how dogs' eyes evolved to appeal to humans , a notably droopy dog breed , a recently scrapped Indian space mission , female jockeys being underestimated by the betting public , a recent study critical of psychiatric diagnosis and a magical island where the koalas are free of chlamydia . This ep...
Jul 17, 2019•1 hr 6 min
Jacob Margolis ( @JacobMargolis ), KPCC science reporter and host of the podcast The Big One , talks with Andy about the two recent major California earthquakes, what they mean for those living on nearby faultlines, what to do to prepare yourself for future quakes , FEMA's earthquake safety checklist , Jacob's supply shopping list and and his podcast detailing the repercussions of a hypothetical catastrophic earthquake in Los Angeles . This episode is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus , o...
Jul 11, 2019•52 min
Population geneticist Dr. Alex Platt joins Matt and Andy to discuss the complex world of genetics and its role in shaping humans the world over, also dealing with the many misconceptions and blind spots people have about genetic diversity and the history of the human species.
Jul 04, 2019•1 hr 8 min
Actress/writer Susy Kane ( @kusysane ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about Stan & Ollie , eating a credit card's mass in plastic , a dubious claim about plastic straws , Canada's plastic ban , ISS tourism , InSight news , ladybug swarms and pterodactyls flying from birth ....
Jun 24, 2019•46 min
Comedian Bri Pruett ( @bripruett ) joins Andy and Matt to discuss the invisible world, witchy things, a mosquito-killing GM fungus , saving the wasps , anxiety and gut bacteria , making kombucha, real plastic recycling and the resilience of tardigrades . See Matt in NYC next week . This episode is brought to you by Green Chef. For $75 off your first three orders, visit greenchef.us/psp75 . Come and see Matt in NY next week!...
Jun 12, 2019•1 hr 31 min
Comedian Ismo Leikola ( @ISMOcomedy ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about Finland, language family trees, university physics, snails, LIGO news , a giant Australian meteor , chimps cracking open tortoises , generating power on ships and the fact that Ismo is the first thing that comes up when you do a video search for "ass."...
Jun 05, 2019•1 hr 22 min
Comedian Michelle Biloon ( @biloon ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about RFK's assassination, credit card rules, Michelle’s coding past, more cocaine in British sealife , living with MS, how kidney donor chains work and drones delivering organs ....
May 16, 2019•1 hr 21 min
Comedian Tommy Johnagin ( @tommyjohnagin ) joins Matt and Andy to discuss Last Comic Standing, finding your passion , why farts are funny, Marsquakes , crazy expensive houses, soil damage fueling climate change and a few ships polluting more than millions of cars....
May 08, 2019•1 hr 16 min
Zach Reino ( @zachreino ), actor/writer/host of the improvised musical podcast Off Book , joins Matt and Andy to discuss ancient Chinese medicine’s surprisingly recent history , Germany’s weird Chinese tradition , Arthur C. Clarke’s three laws , reactivating dead pigs’ brains , a brain implant that produces speech , HIV curing a bubble boy , why vitamins from pills don’t work and the Galileo Fallacy ....
Apr 25, 2019•1 hr 10 min
Comedian Dave Waite ( @davewaitecomedy ) joins Matt and Andy to talk about khaki diaper butt , geography pride, a black hole image , the video Janna sent about said black hole , world records for rabbit fur and big pizzas , Stonehenge builders , measles and chicken pox and smiling ....
Apr 17, 2019•1 hr 22 min
Comedian Doug Mellard ( @dougmellard ) joins Andy and Matt to talk about All Space Considered , asteroid fossils , the Thatcher Effect , upside-down viewing , Tom Cruise's middle tooth , Catalina, earthquake prep podcasts , octopus attacks and octopus wrestling , the rules of kabaddi , eye bees , a four-legged whale fossil , Matt and Andy becoming parasite-famous , a Japanese bomb on an asteroid and India fucking up space ....
Apr 11, 2019•1 hr 13 min
Writer/comedian friend of the show Nick Doody ( @NickDoody ) returns to discuss linguistics, space herpes , atoms and the strong force, the reason for zebra stripes or maybe not , a physics theory as to why time flies more as we age , the first female Abel prize winner , famous Norwegians, lady strokes from lady strokes , the Citizens of Nowhere podcast and Bigipedia ....
Apr 03, 2019•1 hr 35 min
Returning guests Sarah Morgan ( @sarahlmorgan ) and Brendon Burns ( @brendonburns ) join Matt and Andy to talk about air travel, SpaceX’s new not-quite-manned flight , monkey peril, the Mars mission that may not be, rare semi-identical twins and a lot of talk about Brendon’s stonefish encounter . Listen to Brendon’s Dumb White Guy podcast and Sarah’s show The Fear ....
Mar 27, 2019•1 hr 38 min
Cannabis educator Emma Chasen ( @echasen ) and comedian Marcus Coleman ( @MrMarcusColeman ) join Matt and Andy for a live show in Portland as part of the Listen Up! festival, discussing the complex science of the effects of cannabis, the difficulties in researching it, and the many hard-to-dispell myths surrounding it....
Mar 21, 2019•1 hr 11 min
The final stop of the Probably Science Australia tour brings Andy and Matt to Melbourne on Valentine’s Day, where they welcome Sheree Marris ( @shereemarris ), author of Kama SEAtra , and returning guest Wil Anderson ( @Wil_Anderson ) to discuss the sex lives of aquatic creatures, male seahorses who birth thousands of babies, necking sea slugs, barnacle penises, cross-dressing cuttlefish and the fact that the city of of Melbourne was almost called Batmania. This episode is brought to you thanks ...
Mar 14, 2019•1 hr 9 min
Andy and Matt welcome comedian Liz Miele ( @lizmiele ) and astrophysicist/software engineer Samuel Hinton ( @samreay ) to the stage in Brisbane to talk about Brewsvegas pool parties , Australia's most retweeted tweet , the fun of e-scooters, lax Australian airport security, the various ways Matt has broken teeth, dyslexic comedians, Liz's veterinarian parents, resume padding, being on Australian Survivor , dark matter and dark energy, proving Einstein right time after time, criticism of LIGO dat...
Mar 06, 2019•1 hr 21 min
