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The Sub Standard Model
E4: Stringy Hybrid Moths
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- Why is Henry so excited about ball-and-string saliva?
- What does Parkinson's smell like?
- What's up with frog sex these days?
- What's up with fish sex these days and why is it so bad?
- What's up with moth sex these days?
- Why are human beings so smart?
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E1: Cheesy Spider Botox
01:23:31|How can Botox kill you?Why can kitchen sponges make things dirtier?How can you use dead spiders as tweezers?Can bacteria wear chainmail?What's the deal with those mites on your face, and why don't they have an anus?How can boa constrictors constrict their prey without suffocating themselves?Why are Nachos called Nachos?Why is bread more crunchy than bread dough?How can we stop ice cream from becoming too grainy?Why does ice melt into different shapes depending on the water temperature it is in?
E2: Domesticated Jellybean Meteors
01:11:09|Why do we hiccup?How the heck does a wolf completely transform into a pug in a few thousand years?How can we force clouds to rain in a drought?Why do some male Kangaroos have pouches?How were we mugged?Why should you not hold in your farts?How can 10 meteors land in every square meter every year?Why has the Great Barrier Reef gotten better recently despite climate change?
E3: Radio-Frequency Mosquito Saliva
01:19:17|Why does owning a cat significantly increase your chances of dying in a motorcycle accident (is it due to a protocist infection)??Why is your lip skin different from the rest of your skin?Sorry, how many people did that mosquito kill?What are those scanners at the shop entrance?Why don't deers, dogs and cats have periods?Why do people make bird's nest soup?How fast is a hummingbird?What bird leads you to honey and why would it do that?
E5: Super Quantum Jugs
47:20|Room temperature superconductors have been made?! NOT (DRAMA)How can plant jugs maximize the number of ants they eat?How can liquid rock rupture to create earthquakes?
E6: Conscious Fish Bowls
53:25|Sam beautifully wraps up a 4-year quest of his to understand quantum consciousness, or so he wishes...Why did someone build a hunger-games-esque dome in the middle of Oracle Arizona?
E7: Cosmic Urinal Corn
01:17:08|How do I know if my Tesco whisky is good?What's the fastest a piece of matter has ever been recorded to travel?Why do nuclear reactors glow blue?Why am I so aroused by Mexican corn?Why are my eyes bad in space?How do I stop accidentally covering myself in pee?Is Henry really Scottish?(!)
E8: Parametrically Curved Orthodoxes
42:05|Sam and Henry discuss time travel and the bootstrap paradox.Before promptly descending into pure chaos as we seek to evaluate many of nature's greatest paradoxes.They aren't that confusing right?
E9: Glass Laser Bells
01:19:15|Why has Bell's inequality led to the most profound discovery in modern physics?How do LASERs work?What are sea squirts/porks/cucumbers/grapes?Has Sam found a new henge?