Geek Chic's Weird Science

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Sinopsis

An irreverent exploration of the latest bizarre, quirky and weird science news from award-winning podcast duo Lliana Bird & Dr Jack Lewis.iTunes Best New Podcast 2014. A perfect podcast for those that enjoy the lighter side of science (stuff like mind-controlled turtles, real vulcan telepathy and diamonds made from peanut butter) and for those that simply want to whip out a few impressive "did you knows".

Episodios

  • Episode 22: Language looking on the bright side of life, The Core and Robot Carers

    20/02/2015 Duración: 18min

    This week the team asks whether language always look on the bright side of life, are robot carers for the elderly actually a good idea and whether are geography teachers had it all wrong and the core of the Earth isnt what it seems.   @GCWeirdScience   #GeekChicWeirdScience

  • Episode 21: Valentines Day Special

    13/02/2015 Duración: 26min

    In this Valentines Day special, Dr Jack & Birdy answer questions about the science of love; what happens to us when we fall in love?  Does smell play a part in attraction?  Is monogamy against our human biology?  And is there a formula to love?   @GCWeirdScience   #GeekChicWeirdScience

  • Episode 20: Booze Special

    06/02/2015 Duración: 12min

    Lliana and Dr Jack discuss whether beer and red wine could actually be good for us.  Or could it possibly be just a ruse to make us feel better as Dry January comes to an end?   @GCWeirdScience   #GeekChicWeirdScience

  • Episode 19: The Science Of Rapping

    30/01/2015 Duración: 23min

    Special Guests Professor Heather Berlin and her husband rapper Baba Brinkman join Lliana Bird and Dr Jack Lewis this week to explain the science of freestyle rapping, and explore the wider ramifications for our understanding of creativity.   @GCWeirdScience   #GeekChicWeirdScience

  • Episode 18: Superhuman Special

    24/01/2015 Duración: 22min

    Geek Chic's Weird Science returns for 2015 with a Superhuman special and an exclusive interview with American neuroscientist & presenter of Discovery's 'Superhuman Showdown' Professor Heather Berlin.   @GCWeirdScience   #GeekChicsWeirdScience

  • Episode 17: 2014 A Year In Review

    16/12/2014 Duración: 38min

    In the final episode of 2014, Lliana Bird & Dr Jack Lewis take a look back at some of their favourite stories from the weird and wonderful world of science in 2014. A very happy christmas and a fantastic new year to all of our amazing listeners,  Love from the Geek Chic team. Geek Chic's Weird Science will return in 2015.  We'll see you next year!   @GCWeirdScience #GeekChicWeirdScience        

  • Episode 16: Paranormal Special - Where Science And Magic Meet

    05/12/2014 Duración: 38min

    A paranormal special with an exclusive interview with acclaimed parapsychologist and author Serena Roney-Dougal, as the Geek Chic team try to uncover whether science can ever back up claims of magic. Warning: Subliminal messages may be included.   @GCWeirdScience   #GeekChicWeirdScience    

  • Episode 15: Digital Animals, Atlantis and Slow Motion Dreams

    28/11/2014 Duración: 26min

    Do we dream in slow motion? Is the worlds first digital animal really alive? And is our future in an Atlantis style underwater city? Dr Jack & Birdy contemplate these latest developments from the world of science.   @GCWeirdScience #GeekChicWeirdScience

  • Episode 14: Woolly Mammoths, Smoking Solutions, Coffee Jolts and Water From Thin Air

    21/11/2014 Duración: 21min

    Woolly Mammoths, Smoking solution, water from thin air and electrocution as the new coffee?  Birdy and Dr Jack mull over this week's most intriguing science news.   @GCWeirdScience   #GeekChicWeirdScience

  • Episode 13: Peanut Butter diamonds, Bats, Video Games and Cyborgs

    14/11/2014 Duración: 18min

    This week Lliana Bird and Dr Jack Lewis look at how peanut butter can be made into diamonds, how bats are screwing each other over, how action video games may actually make you smarter, and the story and problems of a real life cyborg! (News Clips From Sky News)   @GCweirdscience     #GeekChicWeirdScience

  • Episode 12: Underwater breathing, Magic Mushrooms and The perfect murder

    07/11/2014 Duración: 19min

    Lliana Bird and Dr Jack Lewis look at how crystals could hold the key to underwater breathing, magic mushrooms and how to foil the perfect murder. @GCweirdscience #GeekChicWeirdScience  

  • Episode 11: Halloween special: An interview with a real witch, a zombie expert, & can you really die of fright?

    31/10/2014 Duración: 53min

    Trick? Or Treat?   It's that time of year again, and it is definately a real treat in store this week in this very special feature length episode of geek chic's weird science in honour of all hallows eve.     Join Lliana Bird and Dr Jack Lewis as they go into darkness and look into the science of fear and whether or not it is possible to die of fright.  They chat to a zombie expert and have some halloween fun with a real life witch, and finally look into ways that we can use our leftover pumpkins.   Happy Halloween from the Geek Chic team! x   @GCweirdscience   #GeekChicWeirdScience

  • Episode 10: A cure for paralysis? Tractor beams, Hover boards and a pasta parable

    24/10/2014 Duración: 19min

    Miracles, birds on Prozac, skinny pasta & Great Scott! A hoverboard! The geek chic team get to the root of the weeks most exciting scientific news.   @gcweirdscience #GeekChicWeirdScience

  • Episode 9: Nobel Prize Special

    17/10/2014 Duración: 21min

    In what is a very special Geek Chic, Birdie and Dr Jack find out what's new in the world of Brain GPS since it was discovered by UCL's Nobel Prize winning Prof John O'Keefe in 1971.   @GCWeirdScience #GeekChicWeirdScience

  • Episode 8: Free Willy talks to Flipper, growing a penis and life after death

    10/10/2014 Duración: 20min

    This week Birdy and Dr Jack talk lab grown penises, life after death and killer whales who 'speak' to dolphins... Twitter: @GCweirdscience #GeekChicWeirdScience

  • Episode 7: Teleportation Special

    06/10/2014 Duración: 20min

    The Geek Chic team get to the root of the latest teleportation developments hitting the headlines with an exclusive interview with the leading expert Professor Nicholas Gisin from the University of Geneva, who has been studying quantum teleportation for over 40 years. Beam me up Scotty! @GCweirdscience   #GeekChicWeirdScience

  • Episode 6: The 3 C's - Coffee, Chimps & Comets

    03/10/2014 Duración: 21min

    Should coffee drinkers be freaking out about an impending coffee crisis? Have chimps gone cultural? And why is a robot being dropped onto a comet? Dr Jack & Birdy dissect the week's most interesting science news.   Twitter: @GCweirdscience #GeekChicWeirdScience

  • Episode 5: Invisibility Cloaks, Teleportation Conundrum & Banana Peels

    26/09/2014 Duración: 13min

    Are we one step closer to teleportation?  Are invisibility cloaks possible?  Does staying up later mean you're a psychopath?  Are comedy banana peel slip ups based on genuine science?  Dr Jack & Birdy mull over this weeks news from the world of science...   Got a question? hit us up at llianabird@gmail.com   Enjoy x

  • Episode 4: Crisp packets saving lives, social media brain reshaping, memory wiping

    23/09/2014 Duración: 17min

    Episode 4 of Geek Chic sees Dr Jack & Birdy dissect the quirkiest science news: why crisp packets can save lives, how social media is reshaping our brains & why Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind style memory wiping IS a possibilty Got a question? Submit to llianabird@gmail.com Presented by: Lliana Bird & Dr Jack LewisProduced by: Richard Boffin

  • Episode 3: Jack the ripper special

    23/09/2014 Duración: 22min

    A Geek Chic 20 minute special exploring this week's big news that Jack The Ripper has finally been identified....or has he? Lliana Bird and Dr Jack Lewis exclusively interview the man who made the discovery, scientist Dr Jari Louhelainen, and find out whether this 120 year old mystery has really been solved once and for all.   Got a question you're dying to know the answer to?  Submit it to Llianabird@gmail.com

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