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    Science

    Let’s Learn Everything!

    Science communicators Ella Hubber, Tom Lum, and Caroline Roper learn about anything and everything interesting! Each episode they teach each other about a science topic, and learn about a miscellaneous topic. Whether it’s bugs on drugs, temporal illusions, or fanfiction, there’s so much out there, so let’s learn everything! Join our Discord, email us, and follow us everywhere at www.LetsLearnEverything.com

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    Copyright: © Tom Lum, Caroline Roper, and Ella Hubber

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    Latest Episodes:
    7: End of Year Q&A 2021 Dec 30, 2021
    Show notes

    Today we learn about the most interesting topic of all: each other! How did we get into our science fields, and how did we meet? What's our favorite science fact to tell at parties? What advice do we have for aspiring creators?

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    We also learn about: our science origin stories, Tom used to be a theatre kid, Tom’s first podcast, our first TikToks, we’re on a first name basis with Hank, how we met, that time we all freaky friday’d, Ella DESPISED Tom, really long fly sperm, clinical fun fact trials, the immortal jellyfish, hermissenda, moths, Interstellar, The Martian, Demon Slayer, Edge of Tomorrow, advice on getting started on TikTok, Bill Nye could never, The Mower, MMM Honey! and nightmares.

    Videos we Mention:

    Caroline’s First Science TikTok

    Tom's First TikTok

    Ella's First Big TikTok

    Caroline's Bloodwood Tree Video

    Ella's Science Speedrun Video

    Tom's RGB Video

    Hank & John's Video about Having Each Other

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    6: Genetic Chimeras, Judas Goats, and Toys Dec 16, 2021
    Show notes

    On a surprisingly deep holiday episode, we ask, what is a genetic chimera, could it save lives, and is it moral? What are Judas Goats, and what are the challenges faced in conservation? And most importantly, what were the first toys in history and what were our favorite toys?

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    We also learn about: Why are mythological chimeras all ladies? a Tom/Joe chimera, “It was very dissapointing”, “I expect better evidence”, a Judas Kiss, goats are weird, helicopter tattoos, ring-necked parakeets, relocating hedgehogs, would you download a goat? Helping other human beings, what a concept! Tom’s yo-yo tricks, children existed! the earliest toys, Ella’s duel disk, tamagotchis, and the future of toys.

    Sources:

    Chimeras in Mythology

    Human Chimeras That Already Exist

    Interspecies Organogenesis Generates Autologous Functional Islet

    Interspecies Chimerism with Mammalian Pluripotent Stem Cells

    Human–animal chimeras: ethical issues about farming chimeric animals bearing human organs

    Feral Goat Eradications on Galapagos

    Galapagos Goat Eradication

    Galapagos Project Isabella

    Galapagos Judas Goats

    Vegetation and Animal Recovery on Galapagos

    Galapagos Invasive Species

    Is it Ritual? or is it Children?

    Split Twig Observations and Carbon Dating

    Ancient Hedgehog Cart (via @trashbandikoot on tiktok)

    Business Insider Toy List

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    5: The History of Pregnancy Tests, The Middlest Size, and FanFiction Dec 02, 2021
    Show notes

    When was the first pregnancy test? If we know the biggest and smallest sizes in the universe, what is the middlest size? What's the deal with fanfiction?

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    We also learn about: Comedy!, piss prophets, we should know better that science is weird, “Looks like the frog’s ovulating!”, we are in the middle of history, what even is an object, the centi-sand, don't fudge significant figures, Dante’s Self Insert RPF, we get carried away playing the fanfiction pairing game.

    Sources:

    Pee is for pregnant: The history and science of urine-based pregnancy tests

    Ancient Egyptian Pregnancy Tests

    Effects of Hormones on Barley Leaves

    Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG)

    The Long Gestation of the Modern Home Pregnancy Test

    Kevin Kelly NYTimes Review

    Solar System Ratio Calculation

    Middlest Size Calculation

    Fanfiction.net

    AO3

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    4: Randomness, What Happens Without Sleep, and Stardew Valley Nov 18, 2021
    Show notes

    What are the uses of randomness, and how do we even get it? What happens to your body when you don't sleep? And is Stardew Valley secretly... a horror game?

    Links we Discuss:

    Infinite Monkey Theorem Results

    The Hollow Mask Illusion

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    We also learn about: Ella making random noises, chiptune drums, dice fanfiction, the infinite monkey grant, gggggggggggggg, everyone guesses 7 and picks Rock, a very funny joke for our particle physicist listeners, a million random digits, minecraft seeds, the Russian sleep experiment creepypasta, sleep themed band names, the optimal nap, do the dip kids! Maureen the rocking chair champion, um actually it’s called Apophenia, tetris fanfiction, and ludo narrative disonance.

    Sources:

    Humans Cannot Consciously Generate Random Number Sequences

    The Predominance Of Seven And The Apparent Spontaneity Of Numerical Choices

    Hannah Fry on Rock Paper Scissors

    Winning at Rock Paper Scissors

    Rock Paper Scissors Strategy

    Hot Hand Fallacy and Gambler's Fallacy

    How the Mind Works

    Galton Discussing Dice for Statistical Experiments

    LHC Tippet and the Random Number Table

    A Million Random Digits

    Radiation is Random

    Modern Nuclear Chemistry

    Sleep Deprivation

    Sleep Stages

    Sleep Debt

    Obesity and Sleep Deprivation

    Part 2

    Cardiovascular Health and Sleep Deprivation

    Microsleep

    Hallucinations

    Rat Sleep Deprivation Study

    Fatal Familial Insomnia

    Fatal Familial Insomnia Stories

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    3: Mind Controlling Parasites, Are Elephants Right Handed, and Naruto AMVs Nov 04, 2021
    Show notes

    How do mind controlling (or rather, behavior controlling) parasites work? Are elephants right or left handed? And what is so great about Naruto Bohemian Rhapsody AMVs?

    Read Tom's essay on Tor.com!

    Get tickets to Ella's science comedy show!

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    We also learn about: being cancelled by ants, Ella tries to pronounce latin names, bugs losing their butts, the parasite of the day, thanks for the parasites Charlie! Phylogenetic Inirtia, I DON’T OWN QUEEN OR NARUTO I DONT OWN ANYTHING, and Torchwood X Florence & The Machine fanvids!

    Sources:

    Mind Control: How Parasites Manipulate Cognitive Functions in Their Insect Hosts

    Ophiocordyceps unilateralis

    How a parasitic fungus turns ants into zombies

    A specialized fungal parasite

    This Parasite Drugs Its Hosts With the Psychedelic Chemical in Shrooms

    Parasites brainwash grasshoppers into death dive

    How does rabies cause aggression?

    Rabies virus modifies host behaviour through a snake-toxin

    Parasite makes mice lose fear of cats permanently

    Brain parasite may strip away rodents' fear of predators, not just of cats

    Parasites - Toxoplasmosis

    Right or Left: Elephant calves pick their trunk handedness early on in life

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    2: Spooky Frogs, The Most Bones, and Witch Hunts Oct 21, 2021
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    On this SpoOoOoky Halloween episode we learn about a slew of truly spooky frogs, investigate which animal has the most bones, and see how capitalism may have led to the rise of witch hunts!

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    We also learn about: fluorescence, dinosaur eating frogs (technically), CAN A SPIDER EAT A DINOSAUR??? (NOT CLICKBAIT), frog shazam, Ella learns to love the Freddy Krueger Frog, wishing you a happy bones day, evo-devo, deregionalization, how would antlers wear pants?, the origin of gossip, down with capitalism!

    Sources:

    Horror frog breaks own bones to produce claws

    Frogs with Claws, Frogs with Hair

    Vampire Flying Frog

    New pumpkin toadlet species found

    How the Newly Discovered, Mud-Loving ‘Zombie’ Frog Got Its Name

    The Freddy Krueger Frog

    Freddy Krueger Frog Audio

    Freddy Krueger Frog Video

    Devil Frog

    Vampire Squid

    Skeletal Structure, University of Idaho

    Skeleton, Postcranial, Rommel & Reynolds

    New Bedford Whaling Museum

    Axial patterning in snakes and caecilians, Woltering et al.

    Florida Museum

    From Lizard to Snake; Behind the Evolution of an Extreme Body Plan, Woltering

    Witches, Witch-Hunting and Women, Sylvia Federici

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    1: Time Illusions, Electric Bees, and Fakespeares Oct 07, 2021
    Show notes

    What does a time illusion look like? Why are bees electrically charged? Who is the real Shakespeare?

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    We also learn about: Yanney and Laurel, bad science magic tricks, Carly Rae Jepsen's seminal hit Call Me Maybe, Temporal Odor Mixtures, how many bees are in a bolt of lightning, The Flower Dome, fake flowers and fake bees, the flat moon theory, and the Voldemort Codex.

    Sources:

    Dixon, N. F., & Spitz, L. (1980). The detection of auditory visual desynchrony. Perception, 9(6), 719–721. https://doi.org/10.1068/p090719

    Stratton, G. M. (1896). Some preliminary experiments on vision without inversion of the retinal image. Psychological Review, 3(6), 611–617. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0072918

    Stratton, G. M. (1896). Some preliminary experiments on vision without inversion of the retinal image. Psychological Review, 3(6), 611–617. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0072918

    Cunningham, D., Billock, V., & Tsou, B. (2001). Sensorimotor Adaptation to Violations of Temporal Contiguity. Psychological Science, 12, 532 - 535. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9280.d01-17

    Alais, D., Carlile, S., (2005). Synchronizing to real events: Subjective audiovisual alignment scales with perceived auditory depth and speed of sound. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102(6), 2244-2247. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0407034102

    Stetson, C., Cui, X., Montague P.R., Eagleman, D.M., (2006). Motor-Sensory Recalibration Leads to an Illusory Reversal of Action and Sensation. Neuron, 51(5), 651-659. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2006.08.006.

    Perl O, Nahum N, Belelovsky K, Haddad R. The contribution of temporal coding to odor coding and odor perception in humans. Elife. 2020;9:e49734. Published 2020 Feb 7. https://doi.org/10.7554%2FeLife.49734

    Montgomery, C., Vuts, J., Woodcock, C.M. et al. Bumblebee electric charge stimulates floral volatile emissions in Petunia integrifolia but not in Antirrhinum majus. Sci Nat 108, 44 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-021-01740-2

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    Trailer: Let's Learn Everything! Oct 04, 2021
    Show notes

    Science communicators Ella Hubber, Tom Lum, and Caroline Roper share anything and everything interesting! Each episode they teach each other about a science topic, answer a question, and learn about a miscellaneous topic. Whether it's bugs on drugs, temporal illusions, or reality tv, there's so much out there, so let's learn everything!

    Join our Discord, message us, and follow us everywhere at

    https://www.LetsLearnEverythingPod.com/

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