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Surendra Adhikari and the melting Milankovitch cycles. Jun 07, 2016

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Don't believe the hype! The's a big difference between an ice sheet and sea ice. And the movement can actually move the axis of the Earth herself! To explain which is which, Dr. Surendra Adhikari from JPL/Caltech tells Kevin, Jimmy, and Owen the difference. Using a NASA satellite, Dr. Adhikari, tells how he made his measurements that grabbed social media's attention last week. Since Jimmy's back from Boston after hanging with real life heroes, he tell the guys about the trip.

Jessie Christiansen and the hedonic treadmill of planets. May 13, 2016

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These days you can't impress people with discovering just one or three measly exoplanets. You have to announce 1284 at once! Owen Benjamin returns to meet up with Griff, Kevin and alien planet hunter Dr. Jessie Christiansen to talk about new data from the Kepler space telescope.

Utkarsh Mittal and the three minute thesis. May 12, 2016

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(Dr!)Utkarsh Mital is a VERY recent PhD graduate. In fact, Kevin, Griff and guest co-host Erin Darling had to move the recording until after his defense. Mittal isn't just an engineer, he's an actor, has a role in "PHD Movie 2", and won the People's Choice Award for the Three Minute Thesis competition.

Maz Jobrani and the translated earphone jokes. May 03, 2016

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Maz Jobrani joins Kevin and Griff at the Hollywood Improv to talk about his hilarious new movie "Jimmy Vestvood: An American Hero" starting Maz himself, coming out to select theaters May 13th. Things get serious on SYJ, when delving into war and peace, Iranian-American relations, the nuclear arms deal, and the time Maz almost got kidnapped in Lebanon.

Sean Carroll, Erin Darling and the eternal godly poem. May 01, 2016

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Sean Carroll, professor of theoretical physics, tells Kevin, Griff, and guest co-host comedian Erin Darling about The Big Picture, his new book, but also his outlook on, well, the big picture: God, Life, The Universe, i.e. the light stuff. The conversation wanders towards eternal life, mirror molecules, the career perils of writing books, how you get introduced once you've been on The Colbert Report.

Alan Alda and the dance music going backward in time. Apr 03, 2016

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The absolute legendary actor, comedian, director, author, and oh so much more, Prof. Alan Alda, returns to Caltech to talk about his new online streaming melodrama "Horace and Pete" with Louis C. K. and Steve Buscemi. The M.A.S.H. and Scientific American Frontiers star explains to Kevin the fundamentals of science communication, reveals to Jimmy the secrets of acting, and tells Griff the trick of holding back the pressure to catch a big laugh.

Hakeem Oluseyi and the elephant eared telescope. Feb 26, 2016

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A special guest from the east cost, Hakeem Oluseyi takes some time from his busy schedule filming for the Science Channel's Amazing Acts of Science to talk to Griff and Kevin. Bore in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Hakeem has an atypical life for a physicist. But that's ok because he is starting a stand up careerer just like Kevin. Griff points out, the better your life story, the better the comedy.

Steve Hofstetter and the not-so-music-like music. Feb 22, 2016

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Griff, Kevin, and Jimmy head over to Steve Hofstetter's podcast studio to talk about baseball (Steve's favorite), Jimmy's new movie part, neutrinos and the classified, alien musics, that turns out to be non of those.

Alan Weinstein and the triple blind proof black hole collision. Feb 08, 2016

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Professor Alan Weinstein, who leads a group of scientists at Caltech who work on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), gives Griff, Kevin and Jimmy, their own special look at the ground-breaking announcement of the discovery of a 1.3 billion year old collision between two large black holes detected solely from their subtle waves in the fabric of space and time.

Bobak Ferdowsi and the battle of the Martian hairdos. Jan 28, 2016

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Bobak "Mohawk Guy" Ferdowsi stops by to discuss what it like to out hair Adam Stelzner so much that he got a shout out from President Obama. Kevin pushes his wind storm on Mars theory to the point it's just plain awkward. They guys all the allure of the Power Ball illusion.

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