Episode 2: Bedbugs and Brain Worms
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Episode 2: Bedbugs and Brain Worms
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Welcome Back! In this second episode of Yackety Science, co-hosts Matt Smith and Brian Cross tackle the Parker Solar Probe, avian flu, contagious urination, and helium. In the first ever installment of Yackety Science Ruins the Movies, Matt attempts to take down the movie Prometheus. And in the guest interview, Dr. Charles Brown talks about the four decades he has spent hanging out among the cliff swallows of Nebraska
Got a question, comment, or correction? Yack right back at us at YacketyScience@gmail.com.
Theme music: “Funky Machine” (ID874) by Lobo Loco (Accessed through FreeMusicArchive.org.; CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Production help provided by Scott Gregory.
Yackety Science is recorded at the studios of Public Radio Tulsa, Kendall Hall, University of Tulsa.
Links:
Contagious Urination: https://www.science.org/content/article/peeing-contagious-chimpanzees
Parker Solar Probe: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-parker-solar-probe-makes-history-with-closest-pass-to-sun/
Avian Influenza:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/health/kennedy-bird-flu.html
Cliff Swallows:
https://utulsa.edu/news/building-on-his-lifes-work-professor-publishes-latest-cliff-swallow-research/