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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!
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- 2 weeks ago59 min
115: LIVE - Eyevolution III & Fat Bear Week
It's our first ever LIVE SHOW!!! We return to the threequel of eyevolution to look at... eyelids? How interesting could that be? And Caroline teaches us about the competition, the science, and the adorable bears of fat bear week!Images we talk about:(Also available at https://www.letslearneverything.com/115/)Tom's Topic Reveal SlideSpecial GuestSealBear 480: Otis 1Bear 480: Otis 2Bear 480: Otis ComparisonBear 132 Cub 1Bear 132 Cub 2Bear BracketBear 89 Backpack 1Bear 89 Backpack 2Bear 89 Backpack 3Bear 474 Bear Force One 1Bear 474 Bear Force One 2Timestamps: Intro Eyevolution III Fat Bear Week OutroSupport us with a Max Fun Membership!Join our Discord!We also learn about:Sources:The origin of blinking in both mudskippers and tetrapodsSouthwest Eye Institue Blinking and Eye HealthReview of Opthamology on Blinking and TearsReview of Lacrimal Gland from Journal of OpthamologyAdvances in Clinical Chemistry: Chapter on Tear FilmAlaska Department of Fish and Game on Seal Tear Ducts---Four Paws: Torpor vs HibernationNorth American Bear Centre: Bear Activity and HibernationFour Paws: The Brown Bear: Way of Life & OffspringExplore: Bear of Fat Bear WeekDOI: Everything You Want to Know About Katmai National Park’s Fat BearsExplore: FBW 2026BBC: 'Backpack' declared Alaska's Fat Bear Week winnerWiki: Fat Bear WeekNational Park Service: Bears of KatmaiExplore: FBW Hall of ChampionsGuardian: Backpack Wins Fat Bear Week<a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/gentle-giant-backpack-declar
- 4 weeks ago1h 44m
114: La Brea's Bone Count & Giant Pumpkins
How many bones are in the La Brea tar pits? And what can that teach us about life, death, and oil? And what's the point of growing giant vegetables? Well, the pure whimsy of it all, as well as some fascinating techniques and tales.Images we talk about:(Also available at https://www.letslearneverything.com/114/)Tom's Picture from La Brea2nd Picture from La BreaGiant TomatoesGiant CarrotGiant ZucchiniGiant PumpkinEating PumpkinPumpkin RaceTimestamps: Intro La Brea's Bone Count Giant Pumpkins OutroSupport us with a Max Fun Membership!Join our Discord!We also learn about:Good to be back in the bone zone, how many corners does LLE have? wolf skull wall, untangling all the oil words, life uh dies, Coal Oil & Gas, crude oil has over 350 different hydrocarbons, refining oil is just separating different hydrocarbons, the official stance of the podcast is that fossil fuels are cool, hey kids - see what it was like to be in the asphalt’s deathly grip! Kids Yearn for the Tar Pits, La Brea has the bones of Tigers and Lions and Camels, I’m actually an epoch girlie, um actually it’s the La Brea Woman, it’s 10,000 years ago - women can be fossils too, predator traps and carcass domination, the oily stains on bones, fingers crossed the new museum invents new ways to confront my mortality, Summer’s Jumpret response to Michael, what’s y’alls familiarity with vegetables? I have to tell an asparagus story, perhaps Thoreau’s biggest impact was on the large vegetable world, fuck Leaves of Grass - One Big Pumpkin, big pumpkin at the Chicago World’s Fair, we’re going to need a bigger pub, it’s like very slow horse racing, it’s like a drug dealing community, the LLE ruler goes from Big to Fuck Me, seed auctions, the horror that is giant tomatoes, sorry what the fuck is the giant pumpkin common wealth, I love when a number is so preposterous it makes us angry, Ella is disappointed by carrots, pumpkins are an indeterminate plant, pumpkins are nature’s dyson sphere, auxiliary plants are so creepy, the theoretical pumpkin limit is 20,000 pounds, cheating and skullduggery, put me in a giant pumpkin and throw me in the tar pit, pumpkin regatta, I know you meant - no I meant punkin chunkin, you have to completely lack whimsy to not enjoy these guys.Sources:La Brea's HistoryUC Berkley La Brea HistorySmithsonian Fossil Fuel BreakdownNHM Tar Pit TravelogueSmithsonianMag: Animals Trapped in the La Brea Tar Pits Would Take Months to SinkUC Berkley La Brea HistoryIUGS on La BreaLa Brea CamelThe carnivoran fauna of Rancho La Brea: Average or aberrant?La Brea Carnivore AnalysisPlayback Carcass Domination StudyPhys.org L
- Sep 24, 20261h 54m
113: Rediscovered Organs & Bird Watching
Wait, how are we rediscovering organs in 2026?? Or... are we? Well let's learn about the history and fads of the insides of our bodies! And what is bird watching, why do we all love it, and how casual and competitive can you get with it?Images we talk about:(Also available at https://www.letslearneverything.com/113/)Clay LiverOnline Terminologia AnatomicaSalivary GlandsBird Study SkinsA Field guide to Birds Example PageTimestamps: Intro Rediscovered Organs Bird Watching OutroSupport us with a Max Fun Membership!Join our Discord!The Name WebsiteStudy skins,We also learn about:Huh?? Mesopotamian organ divination, sheep liver phrenology models, everyone needs to talk about this, Al-Razi’s “Doubts about Galen”, the great ignorance time skip, hmm this dead body must be wrong, the dissection fad, the murder act, you don’t know Burke and Hare?? body snatching and anatomy murder, the vestigial craze, Wiedersheim’s minimal viable person, the problem of naming organs, 20 synonyms of organs, Ella goes feral over the online Federative International Programme for Anatomical Terminology, our 3-4, hi Dad and Ella’s mom - hope you enjoyed that clitoris joke, our 4th pair of handlebar moustache salivary glands, the interstitium getting reverse pluto’d, labelling an organ is useful but also not the full picture, gen Z loves birding, FUCK YOU JONO WE’RE DOING THE HISTORY, is paleontology birding if you’re looking at sauricia, ornithomancy, where there have been birds - we have watched birds, study skins, hey what if we looked at them alive? in 1901 Edmund Selous discovers bird empathy, “lay down the gun and take up the glasses”, POWs from WWII publishing their findings, slovenly non scientific bird watchers, it’s a hobby with no proper definition, Merline and ObsIdentify and Birder and Ebird and Rare Bird Alert and Birder’s Interface, it’s pokemon! WHO’S THAT bird, “oh my god I actually cannot do this any more”, apps aren’t perfect, twitchers, the New Jersey World Series of Birding, Big Year, the first book specifically for birding, the first big year was just some guy who wrote how many birds he saw one year and told people about it, a big year is a physical and mental trial for glory, it’s for the birds, has their love curdled or have they unlocked a true kind of love? why do we do anything at all? I do love birds but man do I love humans.Sources:Organ sources coming soon!---BBC: Why Gen Z Birdwatchers Are Flocking to ReservesCNN: Why Gen Z is going bonkers for birdingWikipedia: OrnithomancySmithsonian Magazine: How Bird Collecting Evolved Into Bird-WatchingMy Bird Buddy: History of Bird WatchingHaikubox: Evolution of BirdwatchingPitville History: Edmund SelousBritish Birds: Best Bird Watching Apps10000 Birds: Can I rely on MerlinScience Base: Bird ID AppsSussex Wildlife Trust: The Good the Bad and the Middling ID Apps<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/birding/comments/4s11s7/pokemon_go_is_basicall
- Sep 10, 20261h 58m
112: Life in Exclusion Zones & Every Single Character
What happens to life inside exclusion zones like Chernobyl? Is it good? Bad? Or something much more interesting? And what happens when you try to codify every single character from human language? Well, it definitely leads to some fascinating linguistic rabbit holes!Images we talk about:Przewalski’s horse (yes that’s how it’s spelled)FrogsCharacter U+FDFDArabic TextDecorative U+FDFD'sTom's Favorite Use of KashidaTimestamps: Intro Life in Exclusion Zones Every Single Character OutroSupport us with a Max Fun Membership!Join our Discord!We also learn about: Actually defining it made it creepier, the zone rouge, we an area of Earth uninhabitable from war, chernobyl release over 100 radioactive elements, they really need to name the zone of alienation the zone of doing taxes, the liquidators actually did a good job of stopping the spread, is this a rewilding experiment? Ella deleted emails to poach this topic, Przewalski’s horse (yes that’s how it’s spelled), technically feral vs wild horses, I’ve reached the nuance center of my nuance pop, why isn’t it my job so sample chernobyl frogs, nearly all pine trees near chernobyl were wiped out, “the selective pressures of radiation”, bright birds used up their carotenoids for color, we’re doing nuclear ecological biochemistry, god that was an ugly laugh, maybe its counterintuitive for the small things - no this one sucks, the slow horror of a lack of decomposition, the ecosystem is not rewilded it’s entirely new, the Korean DMZ is like an ecological semi permeable membrane, DMZ ecology research institute, the DMZ has 40% of Korea’s endangered species, it’s a pitstop along the east asian australasian flyway, endangered cranes have bounced back in the DMZ, the DMZ crane watch, the cranes and natterjack toad require human farming to thrive, synonyms of nuance and thrive, Baarter economy standing ovation, conflictful chicken, Unicode is the ISO standard for text on computers, ASCII’s 128 characters is surely enough right? why do you have a period accurate phone? it turns out other cultures want to use the computer, there are 159,801 characters in unicode, the basic multilingual plane sounds like startrek shit and it kind of is, I mean it’s not like it has cuneiform except it does, braille unicode exists for a reason, braille doesn’t just map one to one with letters it also has contractions, contracted braille is a stenography, tweeting more in japanese, 101,996 CJK characters, Max Woolf’s Big List of Naughty Strings, after Mamdani was elected I had to learn how to pronounce the bismillah, “Bismillah is the Przewalski’s Horse of this topic”, I said we shouldn’t dive into the history of a language halfway through a topic but fuck it, LR0’s terrific Arabic typography essay, arabic script can be perfectly justified, “the justification lives inside the words”, Kashidas stretching across a map made it click for Tom, maing the bismillah beautiful, we all just want to make text look cool, the ottoman printing press ban myth, the cursed lost printed quran, oh my god is this the unifying thing, weirdly internet explorer had kashida justification for 1 year? Inshallah you find on the internet what you’re exploring for.Sources:Chernobyl Frogs ImageWikipedia: Exclusion ZonesWorld Nuclear AssociationWikipedia: Zone RougeExplorers Web: Montserrat and its Exclusion Zone<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2024/jul/20/where-time-has-stood-still-for-50-years-t
- Aug 27, 20261h 6m
Recast: Ella on That's Absurd, Please Elaborate
Due to some house woes, we're recasting Ella's excellent appearance on That's Absurd, Please Elaborate, where they actually solve a meme and invent Pee Day. Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinlearn
- Aug 13, 20261h 29m
111: Astronaut Cady Coleman, Life in Space, and What Astronauts Learn
What does an astronaut actually learn in training? And what surprises them about having to live in space? Well, fortunately astronaut Cady Coleman is here to answer these and many more of our questions!! See us live in London! LETSLEARNEVERYTHING.COM/LIVE See Tom live in NYC! OurFindingsShow.com Images we talk about:Cady's Background Image Timestamps: Intro Astronaut Training and Space Life Space Suits Outro Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! We also learn about: Astronaut school, “the mission is exploration and only a part of it is human spaceflight”, the telerobotic surgery was real, living in NEEMO, Cady learned to remove a gallbladder, “what is it that I have to remember is not being simulated well?”, oh the telerobotic surgery was happening under water, it’s about sharing what you’re learning at the same time, spending 11 days underwater, bedrest studies in hawaii are actually a toll and a service, communication is key even in space, trust us space food is going to get old, not every day of training is remove 10 gallbladders, putting yourself in the picture humanizes it, which way is up? sleep flashes from cosmic rays, liquid sensors in our neck make you pee when you lie down and reduce blood volume in space, you can’t cough to hide your pee on the ISS, the future of the ISS, astronaut feet facts, Paolo and Cady’s toenail system, learning to fly in zero g, “you learn to live in 3 dimensions”, losing things in zero g sucks, CO2 buildup for the group photo, not washing clothes upset the balance, it’s all about fluid physics, “it’s all about interfaces between solids and liquids - and up in space it’s the biggest game in town”, peeing in space is easier than camping, how you determine your space order with feet, the domino effect of space suit sizes, your space suit is your space ship, IT’S LESS MATERIAL, there are people who are still waiting their turn, “how do you make sure these voices are heard when their presence is not missed?”, how to work for change collaboratively, you shouldn’t have to work so hard to participate, “oh that’s going on the website Cady”, one small step for you and one big step for democracy. Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinlearn
- Jul 30, 20261h 46m
110: Horsepower & Makeup
What even is horsepower? Is it a silly unit of measurement, or actually an underrated marvel?? And how old is makeup? Why do we do it? And what historic looks can you steal for your next night out? What are the flaws in scientific publishing, who's responsible, and how can we fix it? ALSO SEE US LIVE IN LONDON!!! LETSLEARNEVERYTHING.COM/LIVE Images we talk about: Timestamps: Intro Horsepower Makeup Outro Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! We also learn about: I’m taking horse pills to get their powers, we can answer questions without getting klaxonned, abbreviated for french reasons, the meter is 1 ten millionth the distance from the north to south pole, I’m going to be talking about power “oh god”, power is the movement of a mass over time, you’ll notice nowhere in that definition did I mention horses, James perfects the steam engine, you can’t just say “hey this engine will get us to the industrial revoltuion” you have to sell it in horses, come up with your own unit of power dweeb, a horse can produce 15 horsepower, you’re about to have a lot more nickels, there was a metric and imperial horsepower, all the international names for hosepower, watt SI unit is on first base? the father son and the holy ghost of electronics (the amp, volt, and watt), we didn’t have a unified unit for power before horsepower, Thomas Edison measured lightbulb efficacy by horsepower, IT WASN’T AN IRONIC CHOICE IT WAS CAUSE AND EFFECT, this isn’t a podcast it’s a slumber party, Caroline and Ella’s metallic blue eyeliner/facepaint, webster’s definition is somehow too broad and too narrow, prehistoric pigemtns may have been body paint, Ella’s surprisingly informative ancient egyptian ASMR video, from kohl to green malachite, caroline hiding the sexy bits of the papyrus from us, this makes my tummy hurt, fish palettes, ancient greek prostitues were required to wear lipstick, modern man or ro-man, a woman buys lotions and perfumes with cheating in mind, Elizabeth I’s lead and vinegar makeup, painting on fake veins, plucking hairs to match the queen’s forhead, the optical illusion dot, Caroline’s favorite fad: beauty patches, it’s so wild how excluded darker complexions are in the market when this topic started in ancient egypt, perhaps makeup imitates the moment of an orgasm, im inventing new sexism: men are blurry, we finally just asked women why they wear makeup, wearing makeup because we have to vs we want to, for other or ourselves, the ro-manosphere. Sources:History of the SI UnitsHistory of Imperial UnitsThe Fan-Tastic paper: The Origin of the Horsepower UnitJames' Encyclopedia Britannica BiographyHorserpower From a Horse PaperSiemen's Address for the Watt UnitEdison Papers Measuring Lightbulbs in HorsepowerNOAA Lightning Stats Makeup sources coming soon!! Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinlearn
- Jul 16, 20261h 18m
109: Scientific Publishing & Scientific Publishing
What are the flaws in scientific publishing, who's responsible, and how can we fix it? ALSO SEE US LIVE IN LONDON!!! LETSLEARNEVERYTHING.COM/LIVE Timestamps: Intro Scientific Publishing Part I Scientific Publishing Part II Outro Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! We also learn about: We almost do the same grim joke, the live show will have 50% more hosts than this, before publications there were societies and books and letters, in 1665 a Henry Oldenburg of the royal society starts “Philosophical Transactions”, the longest continuous journal (ignoring the time Olderburg was put in a tower for criticizing the king), the discovery of Jupiter’s red spot and also a deformed calf, Newton’s Optics was published in Philosophical Transactions first, Science has bad SEO, the doubling time of papers is 14 years since the 1950s, Ella’s peer review process, errors can be missed and biases affected, not paying reviewers is a bug that’s labelled as a feature, government funded research can still be privately owned, we’ve all agreed “processing fee” just means bullshit, there’s some things I don’t want to be “fun”, Elsevier has a 38% profit margin while Alphabet’s is 32%, editorial resignations in protest, I’m excited to add Robert Maxwell to my Arya Stark list of people, Maxwell died on his yes-that-Ghislaine-Maxwell Yacht, the scheme to buyout scientists for their papers, cover upfront costs - own copyright - flood with new journals - reap the subscription costs, “jesus wept”, retractions are growing by about 20% each year, I’m buying Ella a dictionary so she can learn what “fun” means, fool me 239 time shame on me, paper mills, predatory journals are pay to win, the Chinese restaurant metaphor keeps staying accurate, no it’s not nature our journal is nurture, is this finally rock bottom? the public review curate model, the pros and cons of preprints, diamond open access, the nelson memo, “I think the Ghislaine Mawell death yacht is fun”. Sources:Royal Society: History of Scientific JournalsRoyal Society: Philosophical Transactions The Early YearsRoyal Society: Philosophical Transactions Issue 1University College London: A History of Scientific JournalsPhilosophical Transactions A: Newton Shows the LightRoyal Society Notes and Records: 350 Years of Scientific PeriodicalsBroad Research Communication Lab: Peer Review - a Historical PerspectiveNature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications: Growth Rates of Modern ScienceJSTOR: The History of Peer Review is More Interesting Than You ThinkBritish Journal of Biomedical Science: The Peer Review Process: Past, Present, and FutureJournal of the Royal Society of Medicine: Peer Review: A Flawed Process at the Heart of Science and JournalsThe Conversation: Academic Publishing is a Multibillion Dollar IndustryNew Scientists: Time to Break Academic Publishing’s Stranglehold on ResearchThe Lance
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