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Meet Dr. Varshana Gurusamy: diagnostic radiology resident, Texan and amazing person with great stories.
Hello folks and thanks so much for listening to the first episode of Ologies with the supremely badass volcanologist and congressional candidate, Jess Phoenix.
Learn about chimpanzee mating, why zookeepers don’t wear FitBits, primate DRAAAMA, the erroneous philosophy behind truck nuts and what happens in the middle the night at the zoo.
Listen to Dr. Michael Habib, who by morning dissects humans but by afternoon is in the paleontology lab.
Possibly the world’s most enthusiastic tree expert, J. Casey Clapp, shows Alie his many tree tattoos, explains how roots communicate to each other, addresses “crown shyness” and schools Alie on the mental health benefits of tree proximity.
Yale researcher and associate professor Dr. Valerie Horsley stops by California to chat with Alie about the nature of hair and why it grows in the wrong places, the causes and remedies for hair loss, the grossest museum ever, and why we love and hate and need our hair as animals.
Butterflies are delightful and beautiful and part of any idyllic picnic-scape but lepidopterologist, TV host and jungle explorer Phil Torres is here to gossip about how shamelessly disgusting our favorite bugs actually are.
Alie sits down with “Lucky Dog” host Brandon McMillan, who cares more about saving shelter mutts than he does about the 3 Daytime Emmys he’s won for doing it.
Kelly Sitek talks about adventures in mining, the chemical composition of different gems, breaks down the test taking process for gemology and gives advice on haunted stones.
Professional bird-person and all around cool dude James Maley joins Alie to talk about bird mating, monogamy, the cult of ornithology, absurd birds, parrots that are smarter than your friends’ kids, a surprising fact about owl ears and history’s most tragically zealous bird nerds.
Meet Lila Higgins: the self-professed “bug geek” with passion more infectious than a glassy winged sharpshooter mouth.
Astrophysicist and cosmologist Katie Mack (@astrokatie) joins to tell us her most embarrassing moments as a cosmologist, to debunk some physicist myths and give the nuts + bolts of everything form particle physics to gravitational waves and existential mysteries.
