Useful Science

This week we're talking about sleep.

This week we're talking about dog ownership and gift giving.

This week we're talking about fatigue & risk management in healthcare workers.

This week we're talking about racial disparities in health and medicine.

This week we're talking about racial disparities in health and medicine.

This week we're talking about neighborhood connections and green spaces.

This week we're talking about cultural change.

This week we're talking about food and allergies.

This week we're talking about behavior change.

This week we're talking about parenting.

This week we're talking about parenting.

This week we're talking about vaccine skepticism.

This week we're talking about sleep and lunch breaks.

This week we're talking about blind cooperation.

This week we're talking about the Ig Nobel Prize

This week we're talking about laughter and social connection.

This week we're talking about climate change and health.

This week we're talking about microplastics.

5-Year Anniversary Special

This week we're talking about productivity and the color green.

This week we're talking about social justice.

This week we're talking about dogs and wellbeing.

This week we're talking about knots.

This week we're talking about clinical trials, COVID-19, and ethics.

This week we're talking about Asian giant hornets, aka murder hornets.

This week we're talking about expiration sugar.

This week we're talking about expiration dates.

This week we're talking about physics and teaching complicated concepts.

A followup episode on COVID-19.

This week we're talking about temper tantrums.

This week we're talking about office fitness.

This week we're talking about social inclusion and politics and polarization.

An emergency episode on COVID-19.

This week we're talking about social inclusion and well-being.

This week we're talking about antibiotics.

This week we're talking about red meat vs. the world.

This week we're talking about the Circadian Rhythm.

This week we're talking about the science of pets.

This week we're talking about smartphones,

This week we're talking about having a useful summer.

This week we're talking about pop music.

This week we're talking about the science of love.

This week we're talking about sleep.

This week we're talking about going outside.

This week we're talking about expensive headphones and audio quality.

This week we learn about the benefits and risks of urban green spaces.

This week we learn about sleep habits, Fitbit lawsuits, and bad science reporting.

Interview: Social impact, documentaries, VR, and empathy with Harmony Institute.

This week we learn about art museums, napping, and male and female brains.

Guest Josh Rosenau, Programs and Policy Director of the National Center for Science Education, talks about the mission of the NCSE and the history of attacks against evolution and climate science in public schools.

This week we learn about body shape index, humor in the classroom, and squatting while pooping.

This week we learn about online dating, marathon runners, and pizza.

This week we learn about getting drunk on diet soda, getting full on imaginary food, and attracting mosquitos with your genes.

This week we learn about ambient noise for creative thinking, email checking frequency, and academic tracking, which is separating students into different classes or schools according to their academic ability.

This week we learn about attractive male faces, sex frequency, and organic, grass fed, hormone free, non-gmo beef.

This week we learn about adolescent brains, legal drinking ages, and antibacterial soap.

This week we learn about the effect of old misconceptions on learning new concepts, painful math anxiety, and healthy personalities.

This week we cover articles from the education section of our site. We learn about teaching children that intelligence is malleable, merit badges, and depressed roommates. We also have an interview with Derek Muller of Veritasium and Snatoms.

This week we learn about eating fast food after a workout, xenophobic 6 year olds, and HIV prevention.

This week we're talking about placebos. We cover placebo clothing, placebo surgeries, and how placebos are getting stronger over time.

This week we learn about the benefits of napping, how music makes you smarter, and why you should be playing more video games.

This week, all of our topics come from the happiness section of our site. We learn about how the wealth of others affects your happiness, the effectiveness of anti-depressant drugs, and why being happy all the time may not make you happy all the time.

This week we learn about how walking enhances creativity, power posing, and why arguing with your teenager may be a good idea.

This week, all of our topics come from the persuasion section of our site. We learn about why people suck at giving gifts, all about vocal fry, and how to create love in an hour… in a lab at least.

This week we learn about sleep paralysis, whether cool 13 year olds have already washed out by the age of 22, is your cat’s poop affecting your behavior, and how reliable is medical information on Wikipedia.