The Mad Scientist Podcast

Want to hear some hilarious scientific stories, salacious details about your favorite physicist, and read about one of the most well known urology seminars ever? Then take a listen to this episode as Chris is joined by Tawny and George Platis of The Dirty Bits Podcast! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dirty-bits/id1231890102?mt=2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode we are joined by the Host of Pleasing Terrors, one of the best podcasts around, to talk about the connection between Ghosts and Water, why Mike spent an evening locked in a haunted jail, Marie's fight or flight response, and what kind of nerd Chris was in high school. Come listen to us banter! http://darkmyths.org/portfolio/pleasing-terrors/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is High Fructose bad for you? What the hell is a fructose? How do we make it? And is it making us fat and cancerous? Find out on this weeks episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After all that turkey and stuffing, lets settle around the old podcast playing device and learn about Nanotechnology with Chris and TJ from Pints and Puzzles! What is a nanometer? What kind of advances can we expect with nanotechnology in medicine, energy, and pollution control? What the heck did Chris get his PhD in anyways? Come find out on this special Thanksgiving Episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Prisoner is one of the most important science fiction shows of all time, and in this Roundtable we talk all about the show, its importance to science fiction, and its philosophical overtones. We also give a shoutout to the Lets Not Meet podcast: https://www.letsnotmeetpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

http://www.blurryphotos.org/ This episode we are joined by Flora from Blurry Photos, one of our favorite podcasts, to talk about our greatest fears! And containing music by Amazing Transparent Man! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Why did little Chris Cogswell smell like shaving cream on Halloween? Should you open up your kids candy to check for razor blades? What are our host's favorite Halloween memories? Check out in this spooky episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we talk to Dr. Lucas Landherr, aka Dante Shepherd from Surviving the World http://survivingtheworld.net/Faculty.html We discuss teaching science and engineering through unconventional means, getting involved as a frustrated grad student in the arts, and a bunch of other stuff on this weeks episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris and TJ sit down for another bonus episode, talking about things you shouldn't google at work while working on a podcast, alien abductions, and their latest episodes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week is the final chapter in the Hill Abduction story. Just what happened to the Hill's that night? What does science make of the physical evidence? Could hypnosis induce false memories? Find out on this weeks episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why do we hallucinate when we are running on little to no sleep? Can the government control the weather? How about taking in a little teaser for our series on Dyatlov? That and more on this weeks episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we discuss the very first abduction case, that of Betty and Barney Hill. The hill couple claimed under hypnosis to have been abducted by aliens from Zeta Reticuli, however a lot of what the public knows about the case has been distorted over time. Find out the real story on this weeks episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What happened to our intrepid Lowes this week? Does yelling at something while hunting it ever make it easier to catch? Will drumming at aliens with glow sticks make them appear, or just keep humans away? Can a Boat be this seasons hottest new character? Find out on this weeks episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What has made the Vampire such a consistent part of our monster lore throughout the centuries? What kind of explanations are there for the physical evidence of corpses rising from the dead to suck blood, like blood on the teeth or still present in the internal organs after burial? Is Vlad the Impaler really the best historical vampire, or is there someone else to take his cape and fangs? Find out in this episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you believe in the power of positive thinking? How about the law of attraction? The laws of thermodynamics? Just what the hell is the deal with Star Mars, Marie? Find out in this weeks roundtable! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How do we study mental health in the world of biology? How do we treat these things now, and what are the limitations of our current methods? Find out in this weeks episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The solar eclipse is here! We talk to one of the members of IGOR (the Important Group of Researchers) Justin Ramberger about graduate school, the eclipse, and aliens! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just what is Rob Lowe up to in a haunted castle? Are blinking lights a good indication of paranormal activity? Are there community college courses in Shamanism? Find out in this week's special episode with Sam Fredrickson of the Not Alone Podcast and Rob Kristoffersen of the upcoming Our Strange Skies podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Greetings comrades! This is definitely Chris and not Kristaps here, telling you to please listen to this episode on how the glorious Soviet Space Fleet crushed our enemies to conquer the future. Also I am somehow typing this from the future. Over and out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode the Mad Scientist Podcast is joined by one of our favorite podcasts and fellow Dark Myth members Rumor Flies! We take on forensic myths including lie detector tests, blood splatter analysis, DNA analysis, and forensic psychology in this super long and super special episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode Chris sits down with one of the hosts of the excellent "Is This Adulting?" Podcast, Steven Pappas, to talk about mental health myths and stigma from a personal perspective. Part 1 of the multi part series on mental health myths and pseudoscience! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

GIANT SQUID AGAIN! This time featuring Marie! And announcing the winners of the Be a Mad Scientist Contest Round 1! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

RELEASE THE KRAKEN! Or at least release some interesting science and history about the Kraken! Where did this legend come from, how do our stories about giant squid measure up to real specimen, and what the heck is a colossal squid? Find out on this weeks episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you ever wondered why we seem to love cannibals when their on TV? How did historical cases of cannibalism happen, and what are some common themes found in this gruesome favorite of Halloween stories? Find out on this weeks Roundtable! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is a shadow person? Is it a new phenomena, or does it go back into history? What sort of biological processes could be at work here, or is there no explanation for these spooky specters in the corners of our eyes? Is that my cat on the floor, or just another pair of old shoes? Find out on this weeks episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode, join Chris and Marie as they discuss haunted or cursed objects throughout history! Is there such a thing as a haunted book? Can a song drive you to the pits of despair? Can a reproduction of a haunted painting still be haunted? Find out on this weeks episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Check out this special interview episode with Rob Kristoffersen, who has had a lifetime of weird paranormal experiences! From gnomes at night to ghosts inhabiting a car, Rob has seen quite a number of heavy hitters in the paranormal realm, and has some fascinating stories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why do people deny that climate change is happening? What is the history of this conspiracy theory, and how does it relate to real science? How do we measure temperature with tree rings and ice cores? Whats the deal with proxy variable modeling?! Find out in this weeks episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode join Chris and Marie on a journal through chemtrails, the Jersey Devil, the Gloucester Sea Monster, and the upcoming Bunny Apocalypse! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How does climate change happen? Is global warming real, or are we heading for a new ice age? What the hell is a Fourier Law? Why does my Grandma seem to all of a sudden have some serious opinions about infrared adsorption of hydrocarbons? Find out in this weeks episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who is the average American? What the heck is a Kessel run, and how can a measure of distance also be a measure of time? What’s the science march all about? Find out in this weeks Roundtable! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you seen those amazing instagram photos of pieces of art depicting aliens walking around with pioneer Americans? Chances are those were pieces of work by Mark Rogers, a really amazing artist who is creating pieces of art to go with our modern mythology of UFO lore. In this episode we interview him on his work, his background, and where he gets his inspiration! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Does the Flat Earth theory hold any water? How does it relate to a sort of flat river in Norfolk? How about a donut shaped Earth? Just how do we know that the Earth is solid with an iron core? Find out on this weeks Episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode we’re getting serious about a psychic cat. Mr. Charles Utkins is no joke, and was sold for something like $80,000 to a Siberian witch. All our cats seem to make is noise. Join us on this weeks episode as we discuss the Steel needed to make the Death Star, Stephen King’s IT, and this very serious Russian Psychic Cat threat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week I’m very proud to say that I got to have a sit down interview with Mick West, founder of Metabunk.org, Contrailscience.com, and overall debunker extraordinaire. We talk about how we got his start debunking, conspiracy theories, contrails, Morgellons Disease, and how listeners can get involved in promoting scientific and rational viewpoints. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How much water is there on the Earth? What’s a Time Crystal? Is there a bomber floating in the bottom of a river in Pittsburgh? Find out on this week’s episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As a thank you to our fans, Pints and Puzzles and I are releasing this extra episode. This features us discussing how we got started in podcasting, our histories with the paranormal, and our top 5 favorite weird topics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is the disease that people online seem to think is causing them to grow hairs out of their skin? How do diseases relate to memes, and what is the science behind Morgellons? Is there any proof to this disease, and if not who is out there trying to spread this information? Find out on this weeks episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Could Marie’s friend fight a Bobcat? What’s the deal with Oak Island? Is Clean Coal really a thing? Find out in this weeks Roundtable! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is the first folio real, or is that just a Nicholas Cage style movie thing? Find out on this weeks episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is up with magical fruits and stuff, that supposedly cure everything you can possibly become sick with? Why do people believe this stuff, is there any science behind some of it, and who thought a thing called Noni berries would ever sell? Find out in this episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the very first in a new series of content from the Mad Scientist Podcast, featuring Marie Mayhew as co-host! These episodes will be much less formal, and more open to wide ranging discussions, than the more serious full episodes. Expect Roundtables in future in the 2nd and 4th weeks of the month, with full episodes in the main series coming on the 1st and 3rd weeks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What does a scientist do every day? How does one become a scientist? How does science happen? Find out in this weeks episode, kicking off the multi part feature on fake diseases, weird cures, and medical quackery! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy Holidays! What kinds of weird stuff does the Mad Scientist hear around the dinner table? Find out on this weeks episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is Alchemy, what did the ancient Alchemists believe, and how does Alchemy still mess with our world today? Find out this week on the Mad Scientist Podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Quantum mechanics has become the go to scientific like argument for paranormal stuff. But what is quantum mechanics? How does it work, and how did it develop? And what are the sorts of arguments that people use to try and fix it towards paranormal stuff? What is the Uncertainty Principle? Is the cat alive or dead?! Find out in this weeks episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is the history of actually “mad scientists”, as opposed to a grad students that puts out a podcast? Where do we draw the line between a moral and immoral scientific test or question, and what about todays questionable scientific questions? And besides mad scientists, what about those that seem to be truly evil? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zombies are such a big horror movie staple now that I’ve almost grown to resent them. Can’t they leave us alone for a few minutes, while we look for food and try to rebuild society? Does it make sense that a virus could spread without anyone noticing, until its too late? What about zombies scare us, and what sort of stuff do the horror movies miss out on? Find out in this week’s episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Poltergeists have been around for as long as humans have been telling stories, but what sort of science is there to back them up? How do noisy ghosts relate to the speed of light, and what sort of thermodynamic rules are screwed up by telekinetics? Join me this week to find out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices