Smart Enough to Know Better
298 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsSmart Enough to Know Better is a podcast of science, comedy and ignorance. Twice a month two professional performers chat about science stuff that excites them in a fun and accessible manner.
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Episodes
208 - Smart Enough to Duck Bills
February 27, 2024 07:24 - 1 hour - 26.1 MBTerraforming Mars, Robot Vacuum, Coal ash, Leap years and leap seconds, Cryptozoo: Scrooge McDuck
207 - Smart Enough to Egg Whites
January 28, 2024 01:32 - 1 hour - 23.2 MBEggs, Red Belly Black Snake, predictions of the future from the past, fireworks in space.
206 - Smart Enough to have Rose Glasses
December 26, 2023 04:31 - 1 hour - 29 MBColour blind glasses experiment, dinosaurs made mammals short lived, chimera monkeys, returning comet.
205.5 - Wah Wonders Why - Book Club - Children of Existential Crisis
December 21, 2023 04:41 - 1 hour - 27.1 MBGreg recommends a book to Dr Natasha sparking an existential crisis.
205 - Smart Enough to Pink Balls
December 03, 2023 05:37 - 1 hour - 35 MBPink Lakes, making oxygen, gems and jewels, Soda makers, Can everyone learn, The centre of the solar system, Smooth Earth
204 - Smart Enough to Anger Management
November 04, 2023 03:21 - 1 hour - 24.7 MBSpinning real fast, Gold toilets, Angry goal making, Romance in the lab.
203.5 - Wah Wonders Why - Book Club - Animals
October 08, 2023 01:40 - 1 hour - 23 MBDr Natasha is back to discuss books about animals
203 - Smart Enough to Reverse Cars
October 01, 2023 04:26 - 1 hour - 23.9 MBDisco Balls, Interchanges, Naming a rover, Antimatter falling down
202 - Smart Enough to Pan Tones
August 28, 2023 08:16 - 34 minutes - 12 MBCat allergens, Clashing Colours, Human Yolk, Popcorn
201 - Smart Enough to Dream Wizards
July 30, 2023 02:57 - 1 hour - 24.2 MBDetecting Dark Matter with Ravi Jaiswar
200.9375 - White Noise
July 21, 2023 14:00 - 3 minutes - 1.35 MBWe have Deborah Francis White on the podcast to talk about the role of women in professional settings
200.875 - Texas Tea
July 19, 2023 14:00 - 6 minutes - 2.17 MBGreg writes a story. Dan needs a fuel source
200.75 - Torporman
July 15, 2023 14:00 - 15 minutes - 5.43 MBAI poetry, Hiberation and a sketch about the Frog and the Scorpian.
200.5 - Tortoise Head
July 10, 2023 06:08 - 29 minutes - 10.3 MBNew Logo and other Greg does a Pimp my Time in Egypt
200 - Smart Enough to Cube Balls
June 27, 2023 04:10 - 1 hour - 25.3 MBDark Sky, Gelatonous cubes, and a week on a planet.
199 - Smart Enough to Taste Tests
May 30, 2023 07:49 - 1 hour - 24.7 MBSkin Cancer, Deep time, Salt and Snow.
198 - Smart Enough to Unseat Belts
April 29, 2023 00:53 - 1 hour - 24.9 MBUFOs, Induction stoves, Office Loyalty, Covid Dangers, T-rex mouths.
197 - Smart Enough to Bug Reports
March 23, 2023 07:21 - 1 hour - 27.9 MBHow crazy did COVID make us? Where the heart lies. A big Cicada. The end of civilization.
196.5 - Wah Wonders Why - In a dark, dark wood
March 04, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 21.1 MBGreg and Dan talk to Professor Peter Quinn about dark matter. From MACHOS, to WIMPS, to WISPS and even MOND (Modified Newtonian Dynamics).
196 - Smart Enough to Storm Clouds
February 18, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 21.9 MBHuman Hair, Lightning Strikes and the ever expanding universe.
195.5 - Wah Wonders Why - Book Club - Girls to the front
February 15, 2023 00:30 - 1 hour - 26.1 MBMore books reviewed with Dr Natasha this time featuring women authors.
195 - Smart Enough to Honey Smacks
January 29, 2023 07:17 - 1 hour - 24.9 MBWhere mammals started, Sugar in wounds, Cryptozoo Avatar, Eating Soap
194 - Smart Enough to Ship Shapes
December 22, 2022 00:56 - 1 hour - 26.8 MB2022 Wrapup, Bruising, Bumble Bee play, Sunny Boy shape, Penis art.
193 - Smart Enough to Number Wang
November 30, 2022 01:01 - 1 hour - 28.2 MBNumber of humans, phone research, number of ants, Speeding, number of T-Rex's and some walks of shame regarding Spatulas
192.5 - Wah Wonders Why - Space Chemist
November 16, 2022 01:01 - 31 minutes - 10.7 MBGreg chats to Dr Jared Fernando
192 - Smart Enough to Man Flues
October 28, 2022 07:46 - 1 hour - 22 MBFive Monkeys and Queen, Ice blasting, Throat mics, orgasm sickness, Corona.
191 - Smart Enough to Parrot Parrots
September 25, 2022 04:13 - 1 hour - 22.2 MBEating Animals, Painful Plants, Double Glazed Windows, The Taste of Bacon, Parrots Talking
190.5 - Movie Punk Theatre - Sequels and Prequels
September 06, 2022 06:11 - 37 minutes - 12.9 MBIt's a half episode where Dan talks to Carrington Vanston about movie sequels and not science.
190 - Smart Enough to Drug Stores
August 21, 2022 00:40 - 1 hour - 23 MBDr Peter Duggan joins us to talk about making medication from psychedelics.
189.5 - Wah Wonders Why - Book Club Multiverse
August 10, 2022 00:35 - 59 minutes - 20.4 MBGreg brings back Dr Natasha and also ropes Dan in to talk books about the multiverse.
189 - Smart Enough to Love Hearts
July 27, 2022 07:17 - 1 hour - 27.8 MBJWST, Deomodex, Asbestos, Scared Mice, Sighing
188 - One Ate & Ate
June 26, 2022 02:55 - 1 hour - 22.5 MBWe interview Dr Jo Rees about our gut biota.
187.5 - Wah Wonders Why - Plants in Space
June 12, 2022 06:28 - 42 minutes - 14.6 MBGreg and Dan talk to Professor Harvey Millar about space plants
187 - Smart Enough to Second Dates
May 31, 2022 06:57 - 1 hour - 23.5 MBEggplants, Laser weeding, Mufflers, Dating and Ear drums.
186.5 - Wah Wonders Why - Book Club Online
May 07, 2022 21:58 - 33 minutes - 11.7 MBAll fanfic is rubbish, right? Dr Natasha brings a couple of free internet books worthwhile reading to the book club.
186 - Smart Enough to Cool Cats
April 29, 2022 22:43 - 1 hour - 20.9 MBHow many people there should be, Bioluminescent Algae, Cat offspring, Blood in space, Petrol Bowsers.
185.5 - Wah Wonders Why - Book Club Aliens
April 17, 2022 00:03 - 49 minutes - 17.2 MBIn the first book club on the podcast, Greg talks to Dr Natasha not about space (shock) but great sci-fi novels concerning alien intelligence and how biology shapes morality.
185 - 185.0 - Smart Enough To Radio Stars
March 20, 2022 21:37 - 1 hour - 25.1 MBGreg chats to Dr Natasha Hurley Walker about a mysterious astronomical entity.
184.5 - Wah Wonders Why - Cosmic Savannah
March 12, 2022 04:57 - 21 minutes - 7.46 MBGreg talks to Dr Jacinta Delhaize about the Cosmic Savannah podcast
184 - Smart Enough to Post Scarcity
February 19, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour - 23.4 MBWe interview Manu Saadia about the economics of Star Trek.
183.5 - Wah Wonders Why - What the Philosophy?! - Attack of the Killer Robots!
February 10, 2022 22:14 - 1 hour - 23 MBGreg and Dan chat to Laura Nolan about the ethics of automated weapons.
183 - 183.0 - Smart Enough to Race Rats
January 23, 2022 05:05 - 59 minutes - 20.8 MBThe Tonga Volcano, Spicy Food, Facial Hair, Contraception, Rats Driving, Mirrors, Geometric Mean.
182 - Smart Enough to Leap Frogs
December 30, 2021 05:56 - 1 hour - 29.9 MBMillipede legs, Butter, Common cold vs Covid, The best mugging victim and Cobra venom.
181.5 - Wah Wonders Why - Qui Custodiet Medicus
December 16, 2021 02:03 - 50 minutes - 17.4 MBGreg talks to Tom Salinsky about Doctor Who and Big Finish.
181 - Smart Enough to Steam Power
November 26, 2021 03:57 - 1 hour - 30.5 MBBird Names, Teeth Brushing, Clean Rooms, Rocket Spinning, One Food, Finger Clicking.