SciShow Tangents

Celebrity Science with Elah Feder

Episode Summary

For our very first live show at PodCon 2, we were joined by Elah Feder, the co-host and producer of the podcast Undiscovered! Podcasting on a stage with a live audience meant we really had to bring our A-game, so we swapped stories of famous actors, politicians, and other celebrities who also dabbled in science.

Episode Notes

For our very first live show at PodCon 2, we were joined by Elah Feder, the co-host and producer of the podcast Undiscovered! Podcasting on a stage with a live audience meant we really had to bring our A-game, so we swapped stories of famous actors, politicians, and other celebrities who also dabbled in science.

 

Sources:

[Truth or Fail]

http://ancientolympics.arts.kuleuven.be/eng/TC003EN.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/old-world-high-tech-141284744/

[Fact Off]

Julia Child:

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2015-featured-story-archive/shark-repellent.html

https://appliedecology.cals.ncsu.edu/absci/wp-content/uploads/Stroud-et-al-2014.pdf

https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/4935

https://faculty.washington.edu/sisneros/Sisneros%20and%20Nelson%202001.pdf

Zeppo Marx: 

[Ask the Science Couch]

Brian May’s thesis: 

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/295744.pdf

https://www.space.com/5692-queen-guitarist-publishes-astrophysics-thesis.html

http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/cosmic_reference/zodydust.html

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1994IAUS..160..127D

[Butt One More Thing]

Dr. Rush’s Bilious Pills:

https://io9.gizmodo.com/archaeologists-tracked-lewis-and-clark-by-following-the-1727887223

https://www.nps.gov/jeff/learn/historyculture/medrush.htm