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Smart Enough to Know Better

by Dan Beeston & Greg Wah

Smart 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

  1. 230 - Smart Enough to Have Known Better

    This is the final episode of Smart Enough to Know Better. In it we discuss coffee bathroom connection, DnD beholders, bread and beer and the human penis. Then we wrap...

  2. 229.5 - Wah Wonders Why - Everything You Ever Wanted

    Spencer Howson returns to the podcast after 15 years to interview Dan about his book.

  3. 229 - Smart Enough to Slow Horses

    A car accident, The god helmet, diving bells, make your own centaur.

  4. 228 - Smart Enough to Water Bodies

    Interview with Luke Cripps about water cremation.

  5. 227 - Smart Enough to Stretch Legs

    Braces, Measuring the Elongated Man, Forgetting stuff, Drinking cold water and Lead makeup

  6. 226 - Smart Enough to be Dead Wright

    We interview Dr Alison Wright about anatomy science and the prospect of donating our body to science.

  7. 225 - Smart Enough to Plot Holes

    Corpses, Opaque Water, Lazy Brains, Knives, Getting old.

  8. 224 - Smart Enough to Fire Crackers

    Raising a house, EMDR Therapy for PTSD, Pimp my time Gold Coast. Experimenting on Pyro

  9. 223 - Smart Enough to Bear the Cold

    De-orbiting satellites, Car keys, renaming Antarctica, Bad AI doctors, Bull sharks.

  10. 222 - Smart Enough to Get Inta' Webs

    Dan's new book and why it feels nice to read. Origins of eleven and twelve. Experimenting on Spiderman. Dark photons and the double slit experiment.

  11. 221 - Smart Enough to Wail Songs

    Greg went to Norway, Covid news, What astronomers think of metal, Language mapping.

  12. 220 - Smart Enough to Peter Out

    Peter Quinn returns to tell us about Dark Energy

  13. 219 - Smart Enough to Pool Cleaners

    An interviewwith Jon Darbro from the Mosquito Control Association of Australia

  14. 218 - Smart Enough to Memory Holes

    Solar Probe, Beach Waves, UFOs, Extrinsic memory, Sand Worms, and crossed eyes.

  15. 217 - Smart Enough to Eyre Grievances

    Assassin Bugs, Visual Centre, Catchment Areas, AI doctors and more dragons

  16. 216 - Smart Enough to Iron Men

    Pigeon heads, The father of democracy, Dietary Iron, Voting preferences and eating Jewish food..

  17. 215 - Smart Enough to Fire Bugs

    New Moon, Warm blood, Phoenix and Decaf Coffee.

  18. 214 - Smart Enough to Space Time

    Space and time, Cooking pasta, Cheese making and Questions for Greg.

  19. 213 - Smart Enough to Foam Home

    Styrofoam, Ice, Feel good songs, and Silicone rubber.

  20. 212 - Smart Enough to Babble On

    Empathy vs Sympathy, Car Heaters, Onions, Tower of Babel, Avatar the last Air Bender, Definitive Kelvin(s)

  21. 211 - Smart Enough to Have Read Heads

    Carbon Dioxide while you sleep, Dyson Spheres, Redheads don't feel pain, Parasocial relationships, Blood clotting with electricity.

  22. 210 - Smart Enough to Goose Eggs

    Injection site, Hugs, Building on the moon, Golden Eggs

  23. 209 - Smart Enough to Ground Control

    Easter Dates, The Nasal Cycle, Fainting, Anthotypes, Space Cadavers and Long Covid's name.

  24. 208 - Smart Enough to Duck Bills

    Terraforming Mars, Robot Vacuum, Coal ash, Leap years and leap seconds, Cryptozoo: Scrooge McDuck

  25. 207 - Smart Enough to Egg Whites

    Eggs, Red Belly Black Snake, predictions of the future from the past, fireworks in space.

  26. 206 - Smart Enough to have Rose Glasses

    Colour blind glasses experiment, dinosaurs made mammals short lived, chimera monkeys, returning comet.

  27. 205.5 - Wah Wonders Why - Book Club - Children of Existential Crisis

    Greg recommends a book to Dr Natasha sparking an existential crisis.

  28. 205 - Smart Enough to Pink Balls

    Pink Lakes, making oxygen, gems and jewels, Soda makers, Can everyone learn, The centre of the solar system, Smooth Earth

  29. 204 - Smart Enough to Anger Management

    Spinning real fast, Gold toilets, Angry goal making, Romance in the lab.

  30. 203.5 - Wah Wonders Why - Book Club - Animals

    Dr Natasha is back to discuss books about animals

  31. 203 - Smart Enough to Reverse Cars

    Disco Balls, Interchanges, Naming a rover, Antimatter falling down

  32. 202 - Smart Enough to Pan Tones

    Cat allergens, Clashing Colours, Human Yolk, Popcorn

  33. 201 - Smart Enough to Dream Wizards

    Detecting Dark Matter with Ravi Jaiswar

  34. 200.99804688 - Logarithmic Action

    The pointier end

  35. 200.99609375 - Action

    The pointy end.

  36. 200.9921875 - The Deal

    A deal was made.

  37. 200.984375 - A Kugelblitz

    Concerns

  38. 200.96875 - The Genius Idea

    Dan's Great Idea

  39. 200.9375 - White Noise

    We have Deborah Francis White on the podcast to talk about the role of women in professional settings

  40. 200.875 - Texas Tea

    Greg writes a story. Dan needs a fuel source

  41. 200.75 - Torporman

    AI poetry, Hiberation and a sketch about the Frog and the Scorpian.

  42. 200.5 - Tortoise Head

    New Logo and other Greg does a Pimp my Time in Egypt

  43. 200 - Smart Enough to Cube Balls

    Dark Sky, Gelatonous cubes, and a week on a planet.

  44. 199 - Smart Enough to Taste Tests

    Skin Cancer, Deep time, Salt and Snow.

  45. 198 - Smart Enough to Unseat Belts

    UFOs, Induction stoves, Office Loyalty, Covid Dangers, T-rex mouths.

  46. 197 - Smart Enough to Bug Reports

    How crazy did COVID make us? Where the heart lies. A big Cicada. The end of civilization.

  47. 196.5 - Wah Wonders Why - In a dark, dark wood

    Greg and Dan talk to Professor Peter Quinn about dark matter. From MACHOS, to WIMPS, to WISPS and even MOND (Modified Newtonian Dynamics).

  48. 196 - Smart Enough to Storm Clouds

    Human Hair, Lightning Strikes and the ever expanding universe.

  49. 195.5 - Wah Wonders Why - Book Club - Girls to the front

    More books reviewed with Dr Natasha this time featuring women authors.

  50. 195 - Smart Enough to Honey Smacks

    Where mammals started, Sugar in wounds, Cryptozoo Avatar, Eating Soap

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Smart 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.

HOSTED BY

Dan Beeston & Greg Wah

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Smart 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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