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The Larrikin Podcast

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'Larrikin' is an Australian-English word for someone who goes against the grain and sees the world differently. These fresh eyes allow you to approach a problem with ingenuity. And that ingenuity breeds people we call 'trailblazers.'This is a podcast about such people and ideas.

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Episodes

  1. Pregnancy Quiz

    pregnancy quiz with Lenny and kevin and Fatherhood With The Honorable Kevin Holmes

  2. Immune System Quiz- Eileen Yakscoe

    In today's podcast, I quiz my sister 'Daniel Danielson' aka Eileen Yakscoe about things I learned from Phillip Dettmer's book. I recently read the best science book I've ever read: 'Immune' by Phillip Dettmer. Its explanations are based on first principles that open the door to thinking about the...

  3. Vaccine means 'Cow Juice'

    I said adenoviruses enter the cell's nucleus- this isn't true. My mistake. But time is short, so I just posted it anyway cause I like to hear Aidan's song and it doesn't make much sense without our conversation

  4. Movie IV: King Kong vs Godzilla

    you don't have to watch movies anymore, we'll definitely watch them and then tell you how they went. this episode was inspired by sarah black and ben flores https://twitter.com/pleasesavemepod?lang=en https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGCTSSWT4lg...

  5. Remembering the Wedding with Nick Hussey

    https://www.thehusseyteam.com/ https://www.zillow.com/profile/brian5457 Making a podcast with our guest's experiences after this. Making a podcast with Nick Hussey on misinformation after that.

  6. Shitty on Diabetes with Nora

    Find Nora @nora_yakscoe on Instagram

  7. Life Coaching A Caveman with The Real James P

    Our brains finished evolving 50,000 years ago and we are stuck this way. Are we stuck in our ways? Are we frozen in time, like my mistake in this episode of saying "menstruation" instead of "menopause?" Jake is optimistic that we may be less stuck than we think.

  8. Creating Comedy with Peter Sullivan

    Peter Sullivan on twitter: @_ImSully on youtube: Peter Sullivan Sully talks about his farts, creative process, writing for Howie Mandel, performing nude, and how stand up can be lonely.

  9. plants and medicine

    The intersection between botany and medicine ft. Dr. Aidan Kaye Bark of the willow tree is turned into Aspirin. Bark of the Cinchona Tree is turned into Quinine- the anti-malarial drug you enjoy in your average gin and tonic. Tonic water is sugar mixed with cinchona bark. But British colonizers...

  10. Dream

    One reason we go into REM sleep, the time at night when we dream the most, is because it keeps the brain warm. When we are cold, we shiver. When we dream, our brain "shivers." But is there any meaning to our nightly shivers? I don't know. But I had fun exploring the idea with my friends. Music…

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  11. a made up story about the tutu

    a made up story about the origin of the word tutu

  12. Dirty Bird

    A group of owls is called a parliament. A group of larrikins googling bird facts is a called a podcast. We talk about bird name origins and etymologies, followed by bird behavior and over sharing about my penis. Please consider donating to teamtrees.org. One dollar equals one native tree. Plant…

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  13. Bird Chatter

    I sit down in the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove with program director, Carrie Barron, to briefly discuss bird conservation. One solution was counterintuitive to me. Carrie explains that to save the native birds, we should plant native plants. Plant the tree->to bring the insect->to…

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  14. Girly Bits

    an eponym is a word named after someone. all body parts that have eponym are named after dudes. not cool. girls have bodies too, yo.

  15. Dirty Anatomy

    usually greeks and romans named the body off of what they saw. more often than not, they named the body after titties

  16. An Atypical Travel Trip

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trachilos_footprints

  17. Happy Christmas

    http://larrikin.libsyn.com/

  18. Riddles With Mom-mom

    I've been collecting riddles over the years. I try some of them out on my mom-mom.

  19. Germs

    Based on Ed Yong's "Multitudes"

  20. Instincts

    Inspired by Supernormal Stimuli by Deirdre Barrett buy it here: https://smile.amazon.com/Supernormal-Stimuli-Overran-Evolutionary-Purpose/dp/039306848X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1496907349&sr=8-1&keywords=supernormal+stimuli

  21. The Larrikin- Oxymoron

    This podcast was inspired by the book David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell Buy it here: https://smile.amazon.com/David-Goliath-Underdogs-Misfits-Battling/dp/0316204374/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485236189&sr=8-1&keywords=david+and+goliath+malcolm+gladwell

  22. The Larrikin- Rhetoric and Repetition

    Repeat Stuff Repeat Stuff Repeat Stfu Repeat Stuff

  23. The Larrikin- The Five Senses Podcast

    My two centses on our five senses. Source saying we don't regenerate neurons in the olfactory bulb: http://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(12)00341-8 A few video sources: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWGnWkUjYqae9oPgkXp_EmxUL4y_qq3C6 A few books: Universal Sense by Seth Horowitz...

  24. The Larrikin- Alphabetical Brooding

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  25. The Larrikin- Circuitous Nature of Music

    Ya know.. like.. music.. like.. changes and stuff. Email me feedback at [email protected]

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

'Larrikin' is an Australian-English word for someone who goes against the grain and sees the world differently. These fresh eyes allow you to approach a problem with ingenuity. And that ingenuity breeds people we call 'trailblazers.'This is a podcast about such people and ideas.

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'Larrikin' is an Australian-English word for someone who goes against the grain and sees the world differently. These fresh eyes allow you to approach a problem with ingenuity. And that ingenuity breeds people we call 'trailblazers.'This is a podcast about such people and ideas.

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