Smart Enough to Know Better

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Smart Enough to Know Better

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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    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...

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    229.5 - Wah Wonders Why - Everything You Ever Wanted

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

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    229 - Smart Enough to Slow Horses

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

  4. 317

    228 - Smart Enough to Water Bodies

    Interview with Luke Cripps about water cremation.

  5. 316

    227 - Smart Enough to Stretch Legs

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

  6. 315

    226 - Smart Enough to be Dead Wright

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

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    225 - Smart Enough to Plot Holes

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

  8. 313

    224 - Smart Enough to Fire Crackers

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

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    223 - Smart Enough to Bear the Cold

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

  10. 311

    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.

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    221 - Smart Enough to Wail Songs

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

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    220 - Smart Enough to Peter Out

    Peter Quinn returns to tell us about Dark Energy

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    219 - Smart Enough to Pool Cleaners

    An interviewwith Jon Darbro from the Mosquito Control Association of Australia

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    218 - Smart Enough to Memory Holes

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

  15. 306

    217 - Smart Enough to Eyre Grievances

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

  16. 305

    216 - Smart Enough to Iron Men

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

  17. 304

    215 - Smart Enough to Fire Bugs

    New Moon, Warm blood, Phoenix and Decaf Coffee.

  18. 303

    214 - Smart Enough to Space Time

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

  19. 302

    213 - Smart Enough to Foam Home

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

  20. 301

    212 - Smart Enough to Babble On

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

  21. 300

    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. 299

    210 - Smart Enough to Goose Eggs

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

  23. 298

    209 - Smart Enough to Ground Control

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

  24. 297

    208 - Smart Enough to Duck Bills

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

  25. 296

    207 - Smart Enough to Egg Whites

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

  26. 295

    206 - Smart Enough to have Rose Glasses

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

  27. 294

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

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

  28. 293

    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. 292

    204 - Smart Enough to Anger Management

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

  30. 291

    203.5 - Wah Wonders Why - Book Club - Animals

    Dr Natasha is back to discuss books about animals

  31. 290

    203 - Smart Enough to Reverse Cars

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

  32. 289

    202 - Smart Enough to Pan Tones

    Cat allergens, Clashing Colours, Human Yolk, Popcorn

  33. 288

    201 - Smart Enough to Dream Wizards

    Detecting Dark Matter with Ravi Jaiswar

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    200.99609375 - Action

    The pointy end.

  36. 285

    200.9921875 - The Deal

    A deal was made.

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    200.9375 - White Noise

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

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    200.875 - Texas Tea

    Greg writes a story. Dan needs a fuel source

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    200.75 - Torporman

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

  42. 279

    200.5 - Tortoise Head

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

  43. 278

    200 - Smart Enough to Cube Balls

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

  44. 277

    199 - Smart Enough to Taste Tests

    Skin Cancer, Deep time, Salt and Snow.

  45. 276

    198 - Smart Enough to Unseat Belts

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

  46. 275

    197 - Smart Enough to Bug Reports

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

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    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).

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    196 - Smart Enough to Storm Clouds

    Human Hair, Lightning Strikes and the ever expanding universe.

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

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

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    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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