| Episode |
Paper |
| Ep 0 |
Frostquakes in New England |
| Ep 1 |
A real-time fast radio burst: polarization detection and multiwavelength follow-up |
| Ep 2 |
Aerosol generation by raindrop impact on soil |
| Ep 3 |
Dread Risk, September 11, and
Fatal Traffic Accidents |
| Ep 4 |
Geophysics: Tectonics in the Earth’s core |
| Ep 5 |
Accuracy of Smartphone Applications and Wearable Devices for Tracking Physical Activity Data |
| Ep 6 |
Coffee rings and coffee disks: Physics on the edge |
| Ep 7 |
The Asteroid Redirect Mission and Sustainable Human Exploration |
| Ep 8 |
All Models Are Wrong, but Some Are Useful |
| Ep 9 |
How to construct the perfect sandcastle |
| Ep 10 |
The Geometry of Perfect Parking |
| Ep 11 |
Zoology: Here be dragons |
| Ep 12 |
The Gravity Tunnel in a Non-Uniform Earth |
| Ep 13 |
Milk Bioactives May Manipulate Microbes to Mediate Parent-Offspring Conflict |
| Ep 14 |
Engineered Surfaces for Mitigation of Insect Residue Adhesion |
| Ep 15 |
Dynamics of microdroplets over the surface of hot water |
| Ep 16 |
Green School Grounds as Sites for Outdoor Learning: Barriers and Opportunities |
| Ep 17 |
Probing Atmospheric Electric Fields in Thunderstorms through Radio Emission from Cosmic-Ray-Induced Air Showers |
| Ep 18 |
Methane storms as a driver of Titan’s dune orientation |
| Ep 19 |
Pressures produced when penguins pooh—calculations on avian
defaecation |
| Ep 20 |
Tracking Structural Changes in Lipid-based Multicomponent Food Materials due to Oil Migration by Microfocus Small-Angle X-ray Scattering |
| Ep 21 |
Onion artificial muscles |
| Ep 22 |
Are full or empty beer bottles sturdier and does their fracture-threshold suffice to break the human skull? |
| Ep 23 |
Liquid Ropes: A Geometrical Model for Thin Viscous Jet Instabilities |
| Ep 24 |
Perchlorate Behavior in a Municipal Lake Following Fireworks Displays |
| Ep 25 |
Ponytail Motion |
| Ep 26 |
Acoustic imaging of thunder from rocket-triggered lightning |
| Ep 27 |
Months between rejuvenation and volcanic eruption at Yellowstone caldera, Wyoming |
| Ep 28 |
A Sweet Sound: Physicists Reconstruct Primitive Recordings |
| Ep 29 |
Soft-Tissue Vessels and Cellular Preservation in Tyrannosaurus rex |
| Ep 30 |
Air blast produced by the Meteor Crater impact event and a reconstruction of the affected environment |
| Ep 31 |
Tests of cosmic ray radiography for power industry applications |
| Ep 32 |
When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical Modelling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection |
| Ep 33 |
A possible role of social activity to explain differences in publication output among ecologists |
| Ep 34 |
Detection and location of rock falls using seismic and infrasound sensors |
| Ep 35 |
Inferring the global cosmic dust influx to the Earth’s atmosphere from lidar observations of the vertical flux of mesospheric Na |
| Ep 36 |
Effects of caffeine on the human circadian clock in vivo and in vitro |
| Ep 37 |
Drag Moderation by the Melting of an Ice Surface in Contact with Water |
| Ep 38 |
Energy consumption in buildings and female thermal demand |
| Ep 39 |
Aeroelastic Flutter Produces Hummingbird Feather Songs |
| Ep 40 |
Self-sustained nonlinear waves in traffic flow |
| Ep 41 |
The safety of pumpkin carving tools |
| Ep 42 |
Anticrack model for skier triggering of slab avalanches |
| Ep 43 |
Synoptic scale outbreak of self-initiated upward lightning (SIUL) from tall structures during the central U.S. blizzard of 1–2 February 2011 |
| Ep 44 |
Individual differences in bitter taste preferences are associated with antisocial personality traits |
| Ep 45 |
Coffee rings and coffee disks: Physics on the edge |
| Ep 46 |
Creating a urine black hole |
| Ep 47 |
Dunes on planet Tatooine: Observation of barchan migration at the Star Wars film set in Tunisia |
| Ep 48 |
Experience teaches plants to learn faster and forget slower in environments where it matters |
| Ep 49 |
That’s What She Said: Double Entendre Identification |
| Ep 50 |
It’s a Trap: Emperor Palpatine’s Poison Pill |
| Ep 51 |
A framework for estimating stratospheric wind speeds from unknown sources and application to the 2010 December 25 bolide |
| Ep 52 |
Self-Amplification of Solid Friction in Interleaved Assemblies |
| Ep 53 |
Analysis of a Burglargram |
| Ep 54 |
Acoustic Emission from Breaking a Bamboo Chopstick |
| Ep 55 |
Mesoscale texture of cement hydrates |
| Ep 56 |
A review of lunar chronology revealing a preponderance of 4.34–4.37 Ga ages |
| Ep 57 |
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger |
| Ep 58 |
Eye-Tracking Students’ Attention to PowerPoint Photographs in a Science Education Setting |
| Ep 59 |
A Few Goodmen: Surname-Sharing Economist Coauthors |
| Ep 60 |
MyShake: A smartphone seismic network for earthquake early warning and beyond |
| Ep 61 |
The chips are down for Moore’s law |
| Ep 62 |
Human Screams Occupy a Privileged Niche in the Communication Soundscape |
| Ep 63 |
Infinite families of monohedral disk tilings |
| Ep 64 |
P5_2 The Draining of a Lifetime |
| Ep 65 |
Hypnotic suggestion: opportunities for cognitive neuroscience |
| Ep 66 |
Relationship of vibro-mechanical properties and microstructure of wood and varnish interface in string instruments |
| Ep 67 |
No FPF – Joint show with Undersampled Radio |
| Ep 68 |
Off like a shot: scaling of ballistic tongue projection reveals extremely high performance in small chameleons |
| Ep 69 |
A Snapshot-Based Mechanism for Celestial Orientation |
| Ep 70 |
How many pears would a pear packer pack if a pear packer could pack pears at quasi-exogenously varying piece rates? |
| Ep 71 |
Duration of urination does not change with body size |
| Ep 72 |
Swearing as a Response to Pain—Effect of Daily Swearing Frequency |
| Ep 73 |
Impact of meat and Lower Palaeolithic food processing techniques on chewing in humans |
| Ep 74 |
Quantification of Overnight Movement of Birch (Betula pendula) Branches and Foliage with Short Interval Terrestrial Laser Scanning |
| Ep 75 |
Head and neck injury risks in heavy metal: head bangers stuck between rock and a hard bass |
| Ep 76 |
Leaping eels electrify threats, supporting Humboldt’s account of a battle with horses |
| Ep 77 |
Interference puts satellite data at risk |
| Ep 78 |
Cluster failure: Why fMRI inferences for spatial extent have inflated false-positive rates |
| Ep 79 |
Heating of Jupiter’s upper atmosphere above the Great Red Spot |
| Ep 80 |
Eukaryotic opportunists dominate the deep-subsurface biosphere in South Africa |
| Ep 81 |
The Psychology of ‘Pokémon Go’: What’s Fueling the Obsession? |
| Ep 82 |
Acoustic levitation of a large solid sphere |
| Ep 83 |
A review of lunar chronology revealing a preponderance of 4.34–4.37 Ga ages |
| Ep 84 |
Visualization of sneeze ejecta: steps of uid fragmentation leading to respiratory droplets |
| Ep 85 |
Ray Tracking JELL-O Brand Gelatin |
| Ep 86 |
Modelling the failure mechanisms of Michelangelo’s David through small-scale centrifuge experiments |
| Ep 87 |
Measuring recreational visitation at U.S. National Parks with crowd-sourced photographs |
| Ep 88 |
The ethics of human-chicken relationships in video games: the origins of the digital chicken |
| Ep 89 |
Video Games Do Affect Social Outcomes
A Meta-Analytic Review of the Effects of Violent and Prosocial Video Game Play |
| Ep 90 |
Effect of Standing or Walking at a Workstation on Cognitive Function |
| Ep 91 |
Cure for a headache |
| Ep 92 |
The Dorsa Argentea, Mars: Comparison to >5900 Terrestrail Esker Systems and Statistical Tests for Topographic Relationships |
| Ep 93 |
The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute |
| Ep 94 |
Formation of the ‘ Great Unconformity’ as a
trigger for the Cambrian explosion |
| Ep 95 |
An Empirical Investigation into Programming Language Syntax |
| Ep 96 |
Inhibitory spillover: Increased urination urgency facilitates impulse control in unrelated domains |
| Ep 97 |
Inferring Passenger Denial Behavior of Taxi Drivers from Large-Scale Taxi Traces |
| Ep 98 |
Humulone suppresses replication of respiratory syncytial virus and release of IL-8 and RANTES in normal human nasal epithelial cells |
| Ep 99 |
Revisit episodes 19, 22, 76, and 59 |
| Ep 100 |
“So bigge as bigge may be”: tracking size and shape change in domestic livestock in London (AD 1220-1900) |
| Ep 101 |
Depositional evidence for the Kamikaze typhoons and links to changes in typhoon climatology |
| Ep 102 |
Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials |
| Ep 103 |
Shaken, not stirred: bioanalytical study of the antioxidant activities of martinis |
| Ep 104 |
Will humans swim faster or slower in syrup? |
| Ep 105 |
Ingested foreign bodies and societal wealth: three year observational study of swallowed coins |
| Ep 106 |
High heels as supernormal stimuli: How wearing high heels affects judgements of female attractiveness Evolution and Human Behavior |
| Ep 107 |
Evolving Transport Networks With Cellular
Automata Models Inspired by Slime Mould |
| Ep 108 |
Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor? |
| Ep 109 |
The Rise of Mountain Ranges and the Evolution of Humans: A Causal Relation? |
| Ep 110 |
Zealandia: Earth’s Hidden Continent |
| Ep 111 |
Popcorn: critical temperature, jump and sound |
| Ep 112 |
Fast dynamics of water droplets freezing from the outside-in |
| Ep 113 |
Guess Who’s Not Coming to Dinner? Evaluating Online Restaurant Reservations for Disease Surveillance |
| Ep 114 |
Unusual “Love Waves” Recorded Above the Cascadia Subduction Zone |
| Ep 115 |
Walking Like Dinosaurs: Chickens with Artificial Tails Provide Clues about Non-Avian Theropod Locomotion |
| Ep 116 |
Remote detection of buried landmines using a bacterial sensor |
| Ep 117 |
Trajectory of a falling Batman |
| Ep 118 |
Get Lost in Mega-Tunnels Dug by South American Megafauna/a> |
| Ep 119 |
Itch Relief by Mirror Scratching. A Psychophysical Study |
| Ep 120 |
Eukaryotic opportunists dominate the deep-subsurface biosphere in South Africa |
| Ep 121 |
No Fun Paper This Week! |
| Ep 122 |
Fragmentation of Rods by Cascading Cracks: Why Spaghetti Does Not Break in Half |
| Ep 123 |
The Boring Company |
| Ep 124 |
Fragmentation of Rods by Cascading Cracks: Why Spaghetti Does Not Break in Half |
| Ep 125 |
The nature of navel fluff |
| Ep 126 |
IoT Goes Nuclear: Creating a ZigBee Chain Reaction |
| Ep 127 |
Researchers probe explosion of pyrosomes off the Northwest Coast |
| Ep 128 |
The right way to kiss: directionality bias in head-turning during kissing |
| Ep 129 |
On the stability of four-legged tables |
| Ep 130 |
Ants as a powerful biotic agent of olivine and plagioclase dissolution |
| Ep 131 |
Reduced Diversity of Life Around Proxima Centauri and TRAPPIST-1 |
| Ep 132 |
The theory of interstellar trade |
| Ep 133 |
Snow precipitation on Mars driven by cloud-induced night-time convection |
| Ep 134 |
A Prime Case of Chaos |
| Ep 135 |
Fun ways of deciding authorship order |
| Ep 136 |
Comparing 10 Sleep Trackers |
| Ep 137 |
On the Rheology of Cats |
