This is another podcast source that I wanted to tell you about because I kinda love it. I think my favorite type are half-science and half-comedy, or the ones that pair a scientist and a comedian or similar. This one has Brian Cox and Robin Ince hosting, and other people as guests.
They don't go too deeply into the science, but they do tend to have someone with a science background as a guest to explain some things about their main subject. It's more like a discussion of science than a lesson about it, and they keep things light and funny.
*Spoilers for one of my favorite running gags on the show*
One of the running jokes is about Schrodinger's Strawberry. It started when they were discussing the Ig Nobel Prize and a guy who got it for, among other things, levitating a frog with magnets. It was pointed out that it was a living frog, so the guy talking about what other things got levitated in this experiment said that they also did it to a dead strawberry, which started a discussion about whether a strawberry is alive or dead.
One of the guests on that episode was a theologian and got pulled in to discuss it to, leading to a wonderful line about her not being prepared to discuss the state of strawberries and their souls.
To end the argument, Robin Ince suggested we just put the strawberry in a box and it can be both alive and dead--a reference to Schrodinger, which is why it's now Schrodinger's strawberry.
That didn't end it though, because it came up again several times with points to or against the strawberry being alive, including one person suggesting that, since it's covered in seeds, it's technically alive in the way an anthill is alive. Or a city. Another guest pointed out that the strawberry counts, for them, as never having been alive like you wouldn't consider hair alive.
Recently, I was listening to an episode on dreaming and one of them said that their recent dream was being chased by a monster strawberry and not knowing if it's alive or dead.
*End Spoilers*
The entire series (or at least the first 90 episodes) is pretty good and I highly suggest it. The sources below will direct you to the show if you are interested.
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