The SciSpeak crew gathers once again to find out how the weird structure of the octopus brain can lead to master escape artists. Also, dick arms. Popular with fans of Fox's Prison Break and tentacle porn enthusiasts.

#26 Octopuses part 2: Octocommunism

The SciSpeak team dives in to the life of the humble octopus. Wrap your tentacles around some knowledge!

#26 Octopuses part 1

Scientifically Speaking is back and better than ever! Joining Shane and Dave are Colleen, Reid and Phillip to discuss the ever-perplexing Y2K bug. What actually happened? Was there ever really cause for concern? What are computers, really? How do numbers work? What's a number? What is time? Will we answer all of these questions? You'll have to listen to find out!

#25 The Y2K Bug

Continuing our massive deep dive into the world of spiders, Dave tells Zach and Shane more about spier sex. spider families, and other things that are like spiders but aren't quite spiders!

#24 Spiders part 2

Dave gets really excited and tells Zach and Shane a lot of things about spiders. And then we run out of time! To be continued...

#23 Spiders part 1

Shane is temporarily replaced by Alyssa, who teaches Zach and Dave about.. just like everything she could think of. Turns out tires and rubber bands are way cooler than you thought!

#22 Things Alyssa Knows (Polymers, Sunscreen, and More!)

Shane brings along special guest Doug to teach Zach and Dave about music.

#21 Music

Zach and Dave are joined by special guest Sarah to talk about the weird, sort of living cell-like organism-like things that are viruses.

#20 Viruses

Zach, Dave, and Shane talk about climate change. Are we completely screwed as a species? Yes. Yes, we are.

#19 Climate Change

Special guest Taylor is back to talk about horrible, terrifying, super cool parasites! Everything is scary and the worst!

#18 Parasites

Deep dives into... well, everything. Myths debunked, problems solved, and new mysteries discovered every episode. Hosted by David Frank, Shane Moore, Colleen Higgins, Reid Allen, and Phillip Diffley.

Zach, Dave, and Shane talk about digestion! Tummy grumbles, pee pee, poo poo, they've got it all.

#17 Digestion

Your hosts, Zach, Shane, and Dave dive deep into sleep, dreams, and more.

#16 Sleep

Zach, Shane, and Dave talk about Mars, Martians, red, and human extraplanetary colonization.

#15 Mars

Shane, Zach, and Dave struggle audibly trying to describe light works, and in doing so, reveal how little they really understand about one of the most important members of the physical world.

#14 Light

Dave, Zach, and Shane discuss the mechanics, health effects, and different types of vaccines.

#13 Vaccines

Dave, Zach, and Shane talk about the Devil's Lettuce, it's possible medicinal uses and how cannibis high really works (well, they try. Turns out it's real weird).

#12 Cannibis

Join Shane, Dave, Zach, and special guest Taylor (and Scott Stapp of Creed! Sort of...) as we talk about sex!

#11 Sex

Join Zach, Dave, and (at least for the last 20 minutes) Shane, the hosts of Scientifically Speaking, as we talk about Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)!

#10 GMO's

Does alternative medicine actually work? What can it treat? Zach, Dave, and Shane dive deep into the world of homeopathy, chiropractics, and crystals.

#9 Alternative Medicine

How do babies learn language? Can your newborn really do math? Answer these burning questions and more as Zach, Dave and Shane learn about babies!

#8 Babies

I wish you guys could have continued this Podcast! Anyway, thanks for the content. I learned a ton and you guys made it easy to digest while making it entertaining. Thanks fellas!

Funny and informative!

Poor quality and fairly immature sounding hosts.

Good topics, bad execution

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