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High Science begins a series taking an objective view of drugs with an honest, unbiased analysis of long term and short term effects of drugs. We begin with a deep dive into weed and alcohol. Send us episode requests, feedback, questions, and comments! We love getting fan mail! Website: highsciencehq.com Twitter: @highsciencecast Email: highscience2017@gmail.com

Kat’s in charge while John is away. High Science explores why we learn how to use language as well as important stages in social development! Send us episode requests, feedback, questions, and comments! We love getting fan mail! Website: highsciencehq.com Twitter: @highsciencecast Email: highscience2017@gmail.com

Fiftieth episode! High Science tackles science news focusing mainly on the process needed to capture the famous first picture of the M87 black hole! Send us episode requests, feedback, questions, and comments! We love getting fan mail! Website: highsciencehq.com Twitter: @highsciencecast Email: highscience2017@gmail.com

Not many people know about the life of this science legend. High Science dives deep into this man’s life story and discusses his big ideas. Much of the information in this episode comes from a highly recommended biography from Walter Isaacson called Einstein: His Life and Universe. Send us episode requests, feedback, questions, and comments! We love getting fan mail! Website: highsciencehq.com Twitter: @highsciencecast Email: highscience2017@gmail.com

Do we have as much control over our mind as we think we do? High Science explores some famous psychology experiments to try and better understand the often unsettling nature of the human condition. Send us episode requests, feedback, questions, and comments! We love getting fan mail!Website: highsciencehq.comTwitter: @highsciencecastEmail: highscience2017@gmail.com

High Science is back! We take a trip through scientific history to determine how we arrived at our current understanding of atoms. How are they structured? What do they look like? What kind of experiments did we do to figure out how atoms are built? From Democritus to Schrodinger, we explore the evolution of our understanding of stuff. Send us episode requests, feedback, questions, and comments! We love getting fan mail! Twitter: @highsciencecast Email: highscience2017@gmail.com

Otherwise intelligent people are often swayed to believe objectively false ideas. Why is this? High Science takes a balanced approach to the pseudosciences with a guest that is familiar with “alternative medicine”. Can we achieve spirituality without diving headfirst into mysticism? Is it possible to change the minds of even the most adamant supporters of conspiracy theories? Can modern medicine learn anything from the practices of naturopathy? Deep stuff. Send us episode requests, feedback, questions, and comments! We love getting fan mail! Twitter: @highscience2017 Email: highscience2017@gmail.com

Swole is the goal. Size is the prize. Eat ya brotein and lift heavy things. There is a lot of broscience (aka pseudoscience) surrounding fitness and nutrition so High Science attempts to cut through the bullsh*t and give you some solid tips to start your fitness journey. There is also a deep dive into organic chemistry where we break down what each macro-nutrient does for the body. The episode concludes with a discussion on the validity of cow tipping and why a belt is a good weapon to always have on your person. Send us episode requests, feedback, questions, and comments! We love getting fan mail! Twitter: @highscience2017 Email: highscience2017@gmail.com

How did the universe start? How will it end? Will it expand forever or crunch back to a point? If the universe is everything, then what is it expanding into? What does bird poop and the color beige have to do with cosmology? Find out as High Science tackles the small task of discussing the entire history and future of space and time. (Featuring Jake the Astronomer!) Send us episode requests, feedback, questions, and comments! We love getting fan mail! Twitter: @highscience2017 Email: highscience2017@gmail.com

Learn probability and statistics with High Science as we apply these concepts to weighing Korean babies, tricking your friends to win money, and running a sea-creature shaving facility. Send us episode requests, feedback, questions, and comments! We love getting fan mail! Twitter: @highscience2017 Email: highscience2017@gmail.com

How much do different modes of thinking affect our day to day lives? More than you might think. High Science dives into psychology and discusses intuition, working memory, attention, and psychological experiments. Send us episode requests, feedback, questions, and comments! We love getting fan mail! Twitter: @highscience2017 Email: highscience2017@gmail.com

Isaac Newton: one of the greatest figures to grace the scientific world. Also a closet crazy person. High Science discusses the life and times of Sir Isaac Newton, explores his most influential work, and dives into his weirder pursuits (like alchemy and the occult). We also start the episode by answering a fan question! Send us episode requests, feedback, questions, and comments! We love getting fan mail! Twitter: @highscience2017 Email: highscience2017@gmail.com

It's time we explore the mysteries of the only home we've ever known: Planet Earf. We answer the important questions. How do mountains form? If we drilled through the entire planet and jumped in, how long would it take to reach the center? How do we know different layers exist if we never drilled through the crust? What even are earthquakes? High Science explores our rocky spaceship and the processes that shaped it over its 4.6 billion year lifespan. Send us episode requests, feedback, questions, and comments! We love getting fan mail! Twitter: @highscience2017 Email: highscience2017@gmail.com

Guys heads up: we start this episode saying that we recorded the taxonomy episode "last week". We posted the last few episodes in a different order than we recorded them (we recorded this one a while back). In this episode, High Science explores the core ideas of electricity and magnetism. Things can have an intrinsic property known as "charge" and if the charge sits still it does some things and if it moves it does a whole bunch of other things! We explore Coulomb's Law, electric fields, magnetism, basic circuits, and more! Send us episode requests, feedback, questions, and comments! We love getting fan mail! Twitter: @highscience2017 Email: highscience2017@gmail.com

High Science is celebrating its first birthday! We discuss how we started and some favorite our parts of previous episodes. We also get ripped and go on all kinds of sciencey tangents (hence the "and bullsh*t" in the title). We feel all warm and fuzzy that we got this far and we can't thank you guys enough for tuning in! Here's to the coming year. Send us episode requests, feedback, questions, and comments! We love getting fan mail! Twitter: @highscience2017 Email: highscience2017@gmail.com

How close are mammals to reptiles? How much do birds and butterfly have in common? How about polar bears and orchids? High Science dives into the biological classification system known as taxonomy. We explore the history of taxonomy and it's hierarchy. We also dive deep into the plant and fungus kingdoms. We also play a game called "Is THAT a fruit?" and by the end we all question our collective reality. Send us episode requests, feedback, questions, and comments! We love getting fan mail! Twitter: @highscience2017 Email: highscience2017@gmail.com

Sentient juicers... preowned sex-robots... what it means to be conscious... robot rights... High Science discusses artificial intelligence with two special guests: Jake the Astronomer and James the AI Enthusiast.

"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special." Stephen Hawking made amazing contributions to physics through his research on cosmology and black holes. However, what launched him into international fame was his ability to explain complex ideas in simple terms. He gave us all a foothold into a better understanding of our universe and through this, he inspired wonder and curiosity in the face of our mind-bending universe. High Science dives into Hawking's life, legacy, research, and ideas as a tribute to one of the greatest minds of our generation. Exploring his ideas took us from black holes and quantum physics, to philosophy and atheism. “Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet... Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up.” Send us episode requests, feedback, questions, and comments! We love getting fan mail! Twitter: @highscience2017 Email: highscience2017@gmail.com

High Science explores the mechanisms behind sound and music while also breaking down the properties of waves. Send us episode requests, feedback, questions, and comments! We love getting fan mail! Twitter: @highscience2017 Email: highscience2017@gmail.com

A civilization's progress depends heavily on how it obtains and utilizes energy. For most of human history, we used our inefficient meat machines (some call them "bodies") to get things done. Now energy is harvested somewhere in the distance and we can do things like turn on lights or power our sweet, sweet cell phones. High Science explores society's dependence on energy as well as our current green and not-so-green energy sources. Send us episode requests, feedback, questions, and comments! We love getting fan mail! Twitter: @highscience2017 Email: highscience2017@gmail.com