#18 Parasites

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.

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

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!

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!

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...

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!

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

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

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