We’re back! Caitlin finally edited the episode! In fact, you might say that this episode was Lost … on Caitlin’s Hard Drive. In this episode, Caitlin and Nicole are joined again by Caitlin’s long-suffering brother Ryan to discuss episodes 6 and 7 of Lost in Space. (Stars alive, when will we get through this series? How much more can I take? [sobs internally] ) Join us in this episode to discuss black holes, tar pits, and puzzling through what the heck the writers were trying to accomplish...

It turns out that Caitlin and Nicole have multiple rocket scientist friends! Longtime friend of the podcast Space Nicole joins our hosts along with newtime friend of the podcast Grant to discuss the Nolan space behemoth, Interstellar. There is … a lot to unpack in this movie. Some of the science is surprisingly good, which makes sense considering that Nolan consulted with actual physicists during the production of the film (Flash writers, take notes). Some of the science is, well, odd, to say...

We have come to a movie that is apparently somewhat infamous in the scientific community for its terrible and ridiculous science: The Core. Patricia joins us once again to discuss how plausible it would be that the Earth’s core would stop spinning, that we could drill down to the core, and that we could restart it with nuclear weapons! If your guess was, wow, that sounds insanely implausible, ding ding ding, you got it right! If you thought, huh, that sounds like something that is a very...

Well … this episode ended up being a bit of a mess for reasons that are explained therein. But you know what? It kind of fits because we’re covering episodes 1 and 2 of Another Life, and this show is a lot of a mess. We’re joined by our longtime podcast friend Space Nicole for the ride. In this episode we discuss the whole gamut of crazy science: - How dark matter isn’t a scary cloud - How pigeons navigate with but don’t produce infrasound - Why space helmets don’t have a retractable...

You mission, should you choose to accept it, is to listen to this podcast episode in which we discuss all of the ridiculous science in Mission Impossible: Fallout, a movie that seems to know as much about plutonium as I know about Black Sabbath — which is to say, basically nothing other than the fact that heavy metal is involved. And, of course, because we’re discussing plutonium, we are joined by longtime friend of the podcast and nuclear scientist, Madicken! Because this isn’t just the...

To the chagrin of everyone involved except, perhaps, Caitlin, we have returned to cover three more episodes of the Netflix prestige show Lost in Space. Caitlin and Nicole are also joined by Ryan and Brady from their sister podcast Out of Contreks to discuss all that … didn’t … happen in these three episodes. Believe me, there was a ton of ranting that I cut out, though some of that has been preserved in the outtakes on the blog post for this episode. Find the articles for the episode here,...

Find the articles for the episode here: thatsnotscience.com/all-episodes/episode-27. Find us all on Twitter: Caitlin: twitter.com/CaitlinVanasse Nicole: twitter.com/NicoleLuckless Deboki: twitter.com/okidoki_boki TNHSW Podcast: twitter.com/TNHSWpod TNHSW on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tnhswpod thatsnotscience.com Kaleidoscope Media Network: KMN on Twitter: twitter.com/KaleidoNetwork KMN on Instagram: www.instagram.com/kaleidoscopemedianetwork KMN email:...

Welcome to the apocalypse, my friends. Wait, that sounds really bad with everyone currently in self isolation from COVID-19. We at That’s Not How Science Works don’t actually think we’re in the middle of a real apocalypse. The current pandemic will eventually pass, so hang in there! Wash your hands! Self isolate! Don’t touch your face! But in this episode we’re joined by Larry and Justin from the Here’s Johnny podcast to discuss zombies and viruses. You know, the classic fictional...

Caitlin and Nicole are joined by Nicole’s friend Patricia, who is a geophysicist and studies volcanoes. (No, Patricia is not a vulcanologist. That’s a different thing. Nicole already made that mistake.) Per Patricia’s request, the group has gathered together to discuss the cheesy 1997 disaster movie, creatively named "Volcano”. Patricia is here to answer all of your lava-related questions? Can volcanoes just shoot out of the ground like daisies? How hard is it to outrun a lava flow? If...

Heeeeeeeeeeey, we haven’t forgotten about the fact that we have a podcast! In this episode Nicole and Caitlin celebrate our one-year anniversary, which was … some … time ago. But hey, it’s our birthday, so we get to celebrate it the way we want to, right? Right? RIGHT? At any rate, since lots of people voted in our “Which TV show should we watch next?” poll but didn’t actually send us any questions to answer for our anniversary celebration, Nicole and Caitlin discuss some questions that...

We were on an unannounced hiatus (let’s face it, all our hiatuses are unannounced), but we have returned! Caitlin and a (very congested) Nicole are back to talking about Marvel and, in particular, Spider-Man: Far from Home. The duo discuss the science of magic and just how far we are from real holograms. We also talk about the quite real and quite scary realm of deep fakes. What we do not discuss is what our superhero names would be, which in retrospect seems like a huge oversight. ...

It’s here, folks. Our very first crossover episode on That’s Not How Science Works. Katie and Audrey from our sister podcast on the Kaleidoscope Media Network, Wizard Studies: Perusing All Things Potter, join Caitlin and Nicole to discuss the Hogwarts house mascots. Specifically, the Wizard Studies ladies give us a background on each of the Hogwarts houses. Caitlin and Nicole then discuss whether the animal that J.K. Rowling selected for each house matches that house’s traits and provide...

Alrighty, folks, we’ve come to the last of our alternative Flash shows: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. And we’re joined by the fabulous Nicole Sweeney of Snark Squad and Complexly! Woah, Caitlin and Nicole Prime are dazzled by her internet celebrity! And yes, obviously, Sweeney was informed of the rules for challenging Nicole Prime for Supreme Nicole of the Nerdy Podcasts, but she declined, to Nicole Prime’s great relief. We discuss the weirdness of messing with alien technology that’s...

The OG Godzilla team is back together to discuss Godzilla: King of the Monsters, the sequel to the 2014 Godzilla. And wow. Just wow. The plot is something. There is a lot to talk about in this episode. How you can’t just mix together animal sounds to make a magical bioacoustic that allows you to talk to giant monsters. How monsters can’t just give off magic radiation that will heal the planet. How Caitlin, Nicole, and Madicken should apparently start an ASMR podcast with electronic...

Longtime TNHSW buddy Space Nicole is back to talk about Netflix’s reboot of Lost in Space. Will she challenge Nicole Prime to be Supreme Nicole of the Nerdy Podcasts? I guess you’ll just have to listen to find out! At any rate, there’s plenty of danger in the first two episodes of Netflix’s Lost in Space reboot and plenty more bad science, but the robot only says, “Danger, Will Robinson” once. ONCE. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? At any rate, back to science. Double Nicole and Caitlin discuss...

Nicole and Caitlin are joined by Nicole’s friend Lynn, a neuroscientist who moved to San Francisco from California and who lived down the street from a bakery that probably sold broccoli pizza. No, seriously. This time Nicole isn’t just making stuff up for the sake of snarkiness. The TNHSW crew discusses the science of the brain and memory in the context of Inside Out. They also theorize about the brainy worldbuilding of the movie and its implications (as you do). Once again, if you want...

They doubted us. They told us we were crazy. They said it we would never be able to accomplish this, that it would be too much for any one podcast to handle alone. BUT WE DID IT. WE FINISHED SEASON ONE OF THE FLASH, HATERS. Who exactly are these haters, you ask? Doesn’t matter, moving on. In this episode, Caitlin and Nicole discuss the last episode of season one of The Flash and the first episode of season two of The Flash with their excellent friend Natalie! There is much ranting...

The internet, the final frontier. These are the voyages of That’s Not How Science Works. To expose strange new science. To fact check new movies and new TV shows. To boldly go where no podcaster has gone before! Yes, that’s right folks. We’ve come to the mother of all science fiction shows: Star Trek. Caitlin and Nicole are joined by their friend Amanda to discuss one of the underrated Star Trek movies, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. We discuss some of the less plausible...

Articles: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sewer Gas … But Were Afraid to Ask: https://www.marionohio.us/wpc/sewer_gas Powering CERN: https://home.cern/science/engineering/powering-cern Narwhal genetic diversity write-up in Science: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/05/narwhals-beat-death-sentence-low-genetic-diversity Find the rest of the articles for the episode here: https://thatsnotscience.com/all-episodes/episode-15. Find us all on Twitter: Caitlin:...

Michael took a break from packing up his cabin in Alaska in preparation to moving to the North Pole to discuss two more episodes of The Flash with us! First, we talk about finding bodies underground using sound and light (once again, FBI, Nicole says, “Hi”). We also discuss programmable matter and how a person cannot be made of it. Honestly, do the writers of The Flash know what a cell is? We then move into discussing applying stimulation to trigger lucid dreaming, listening to binaural...

Caitlin and Nicole break from The Flash to talk about a movie that Nicole really loved and Caitlin really didn’t — Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom! Caitlin shows off her animal studies cred by discussing why you can’t just give a blood transfusion to a velociraptor from a T-rex … even if that velociraptor is by far the best character in the movie. Nicole and Caitlin also talk about the hazards of randomly shooting tranquilizers into a grown man, as well as the surprisingly good depiction of...

Space Nicole is back to talk about The Flash, and she doesn’t even want to fight Nicole Prime for the title of “Supreme Nicole of the Nerdy Podcasts”! That is a huge relief to Nicole Prime. She did not want to rain fire and destruction on her friend. First, we talk about Mark Hamill, poison, and bombs. Yes, we are still referring to The Flash and not the 90s Batman animated series. Also, guess who did the research on bomb residue? (Dear FBI, Nicole says, “Hi.”) Then, Space Nicole tells...

We’re a big fan of siblings on this show, and this time Caitlin’s brother Ryan joins us to talk about our old, reliable, science-baddie, The Flash. Although, honestly, there’s not that much to talk about with respect to the science this week. No, you cannot travel back in time by running really fast. No, you can’t create a wand that harnesses the weather. No, you can’t create a gun that turns things into gold. We thought those things were obvious. Apparently we were wrong. Writers of...

Hey, it’s time for another break from The Flash! Caitlin and Nicole, who shall henceforth be known as “Nicole Prime,” welcome their friend also named Nicole, who shall henceforth be known as “Space Nicole,” and whom, although having intellect of the highest degree, is understood to serve below Nicole Prime in the TNHSW hierarchy. Should Space Nicole wish to supplant Nicole Prime as Supreme Nicole of the Nerdy Podcasts, Space Nicole must initiate a duel of strength, wits, or love of llamas...