Science, Actually Presents : The Nerd and the Scientist

At last, Kovi and Benjamin meet again for the first time for the last time. It is a period of science skepticism in the world. A fledgling podcast, recording from a hidden location, had just finished…

Benjamin used to be super impressed with Kovi's profession, but when he learned that back in 1937 all you needed was some wood, piece of sheet metal, and a few parts from a broken down Model T... eh,…

Kovi and Benjamin kick off season three of The Nerd and the Scientist with an episode about water worlds. Tune in as they discuss many of the worlds we know have water, and worlds for which the data …

There are so many things in our day-to-day lives that we take for granted that got their start as part of humanity's greatest endeavor - exploring the universe. Before memory foam mattresses carried …

There are so many things in our day-to-day lives that we take for granted that got their start as part of humanity's greatest endeavor - exploring the universe. The first, true laptop computer flew o…

Set phasers to science! You know that cellphone in your hand? You can thank Star Trek for that. Medical diagnosis equipment at the hospital? Thank Star Trek. Beaming? Yeah, it works. Right now. Here …

Are Kovi and Benjamin neuroscientists? NOPE! ...but they think a lot, and got to thinking about thinking, which gave them a thought, "let's talk about thinking!" Join the lads from Fun Fact Science a…

What came first - black holes or the galaxies? Find out as Kovi and Benjamin are joined by Dr. Markus Mosbech, and discuss cosmology, astroparticle physics, and possible death and serious injury caus…

How far away are things in space? A parsec is a measurement of distance - not time - unless you're Han Solo. Eight Taylor Swifts flew by Earth the other day - or were those alpacas? Kovi and Benjamin…

Will the luna-cy ever stop? Get it? Luna? Moon? Hello? Holy smokes Kovi and Benjamin think they're funny - and they're in love with the Moon! It's the biggest and most familiar object in the sky afte…

Kovi and Benjamin are joined by their very first guest, Dr. Dimos Katsis - former Blue Origin rocketologist, clean energy aficionado, and cohost of the LuxeSci podcast. We discuss Blue Origin's New S…

Purely by coincidence, the second episode of the first season and this episode - the second episode of the second season - are about how we classify things in space! Benjamin is, shall we say, just a…

The first episode of our second season! The second episode of a two-parter! Kovi and Benjamin dive once again into some of science's weirdest NOPE's and mull over spacecraft crashing into our planet,…

In the beginning there was only ice! (say Welteislehre three times fast!) Venus was comet before it was a planet! The Moon doesn't turn! Bigfoot seen on Mars! Kovi and Benjamin discuss some of scienc…

From ancient stone calendars to the cosmic calendar, can Kovi and Benjamin cram 10,000 years of humans documenting the seasons and the passage of time into 30 minutes? NOPE! They do try - and made up…

Saturn's rings are the biggest in the Solar System, but not the only ones? Stars don't twinkle? Mercury's the closest planet to our Sun, but has glaciers? What the what? Listen to part two of Kovi an…

Black holes don't suck, the Sun is not on fire, and the Moon doesn't have a dark side - just a plain 'ol boring 'far side'. Join Kovi and Benjamin for part one of a two part series where they share a…

Kovi and Benjamin bumble their way through an episode about asteroids, a nameless astrophysicist, and the Beatles. And what's the deal with M-class? M-class asteroids, and M-class stars, and M-class …