That's Not How Science Works
Join hosts Caitlin and Nicole as they snark about science in media and discuss why it's good, bad, or just plain ridiculous. TNHSW is using the CW TV show The Flash as a case study for bad science in media, and Caitlin and Nicole are skewering, I mean critiquing, the science in The Flash two episodes at a time. (Nicole would like to take this moment to offer to show the writing team of The Flash how to use Google should they stumble upon this podcast.) However, in between Caitlin suffering/Nicole schadenfreuding through The Flash, TNHSW also covers a variety of media genres, from movies to non-Flash TV shows to books. When Caitlin and Nicole can con them into it, TNHSW also features special guests who provide their real-life science and engineering expertise to the podcast. Basically, TNHSW is like a TED talk, if the presenters were unfiltered and had an unhealthy obsession with Barry Allen. Come for the sarcasm, stay for the cool science facts.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 72 minutes
- Episodes
- 32
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2021
Episode 33: Clearly Dr. Smith Watches A Lot of TV
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-suf…
01:15:01 |
Thu 21 Jan 2021
Episode 32: Netflix, Please Give Us TARS and Coop! | Interstellar (2014)
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 …
01:39:44 |
Tue 15 Sep 2020
Episode 31: Let's Torch That Peach! | The Core (2003)
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 wo…
01:32:56 |
Mon 08 Jun 2020
Episode 30: We're Just Standing Outside the Aliens' Planet with a Boombox | E1 & E2 of Another Life
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 …
01:17:19 |
Mon 25 May 2020
Episode 29: Henry Cavill Clearly Works out with Plutonium | Mission Impossible: Fallout (2018)
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 …
01:41:10 |
Wed 13 May 2020
Episode 28: LOST … in Space! | E3-E5 of Lost in Space (2018) with Out of Contreks Podcast
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 …
01:10:03 |
Mon 27 Apr 2020
Episode 27: In Love with Lady Scientists | The Countess Conspiracy & Beginner's Luck
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.co…
01:25:20 |
Mon 13 Apr 2020
Episode 26: No, COVID-19 Is Not an I Am Legend Situation | Zombie Viruses with Here's Johnny Podcast
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 midd…
01:18:24 |
Sun 29 Mar 2020
Episode 25: Melting into Lava, Wicked Witch Style | Volcano (1997)
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 mist…
01:07:10 |
Mon 16 Mar 2020
Episode 24: Happy Birthday to Us! Q&A
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 birt…
00:49:20 |
Tue 03 Mar 2020
Episode 23: Magic Science, Quite Literally | Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019)
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, Sp…
00:59:17 |
Mon 18 Nov 2019
Episode 21: Who Do We Need to Bribe to Get a Caitlin/Cisco/Fitz/Simmons Crossover Episode? | E1 & E2 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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 a…
01:05:39 |
Tue 03 Sep 2019
Episode 20: Godzilla Is a Time Lord | Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
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 ep…
01:23:56 |
Sat 10 Aug 2019
Episode 19: "Danger, Danger, Will Robinson!" Shouts Larry | E1 & E2 of Lost in Space (2018)
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 li…
01:12:01 |
Mon 22 Jul 2019
Episode 18: It's Emotions All the Way Down | Inside Out (2014)
Nicole and Caitlin are joined by Nicole’s friend Lynn, a neuroscientist who moved to San Francisco from Minnesota and who lived down the street from a bakery that probably sold broccoli pizza. No, s…
01:11:21 |
Mon 08 Jul 2019
Episode 17: WE FINISHED SEASON ONE OF THE FLASH! | E23 & E24 of The Flash
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 SEAS…
01:26:18 |
Fri 28 Jun 2019
Episode 16: As You Know, All Good Generals Quote Shakespeare | Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
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 …
01:24:18 |
Mon 10 Jun 2019
Episode 15: And Somehow the Psychic Gorilla Is Not the Strangest Thing We've Seen on The Flash | E21 & E22 of The Flash
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
Nar…
01:00:10 |
Mon 27 May 2019
Episode 14: Is Caitlin Really a Doctor? What is Caitlin? | E19 & E20 of The Flash
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…
01:26:04 |
Mon 13 May 2019
Episode 13: Long Live Queen Blue | Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
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 discus…
01:25:22 |
Thu 02 May 2019
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