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Science, Actually Presents : The Nerd and the Scientist

Science, Actually

Science

Comedy

Frequency: 1 episode/12d. Total Eps: 77

Astrophysicist Kovi Rose and scicommer Benjamin Salles love space, and bad puns, and are united in their shared belief that they're brilliantly funny.

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#78
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#86
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#80
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23/03/2026
#72
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22/03/2026
#65

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Fellowship of the Sciences : Guest : Zoe Xirocostas

Season 8 · Episode 7

Friday, April 3, 2026 • Duration 59:34

Dr. Zoe Xirocostas joins Kovi and Benjamin to talk about peer reviews, getting grants for research, the effort behind getting a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), and creating mutant super plants that can survive any habitat.

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Transatlantic Gravitas : Guest : Daniel Orvomaa

Season 8 · Episode 6

Thursday, March 19, 2026 • Duration 01:22:45

How do we explain this one? It's the 'Part Two' of Kovi and Benjamin's previous episode where they were waiting for their guest, Daniel Orvomaa of the Talking Ass podcast, who never showed up. It's 'Part Two' of a double episode done with the Talking Ass - 'Part One' of which is available on the Talking Ass right now. It's also Daniel's third time on the show but only his second time rapid-firing through the Questions & Quibbles at the end. Kovi kicks us off talking about islands and atoms, and then the gang discusses what's going on with our moon missions?

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Oh Danny Boy, The Nerds, The Nerds Are Calling...

Season 8 · Episode 5

Thursday, March 5, 2026 • Duration 46:01

Hot Dogs and Toilet Paper and Action Figures, OH MY! All studied up and ready to record a double episode with the Talking Ass' very own Daniel Orvomaa - Daniel had a scheduling mix up, didn't make it, and that left Kovi and Benjamin just riffing. Well, we didn't get all dressed up for nothing! The boys talk about Vegas shows and try out some new Questions & Quibbles questions for future guests.

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When Protoplanetary Disks Start Throwing Things : Guest : Naman Bajaj

Season 8 · Episode 4

Thursday, February 19, 2026 • Duration 53:14

There are 1.5 million freshly minted engineers in India every year. One of them, this week's guest Naman Bajaj, said, "well, I guess they've got enough of those," changed course, became an astronomer, scored an insane amount of time on JWST (that, in itself, is amazing - which totally rocked Kovi's and Benjamin's minds), and found that protoplanetary disks - baby solar systems - lose 85-90% of their original mass by the time they're done forming. They do so in tremendous, huge jets - some of which, in turn, spark the beginnings of other baby solar systems.

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Zel’Dovich Pancakes

Season 8 · Episode 3

Thursday, February 5, 2026 • Duration 48:58

Kovi and Benjamin were getting their questions and notes in order, preparing for another amazing episode with another amazing guest - when there was a sudden reschedule that left the boys alone, unprepared, and unsupervised. Join the gents as they just talk... well... they way they usually talk - NERD TALK. From NORAD, to data science, to something that goes great with maple, strawberry or blueberry syrup - Zel’Dovich Pancakes!

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I Know You Are But What Am Ion?

Season 8 · Episode 2

Thursday, January 8, 2026 • Duration 55:25

In this episode, Kovi and Benjamin dive headfirst into the Ig Nobel Prize, science’s annual celebration of research that makes you laugh first and think later. The lads cover everything from the prize’s origins and its wonderfully weird traditions to the unforgettable “winners” themselves, all while celebrating the curious, human side of scientific discovery. It is a reminder that science is not just serious. Sometimes it is very, very funny.

And because the Ig Nobels deserve a little swagger:

Iggy Iggy Iggy, can’t you see

Sometimes your prize entertains me

Thank you, Biggie.

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Just Shooting The Shtars : Guest : Space Case Sarah

Season 8 · Episode 1

Thursday, December 25, 2025 • Duration 01:02:54

Everybody look busy! Our boss is back. For those of you who don't know, Kovi and Benjamin first nerded together as co-hosts on the Space Case Sarah Show, hosted by our return guest - the space case herself - Sarah Treadwell. Tune in to hear about her PhD journey, being a professional science communicator, what her son's favorite planet name is (nope, not what we thought either), and what does one actually do with a space inflatable planetarium?

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99 Problems And Nerds Aint One : Guest : David Ezrakhovich

Season 7 · Episode 10

Thursday, December 11, 2025 • Duration 01:04:01

Do you think about databases? Do you think like a databse? This week's guest David Ezrakhovich does. Listen to Kovi and Benjamin's 70th episode (holy moly 70!) as David shares with us how his journey and his mindset led him to becoming a multi-disciplinary engineer. ...and all that happens somewhere in the middle of three nerds being nerds.

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Say Hello To My Lunar Friend! : Guest : Howard Isaacson

Season 7 · Episode 9

Thursday, November 27, 2025 • Duration 01:06:33

Where do 'nearby stars' end and 'distant stars' begin? Learn the answer to that question from UC Berkeley astronomer Howard Isaacson! Kovi and Benjamin swoon as Howard gets romantic about astronomy, his love of exoplanets, black holes, and the search for life in the universe.

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Diamonds are a high-pressure scientist's best friend : Guest : Helen Maynard Casley

Season 7 · Episode 8

Thursday, November 13, 2025 • Duration 01:08:23

Dr. Helen Maynard Casley, (one of) THE principal scientists at ANSTO (Australia's Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation), sets Kovi's and Benjamin's brains alight as she talks about working on the Wombat (not an acronym - Australians just like naming things after animals). Wombat is a high intensity neutron diffractometer that Dr. Helen uses to just scoop some neutrons out of a working nuclear reactor. You know, for kicks! You'd think that line of work would make someone glow, but not so! The reason she glows - or glowed - was when she helped set the Guinness World Record for longest glow necklace!

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