The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves.

This week Leah is picking the movie so it's got a MASSIVE fusion reactor in it. Also it doesn't really understand what people are like but there's a lot of whiskey.

We watched Passengers (Chris Pratt, Jennifer Lawrence, Trolley Problems etc) so you don't have to.

Starring:

Leah Morgan - catastrophic thinking employer and engineer

Steve Cross - arty creative type and the subject of many parasocial relationships

And in an uncredited writing role Leah's partner who says things.

The podcast that treats science with all the seriousness it deserves.

This week we meet the founder of PostDoc Awareness Week, Dr Joan Chang, and get tips on how to get your own research group without following all the rules.

We also talk collagen in beauty products, the vagaries of science funding, and building your own community.

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves.

This week we watched the 2013 Tom Cruise vehicle Oblivion, which was an awful trick to play on a woman who just watched MOON.

Spoilers for Oblivion (2013) and MOON (2009).

Starring:

Leah Morgan - The UK's Face of Fusion

Steve Cross - Listens to vintage vinyl, would never wear a Yankees cap.

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves.

This week we try and find out how to build a career in science communication, with Dr Leigh Wilson from King's College London. Leigh is a neuroscientist, science comms educator and creator of some wonderful projects about the brain.

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves.

This week we watched the 2009 movie MOON, which prompted a discussion about the ethics of the materials of technoscience, and what we'd be willing to suffer to make fusion happen.

Spoilers for MOON (2009). Oh we spoil it so much.

Starring:

Leah Morgan - The UK's Face of Fusion

Steve Cross - SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves.

This week we're joined by Helen Wilkes for a look at the big science stories that are shocking the world all the way back to 2015. Helen doesn't know what a news story is, apparently.

Starring:

Steve Cross - Respecter of Ancient Ways

Helen Wilkes - DNA Copyist

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves.

Today we meet psychiatric genetics researcher turned standup comedian Lynsey Smart to find out about the South-West's nerd-friendly comedy scene and discover what the Raggy Dolls can teach us.

With

Steve Cross - generic nerd

Lynsey Smart - Radio 4 voice haver but Scottish.

The podcast that treats science with all the preparation and seriousness it deserves.

Today we meet Nell the physicist to find out about a new astronomical object that she absolutely didn't make up.

Starring:

Steve Cross - Space monkey.

Nell Grabham - Looks up, understands it.