02: How the speed of sound could destroy everything

This week Julian wonders if you can really cook your jumblies with microwaves and 5G, and Trace dives into linguistics and chemistry to learn if the ocean is actually a very broth-forward soup.

QUESTIONS

Julian: "Microwaves are the most common way to use radiation to cook food, could we use radio, gamma, or X-Rays to cook food?" from Aaron

Trace: "What is soup?" from Silas

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This episode of That's Absurd Please Elaborate was written by Trace Dominguez and Julian Huguet, edited by Kyle Sisk, and produced by all three of us.

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This episode Trace indulges us with why chocolate is so popular on valentines day and Julian goes deep on why his body (and everyone else’s for that matter) is such a mess.

QUESTIONS

Julian: "Can the human body “design” be improved on intentionally" from Xander Trace: "Why do people like chocolate so much on special holidays" from Lee

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This episode of That's Absurd Please Elaborate was written by Trace Dominguez and Julian Huguet, edited by Kyle Sisk, and produced by all three of us.

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In this episode, Trace wonders if "Weird" Al Yankovic influenced a generation of people to say "my back teeth are floating," and Julian time travels to the Triassic with a cold (and maybe a chicken).

QUESTIONS

Trace: "Why do my teeth feel like they are floating or vibrating when I really have to go to the bathroom. " from Spencer

Julian: "If you went back in time to see the dinosaurs, would they go extinct from the common cold?" from Nitai

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This episode of That's Absurd Please Elaborate was written by Trace Dominguez and Julian Huguet, edited by Kyle Sisk, and produced by all three of us.

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This episode Trace resets the solar system to see what life would look like on “Wee Earth” and Julian finally learns his left from his right thanks for particle physics.

QUESTIONS

Julian: "If I had some magic communicator to speak to someone in another galaxy, could I explain what "left" and "right" were?" from Anonymous

Trace: "How would have life evolved if Earth was two [to] three times smaller?" from Moma

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CREDITS

This episode of That's Absurd Please Elaborate was written by Trace Dominguez and Julian Huguet, edited by Kyle Sisk, and produced by all three of us.

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This episode we have special guest Ralph Crewe (Writer/Producer, Practical Engineering) who gets exhausted trying to explain continuous breathing, Julian mulls over the least pointy thing (shout out to Pod 007) and Trace takes a Mayan Bak-tun to explain why the heck there are 60 minutes in an hour.

QUESTIONS

Trace: "Are there other systems of timekeeping besides Hours/Minutes/Seconds?" from Julian

Ralph: "Can we evolve or engineer ourselves to breathe continuously?" from Henry in Singapore

Julian: "What is the least-pointy thing?" from Ralph

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This episode Trace cracks the mystery of nuts, and Julian tickles a moose and a buffalo* for science!? You’ll have to listen to find out!

QUESTIONS

Julian: "Is riding a moose more like petting a buffalo or tickling a grizzly bear?" from Brendan F.

Trace: "Are nuts actually fruit pits?" from Sandy in Seattle

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This episode of That's Absurd Please Elaborate was written by Trace Dominguez and Julian Huguet, edited by Kyle Sisk, and produced by all three of us.

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In this week's episode, Julian tracks the history of toilet paper to its source, Trace gives a gorilla some workout advice, and special guest Vanessa Hill grows a whole human after an unfortunate fireworks accident.

QUESTIONS

Julian: "Before the invention of toilet paper, how did people relieve their bottom as to not clog the pipes?" From Vanessa

Trace: "How strong could a gorilla be if it knew proper bodybuilding techniques?" from listener Jaren K.

Vanessa: "With just a little chunk of my tissue and blood, how much could an alien figure out about what humans are and look like, and specifically what about me could they find out?" from listener Aaron H.

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CREDITS

This episode of That's Absurd Please Elaborate was written by Trace Dominguez and Julian Huguet, edited by Kyle Sisk, and produced by all three of us. Special thanks to our guest, Vanessa Hill.

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This week Trace explains why organic doesn’t mean what you think it means and Julian researches whether grizzly bears have more biological variation than humans do!

Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate. We're most thankful for YOU listening to this little show.

QUESTIONS

Trace: "If we only ate organic vegetables how many people would starve?" from listener Chris J.

Julian: "Why do humans come in so many more sorts of shapes and colors than other species?" from listener Abbie G.

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This episode Julian takes a pole on the magnetic dynamo inside our planet, and Trace explores how 19th century French landscaping grew on everyone.

QUESTIONS

Julian: "Could you wirelessly charge using the Earth’s magnetic field?" from listener 26Matso

Trace: "Who invented the Lawn?" from listener Brian M.

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CREDITS

This episode of That's Absurd Please Elaborate was written by Trace Dominguez and Julian Huguet, edited by Kyle Sisk, and produced by all three of us.

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In this (very scary) episode, Julian loses his head (no one seems to notice) and Trace unleashes the ultimate nightMare: an apex predator HORSE! WHINNY! THUNDER CLAP! ORGAN MUSIC!!!

QUESTIONS

Julian: "How long could we survive without a head?" from Trace

Trace: "What if horses were apex predators?" from listener Meg

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This episode of That's Absurd Please Elaborate was written by Trace Dominguez and Julian Huguet, edited by Kyle Sisk, and produced by all three of us.

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