Where did language come from?

We’re back for our second season of everyone’s favorite educational, marijuana-related podcast! In this episode, the boys dive into how the body works—from muscles, to brains, to something called “lymph”, they discuss almost every system in the body and how it does its job. And of course, their bodies have a healthy amount of THC doing its job as well. 

For more episodes of scHIGHence, visit our website at www.buzzsprout.com/1510018. Note that we do not guarantee that any of the facts we share on this podcast are 100% true… after all, we are high. For more on this topic from a source that you can trust, check out these YouTube videos:

• Crash Course intro to the nervous system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPix_X-9t7E
• SciShow Kids episode about muscles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j918PoWWaB0
•  Crash Course intro to blood and breathing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fxm85Fy4sQ

Theme song by Alexander Nakarada, who you can find on twitter (twitter.com/thenakarada) and Patreon (www.patreon.com/anakarada). 

In our 20th episode, Matt and Brandon are together in person and are ready to discuss flight! From blimps, to helicopters, to airplanes—hear Brandon explain why we’re able to violate the ever‑so‑present law of gravity. Not only that, but you’ll also get a rare, behind-the-scenes look at how the boys brainstorm new podcast ideas—is a tickling-based podcast in their future?!

For more episodes of scHIGHence, visit our website at www.buzzsprout.com/1510018. Note that we do not guarantee that any of the facts we share on this podcast are 100% true… after all, we are high. For more on this topic from a source that you can trust, check out these YouTube videos:

·       SciShow Kids episode on why cruise boats float: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvWrkxzCiaY

·       SciShow episode about how airplanes work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTtI9mrV2ks

·       Peekaboo Kidz video on how birds fly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgO07y9JIIE

Theme song by Alexander Nakarada, who you can find on twitter (twitter.com/thenakarada) and Patreon (www.patreon.com/anakarada).

In this episode, the boys talk about all things "sound"! Like, what is it? If a tree falls and no one's around to hear it, does it make any? What's the sound barrier and how do we store sound files on a computer? Tune in to learn more and also to hear Brandon call himself the "answer daddy" (which we know you've all secretly been waiting for).

For more episodes of scHIGHence, visit our website at www.buzzsprout.com/1510018. Note that we do not guarantee that any of the facts we share on this podcast are 100% true… after all, we are high. For more on this topic from a source that you can trust, check out these YouTube videos:

• SciShow Kids episode about how sound and hearing work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-xKZKxXuu0
• TED-Ed video about the sound barrier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO4_VHM69oI
• Smithsonian video about echolocation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6IF7a24AFk

Theme song by Alexander Nakarada, who you can find on twitter (twitter.com/thenakarada) and Patreon (www.patreon.com/anakarada).

In what might the episode with the lowest ratio of science to high, the boys tackle the question of why people die of old age. They then cover a menagerie of other topics like neutron stars, solar energy, and whether Albert Einstein was a nice guy. Listen in to learn about all these fascinating topics, discussed by two guys who’ve had a bit too much of the devil’s lettuce.

For more episodes of scHIGHence, visit our website at www.buzzsprout.com/1510018. Note that we do not guarantee that any of the facts we share on this podcast are 100% true… after all, we are high. For more on this topic from a source that you can trust, check out these YouTube videos:

• SciShow episode about why we age: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqCo-McgHLw
• SciShow episode about the immortality of jelly fish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kLSiE-eNjw
• PBS Space Time about neutron stars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ou1MckZHTA
• SciShow episode about how solar panels work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uPVZUTLAvA

Theme song by Alexander Nakarada, who you can find on twitter (twitter.com/thenakarada) and Patreon (www.patreon.com/anakarada).

In this episode of scHIGHence, Matt and Brandon go skyward—and end up in some pretty dark places. If the universe is everything that exists how could it be getting bigger? When will the universe end? And what does all of this have to do with the hit 90’s scifi show Sliders?! Hit that download (or play, or whatever) button to find out.

For more episodes of scHIGHence, visit our website at www.buzzsprout.com/1510018. Note that we do not guarantee that any of the facts we share on this podcast are 100% true… after all, we are high. For more on this topic from a source that you can trust, check out these YouTube videos:

• PBS Space Time episode about the universe’s expansion and eventual end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZTb6sfHEX8
• PBS Space Time about the edge of the universe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwwIFcdUFrE
• PBS Space Time about the “many worlds” interpretation of Quantum Physics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNkMC92kFLA

Theme song by Alexander Nakarada, who you can find on twitter (twitter.com/thenakarada) and Patreon (www.patreon.com/anakarada).

Matt and Brandon are back after a hiatus and are ready to discuss all the deepest questions science can answer. They’re starting things off this week with the origin of language: how did we evolve the ability to talk and how is our system for communicating different from the ones that animals use? Tune in to learn some possible answers to these questions and to hear Matt turn one of them into a pitch for an animated musical.

For more episodes of scHIGHence, visit our website at www.buzzsprout.com/1510018. Note that we do not guarantee that any of the facts we share on this podcast are 100% true… after all, we are high. For more on this topic from a source that you can trust, check out these YouTube videos:

• SciShow video on animal communication systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ2ebYNtFUA
• Mocomi video on the evolution of language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VitFvNvRIIY
• Crash Course video on how we can know more about past languages that don’t exist anymore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNkMC92kFLA

Theme song by Alexander Nakarada, who you can find on twitter (twitter.com/thenakarada) and Patreon (www.patreon.com/anakarada).

In our 4/20 special, Matt and Brandon discuss how weed affects your perception of the world around you—how does the brain work and how could a chemical alter that? We also get into a host of other topics, like what best rhymes with “New Year’s”, how to pronounce “Alzheimer’s”, and the different kinds of memory a computer uses. And you thought we were exaggerating when we said it was a special episode...

For more episodes of scHIGHence, visit our website at www.buzzsprout.com/1510018. Note that we do not guarantee that any of the facts we share on this podcast are 100% true… after all, we are high. For more on this topic from a source that you can trust, check out these YouTube videos:

• Crash Course video on synapses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VitFvNvRIIY
• Crash Course video on cognition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-sVnmmw6WY
• SciShow video on THC and the brain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsJzCdFlpyQ

Theme song by Alexander Nakarada, who you can find on twitter (twitter.com/thenakarada) and Patreon (www.patreon.com/anakarada).

In this episode, the boys tackle human evolution. Why did we stop being monkeys? Were cavemen humans or something else? And are we still evolving today? Stream away to hear Brandon explain it all (despite being quite a bit higher than usual). Plus, they manage to squeeze both Jack Nicholson and Bill Nye impressions in there, so that’s something.

For more episodes of scHIGHence, visit our website at www.buzzsprout.com/1510018. Note that we do not guarantee that any of the facts we share on this podcast are 100% true… after all, we are high. For more on this topic from a source that you can trust, check out PBS’s Eons playlist about human evolution: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKjJE86mQRtsCZxHWBzDajFo-YQHw2oAO.  

Theme song by Alexander Nakarada, who you can find on twitter (twitter.com/thenakarada) and Patreon (www.patreon.com/anakarada).

In this episode, we talk about everyone’s favorite red liquid: blood! (Sorry, fruit punch fans...). We cover all the basics, like how do bones make our blood? How did blood evolve? And how long can Matt talk about the human body before he pukes? And of course, Matt and Brandon do all of this while having a considerable amount of THC floating around in their own blood.

For more episodes of scHIGHence, visit our website at www.buzzsprout.com/1510018. Note that we do not guarantee that any of the facts we share on this podcast are 100% true… after all, we are high. For more on this topic from a source that you can trust, check out these videos:

• PBS’s Eons on the evolution of blood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdjN4ddnl2E
• Journey to the Microcosmos on blood cells: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsTX57HfL0w
• Crash Course videos on blood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQWlcSp9Sls and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-XoM2144tk

Theme song by Alexander Nakarada, who you can find on twitter (twitter.com/thenakarada) and Patreon (www.patreon.com/anakarada).

What is...physics? In this episode, we talk about what the field of physics is at its core and learn that it’s basically just fortune telling with a whole lot more math. Be sure to listen to this episode if you want to hear Matt ask whether you can pick up subatomic particles with tweezers and Brandon take several breathing breaks. Don’t worry—his lungs are fine, he’s just very, very high.

For more episodes of scHIGHence, visit our website at www.buzzsprout.com/1510018. Note that we do not guarantee that any of the facts we share on this podcast are 100% true… after all, we are high. For more on this topic from sources that you can trust, check out these videos:

• Professor Dave Explains video about Copernicus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGr1nHdzLyk 
• CrashCourse video about Newton’s Law of Gravity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gf6YpdvtE0 
• Space Time video about math in physics and how it can be “beautiful”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFKgIOX8IRE 

Theme song by Alexander Nakarada, who you can find on twitter (twitter.com/thenakarada) and Patreon (www.patreon.com/anakarada).