ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
What is love? Who invented dinosaurs? How did life begin? What's the best lighting system for a football game played by snakes? Science asks big questions but only The Pop Test answers them in a comedy quiz format. Andy and Al ask some frankly impossible questions. It's up to a panel of scientists and comedians to give their funniest or most enlightening answer for Team Science.
Update frequency:
every 20 days
Average audio length:
24 minutes
English
Australia
22 episodes
since Jan. 24, 2021
episodic
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The best things about plastic, it’s durability and usefulness, are also the worst things, which makes plastic the perfect material for manufacturing double edged swords.
Comedians Claire Hooper, Kirsty Webeck and science journalist Jacinta Bowler help us smother the ocean of ignorance with the pla…
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Where on earth does time travel the slowest?
Find out the answers in the 25 so-called ‘minutes’ of this mind-bending episode of the best science comedy podcast of all time
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It's time to laboriously stir our mix of pitchblende to find the uranium of truth.
Featuring comedians Vidya Rajan, Alanta Colley and writer Laura Elvery
Who invented dinosaurs? What would a T Rex have tasted like? Who sells sea shells by the sea shore?
It's time to dig through some rocks, carefully reveal the fossils and then extract the DNA inside to create an exciting but lethal theme park.
Featuring comedians Cal Wilson, Matt Stewart and scien…
The best things about plastic, it’s durability and usefulness, are also the worst things. Which makes plastic the perfect material for manufacturing double edged swords.
Comedians Claire Hooper, Kirsty Webeck and science journalist Jacinta Bowler help us smother the ocean of ignorance with the pla…
History, like electricity, illuminates the darkness and it's expensive to get a specialist in it to come to your house on a public holiday.
Find out more about the science and the history behind you turning on a light switch.
Featuring comedians Kirsty Webeck, broadcaster Beverly Wang and Jamie E…
How did life start? Was it a warm pond of foul smelling water, deep sea underwater vents or the divine work of the Lord God?
Comedians Sami Shah, Jude Perl and cell Biologist Dr. Bianca Le attempt to answer (and be funny about) the most fundamental question of all time.
Like nachos, burritos and tacos, the elements are unique in themselves, but are all made of the building blocks of Tex-Mex cuisine,
just rearranged in different proportions. And also they can be organised neatly on a table.
Featuring comedians Greg Larsen, Kirsty Webeck and Professor Mark Quigley…
Are you too cold or too hot right now? There’s a very high chance that both are to do with heating.
The Pop Test returns to give heating the grilling it deserves and to ask why is it so hot right now?
Featuring science communicator Prof Jenny Martin and comedians Sammy J, Craig Quartermaine
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