Episodes

1. Of why people are less generous on Xmas than the rest of the year! (Pt2/2) Released 30 Jan 2020 Hello dear listener, here it comes the second part of a story about the fact that, at Xmas time, people, especially those usually inclined to generosity, donate less often and l...
2. Of why people are less generous on Xmas than the rest of the year! (Pt1/2) Released 19 Dec 2019 Ho-ho-hoooo... Hello, dear listener! After Halloween, the Black Friday aaand the Cyber Monday here it's coming a new credit card holiday: Christmas! Sooo, to fit the Xmas spiri...
3. Weird patent series (N°1): "The Bird Diaper"! Released 15 Nov 2019 Oh hallo dear listener, this is the first episode of the "Weird patent series", a space, as the name suggests, dedicated to the most absurd things you humans have patented, inve...
4. The yum-yum bugs Released 6 Nov 2019 Hello dear listener, here we go with a delicious story about environment, food and... bugs. Basically: "wanna help saving the world? Eat bugs!". Ahhh, who doesn't dream a juicy ...
5. The explosive story of dynamite & the Nobel Prize! Released 20 Oct 2019 Hallo dear listener, today October 21st, in 1833, Alfred Nobel is born. He's famous 'cause, in the XIX the century, he was the guy everybody wanted at their parties since he was...
6. The Rogue Planet: a science "crime" story Released 13 Oct 2019 A vast universe, a wandering entity with a secret identity, three cosmic cops. And a dumb podcast to tell their story... Find the script here&enjoy! https://www.sciencemug....
7. Pollution on high Released 27 Sep 2019 Hello dear listener, in this episode I'll tell you the scary story of what three researchers find there is inside the water that falls down from the sky... Clue one: it is not ...
8. BACTERIA vs HUMAN CELLS (PT3 of 3) Released 3 Sep 2019 Ooh hello dear listener, in this episode I'll tell you the 3d and final part of the story about three scientists who put at sleep the legend according to which there are 10 bugs...
9. Happy b-day Aspirin! Released 9 Aug 2019 Ooooh, hello dear listener, this is the story of Aspirin's creation! It's a mix of chemistry, mystery, history, suspense, a guilty butler with a beaker in the laboratory, Nazism...
10. BACTERIA vs HUMAN CELLS (PT2 of 3) Released 27 Jul 2019 Ooh hello dear listener, in this episode I'll tell you the 2nd part (total 3) of the story about the debunking of the myth that there are 10 bugs in/on humans for each human cel...
11. Thank you brave soul! Released 6 Jun 2019 The gang celebrated the reason of this short audio visiting the homepage of every pub's website of Ireland and ending up arrested for disorderly conduct by Chief Wiggum after at...
12. BACTERIA vs HUMAN CELLS (PT1 of 3) Released 1 Jun 2019 Ooh hello dear listener, in this episode I'll tell you the first part (total 3) of the story about the death of the urban legend/scientific myth according to which in/on human b...
13. Roses chocolates & Valentine's Day Released 13 Feb 2019 Ohhh happy most fake festivity of 'em all aka Valentine's Day, dear listener! To celebrate this nonsense here for you a new episode 'bout a paper that tells something reeeally ...
14. The roads the researchers & the map (Pt 4/4) Released 24 Jun 2018 Ooooh eventually the scientists of the roads who did the map of the parts of the world that have no roads (and, in the process, by-discovered how to live in peace with the misch...
15. The roads the researchers & the map (Pt 3/4) Released 25 May 2018 Oooooh, well, the road scientists are still at work to find out who's eating all the asphalt of the world causing a dramatic global shortage of bends and center lines... Naa, bu...
16. The roads the researchers & the map (Pt 2/4) Released 22 Mar 2018 Haaaaallooo dear English thinking-reading-speaking-hearing listener, in this new episode I'll keep on telling you the story of those scientists that create a map of the roadless...
17. The roads the researchers & the map (Pt 1/4) Released 25 Feb 2018 Haaaaallooo dear English thinking-reading-speaking-hearing listener, in this new episode I'll tell you the story of how ten scientists create a map of the roadless areas still e...
18. I'm coming back, folks, I'm coming baaack! Released 24 Feb 2018 Ten seconds to tell you, dear English thinking, speaking, reading, hearing worshipper of podcasts, that I'm coming back! Soon! With brand-new episodes (aaand unfortunately the...
19. Valentine's Day & the birth timing Released 13 Feb 2016 Episode number 8 of @sciencemug's podcast tells you that on Valentine's Day there's an increase in births: women are influenced by the cultural value of this day as they associa...
20. Kepler, Santa Bernard and the Xmas tale (part2) Released 28 Dec 2015 Oh-oh-oh! Dear listener, here for you the second and final part of the Xmas tale about a solitary space-probe named Kepler, and its stubborn, heroic quest for the ultimate decor...
21. Kepler, Santa Bernard and the Xmas tale (part1) Released 27 Dec 2015 Oh-oh-oh! Dear listener, here for you the Xmas tale about a solitary space-probe named Kepler, and its stubborn, heroic quest for the ultimate decoration to put on the Cosmic Xm...
22. PiPs goes on video! Released 12 Dec 2015 PiPs introduces many characters of @sciencemug and... ask for your money (the greedy bastard...)
23. Beijing's ring and the scientists Released 30 Oct 2015 Episode number 5 of @sciencemug podcast tells you that Beijing's urban extent quadrupled in the first decade of 2000, and that this created a "ring of impact" around China's cap...
24. Episode 5: the (audio) promo! Released 29 Sep 2015 An (audio) promo - for @sciencemug's next podcast episode - that is as sensible as a pizza topped with pineapples and würstels (yeah yeah, I know it exists and yet, J'ACCUSE!)
25. The pig’s “scent” and the barking dogs Released 14 Aug 2015 The episode n°4 of @sciencemug's podcast tells you, in Engh?ish, that a pig’s pheromone, the androstenone, can calm excessively anxious super barking and jumping dogs when spray...
26. size does matter (when it comes to brain and you are a female little fish) Released 5 Aug 2015 The third episode of @sciencemug's podcast tells you, in Engh?ish, that size does matters, as usual. At least when it comes to brains and the ability of surviving predators' att...
27. le dimensioni (del cervello) contano, se sei una pescolina tropicale Released 5 Aug 2015 Il terzo episodio del podcast di @sciencemug ti racconta che avere un cervello grande aumenta la capacità di sopravvivere ai predatori nelle femmine, ma non nei maschi (sic!), d...
28. The Earth, the Dark Matter and the galactic trip toward mass extinction Released 1 Jul 2015 The second episode of the podcast by @sciencemug tells you that a direct link can exist among catastrophic geologic events, comet impacts, mass extinctions and the Earth crossin...
29. La Terra, la materia oscura e il viaggio galattico verso l’estinzione di massa Released 1 Jul 2015 Il secondo episodio del podcast di @sciencemug ti racconta che è possibile che esista una relazione diretta tra le estinzioni di massa, la caduta di comete e gli sconvolgimenti ...
30. the strange case of ants and toilets Released 1 Jul 2015 Ooooooh well well, dear PodcastMachinin' happily ever after (whatever this means), please, dive yourself for a few minutes into this first odoriferous episode of @sciencemug pod...
31. anche le formiche nel loro piccolo hanno le toilette Released 1 Jul 2015 Ooooh, alura alura, caro/a PodcastMachinante di uno qualsiasi dei giorni della settimana, indulgi per qualche minuto in questo primo odoroso episodio del podcast di @sciencemug ...