Weird: The Podcast
Season 1
Moth Vacations and Deep Sea Peril
Lemming Lies and the Blindness-Schizophrenia Connection
Celebrity Monkeys and Frozen Frogs
Zombie Ants and Lethal Shrimps
Egg Teeth, Fairy Fingers, and Sexual Suicide
by Katie Weeman and Amy Randall
Katie tells us why moths need a summer vacation, and Amy talks about people dying in the ocean.
Katie breaks the news that we've all been lied to about the habits of lemmings and Amy discusses the connection between blindness and schizophrenia.
Amy presents a study about monkey viewing preferences and Katie discusses how animals survive extreme cold! References: Deaner RO, Khera AV, Platt ML. Monkeys pay per view: adaptive valuation of social images by rhesus macaques. Curr Biol. 2005 Mar 29;15(6):543-8. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.01.044. PMID: 15797023.
Katie tells us how to make an ant think it's dead, and Amy talks about shrimp with similarities to firearms.
Katie reviews the ways that animals escape from their eggs and other weird adaptions for being born. Amy discusses a tiny marsupial that exchanges sleep for sex before dropping dead.
Amy presents a study about coloring barn swallows with a marker, and Katie discusses everything weird about narwhals.