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Let's Learn Everything!

Let's Learn Everything!

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Science communicators Ella Hubber, Tom Lum, and Caroline Roper learn about anything and everything interesting! Each episode they teach each other about a science topic, and learn about a miscellaneous topic. Whether it's bugs on drugs, temporal illusions, or fanfiction, there's so much out there, so let's learn everything! Join our Discord, email us, and follow us everywhere at www.LetsLearnEverything.comTom Lum, Caroline Roper, and Ella Hubber Science
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  • 107: Sci Guys, Acupuncture, and THAT Dolphin Story

    107: Sci Guys, Acupuncture, and THAT Dolphin Story
    Jun 18 2026

    Corry and Luke from the Sci Guys podcast join us, at last completing elaborate 4 year scheme to have them on! We learn about whether acupuncture is bullshit, and learn a bit more about That famous dolphin story. We also talk shop about mistakes, debunking, and curiosity!

    Timestamps:
    (00:00:00) Intro
    (00:10:51) Acupuncture
    (00:32:27) THAT Dolphin Story
    (00:33:19) Speech Disfluency
    (00:54:20) Mistakes & Debunking
    (01:21:10) Outro

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    We also learn about:

    I’m biggly judging, the only thing I love more than science is a weird bit, Caroline’s 4 year plan to get in a zoom call with these bozos, kind of feels like you came to the top of the mountain and came down to meet us, Brian Cox does Not follow Tom, I know something that will fix Ella’s connection, the corry-luke scale, the peripheral nervous system, free opiod receptors, endogynous, different kind of needles for that opiod, fake accupuncture, treating sever hiccups, min-maxing heroin, it’s tricky to study pain, maybe therapy works more than accupuncture, by the way I don’t need you to share everything, dolphins weren’t so great at finding land mines, I’ll just leave some dead air, an open bar for editting, the sensory deprivation tank, you’re paying for this open bar Tom, I won’t tell you the name of the paper but I will tell you about lisa simpson, was really hoping the apartment would have a dolphinarium, now do your duolingo, this was all to communicate with aliens, Tom tries to have a teachable moment, well someone was certainly “arriving”, raising a chimp as a human, Bunny’s backlash, weird studies, language is complicated and we don’t even think about it so we underestimate it, did we not all read coco transcripts in college - oh i guess not, Corry’s corona mistake, double checking even when we know someone’s wrong, can you believe there are podcasts where people try to learn everything? a meta message not about being right but about science, QI’s mistake rate, the science debunking complex can get toxic, when we debunk it’s not with antagonism but curiosity, the mould effect saga, I think what you were trying to say correy is that it’s important to foster curiosity.

    Sources:
    Harvard Medical School, Science of Acupuncture
    Review: Is Acupuncture Placebo?
    Review: Acupuncture for Fibromyalgia Treatment
    Guardian: NASA's Dolphin Project
    Atlantic: Margaret Lovatt's Dolphin Experiment

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    1 hr and 25 mins
  • The Best of Everything 2026

    The Best of Everything 2026
    Jun 4 2026

    It's the Best of Everything! The episode where we look at the topics that YOU thought were our best from the past year, and chat some behind the scenes about them! It's a great place to start and a great time to brush up on things you may have forgotten.

    Images we Talk About:
    Etching from the Great Moon Hoax
    Bumble Bee Ocelli

    Timestamps:
    (00:00:00) Intro
    (00:03:51) The Vitamin Saga
    (00:20:55) Why is the Sky Blue?
    (00:33:19) Speech Disfluency
    (00:53:11) The Great Moon Hoax of 1835
    (01:09:07) Superheavy Elements II
    (01:27:33) Eyevolution II
    (01:45:17) Outro

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    We also learn about:

    You wouldn’t marry a husband, oh here comes the vitamin guy, you think we’ll still have history, you missed a spot, literally having to ask for extra time, we don’t learn like computers - relearning is normal, the I’ve just turned 30 pilgramage to Japan, I’ve ruined the algorithm, oh YAY, excited for marriages and reality fracture, 30 seconds of laughter.

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    2 hrs
  • 106: The Polygraph & Dentistry History

    106: The Polygraph & Dentistry History
    May 21 2026
    You may know the polygraph is junk science, but what is the real science of lying and what wild turns did the polygraph take to get to today? And how old is dentistry? If ancient cave men didn't brush why do I have to? Well it turns out for good reason, and some fascinating dental science. ALSO SEE US LIVE IN LONDON!!! LETSLEARNEVERYTHING.COM/LIVE Images we Talk About: Mackenzie's First PolygraphAncient Teeth ImageDentistry Tool 1Dentistry Tool 2Dentistry Tool 3Dentistry Tool 4 Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:06:38) The Polygraph (01:00:33) Dentistry History (01:49:19) Outro Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! Go to https://surfshark.com/learneverything or use code LEARNEVERYTHING at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN! We also learn about: 2 truths and a lie, the jeremy kyle show, the first lie from the devil to eve (or when children first lie), the official stance of the podcast is lying is good and cool, deontic reasoning and theory of mind, flexible and explicit TOM, Ella aces the Sally-Anne test, discovering new advanced levels of lying, lying is normal for kids it’s not evil, lying is complex… but what if it wasn’t and we could just know, James Mackenzie’s original polygraph, the polygraph actually worked (just not for lying but for cardiology), sphygmomanometers, proto-feminist William Marston, back then just thinking women had a theory of mind made you a proto feminist, Tom falls down the rabbit hole of Marston’s feminism, what’s the difference between a lie you believe and the truth, Marston is the first to bring the polygraph to court in Frye vs the United States, the polygraphs turns into a one band band machine, Marston invented wonder woman and the lasso of truth, table the feminism of wonder woman another time, if corporations are people they should all go to therapy, polygraphs are still a 2 billion dollar industry, police firefighters and paramedics still take polygraphs, Caroline pre-empts the but, a polygraph is not a machine you need the interpreter, lying is useful, it’s fun to lie so who’s your favorite co-host, wow we can bond over private healthcare, dentistry asmr, tooth decay is from bacteria acid, stone age morocco acorn sweets, you can blame agriculture for cavities, fossilized plaque can give us an oral history, determining women did a job from paint in teeth, fuck I drank the paint water at least no one will know, did you say we were kissing the rats or was that my inner monologue, would you like to read the tooth worm poem? how could this possibly get to a tooth worm, most of recorded human history we believed in tooth worms, the earliest example of dentistry was a week ago, sorry it changed a week ago, an ancient beeswax filling, a 59,000 year old tooth hole, what’s a worse hyphenate than barber-surgeon, blacksmith barbers, traveling tooth pullers, so many jobs I’m glad don’t exist, a medieval dentist clown is literally someone’s worst nightmare, victorian job questionnaire, What The Eff is That, dental tools that look like weapons made in a dream, I didn’t realize until we got into this how much I hate teeth! the truth of my soul is private in Germany, Sources:The Emergence of Lying in Very Young ChildrenMarjorie Rhodes NPRSocial and Cognitive Correlates of Children's Lying BehaviorReview of Theory of Mind in ChilrenJames Mackenzie's "The Study of the Pulse"Mark Harris' Great Wired Piece on PolygraphsMatthew Brown's Deep Dive into Marston's FeminismJAAPL Frye v. United StatesCornell Law Frye StandardHarvard center for Law Brain and Behavior on the PolygraphScientific American on Lying ---National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial ResearchNational Library of Medicine: Microbiology of Dental Decay and Periodontal Disease2014 Paper: Earliest evidence for caries and exploitation of starchy plant foods in Pleistocene hunter-gatherers from MoroccoSciAm: Oral Mystery: Are Agriculture and Rats Responsible for Tooth Decay?NHGRI: Digging into the past to uncover the cause of our cavitiesWiki: Tooth WormSmithsonian: 6,500-Year Old Beeswax May Be Oldest Known Dental FillingNewScientist: Oldest dental filling is found in a Stone Age toothThe Guardian: Neanderthals Used Stone Drills to Treat Cavities 59,000 Years Ago, Tooth SuggestsWiki: Barber SurgeonBath Medical Museum: Teeth Pullers and Denture Makers2007 Paper: The Tooth Puller2025 Paper: Pierre FauchardScience Museum: Dental Pelican Science Museum: Dental Pelican for Tooth PullingScience Museum: Dental KeyBBC: When Blacksmiths Were DentistsScience Museum: Dental drillScience Museum: SyringeSpear: A Brief History of Dental AnesthesiaBlog: The Gruesome History of Dental ImplantsBBC: The Dentures Made From the Teeth of Dead Soldiers at WaterlooScience Museum: Shade Guide Blog: What Are Dentures Made Of?Dentists Act 1878 Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinlearn
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    1 hr and 58 mins
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