We are hot science! The podcast that does the research so that you don’t have to, tackling all topics to make sure that science is accessible and understandable by all! Brought to you by Laura x 2 and a glass of Prosecco or two, we hope to break down hard topics, reduce stigma and most of all have a little giggle ✨ hope to see you around and most of all stay hot babes xx
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PART II: INATTENTIONAL BLINDNESS: Is that an Invisible Gorilla, or are you just happy to see me?
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Part 2 of our episode EXPOSING the invisible gorilla theory, and now that we have broken it, no more research will be able to be conducted because of "demand characteristics" or something. Because we are just such a big huge podcast that every single person in the world will become academically compromised after listening to our episode. Thoughts a…
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PART I INATTENTIONAL BLINDNESS: Is that an Invisible Gorilla, or are you just happy to see me?
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Did you know that there are invisible gorillas all around us? They are the ones that steal our socks and hearts and make us stay in love with our exes longer than the norm. They are also the ones that post the misinformation online the first time and don’t cite their sources. Darn you invisible gorillas Inattentional blindness is the reason that th…
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ALLERGIES PART II: Nut Free Zone? I sure hope it does
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Part 2 of my rant/ hyper fixation on my favourite topic of science, and that is Allergies! Our seemingly failing immune response, could it really be a way to protect us against worms, toxins, fungi? Or is it an emerging response to the world of hyper hygiene and eating less dirt? Unforch I yapped too long and there is a part 1 that you may have mis…
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ALLERGIES PART I: Nut free zone? I sure hope it does
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Are you excited cause I'm excited? Why am I so excited I hear you ask? Because we get to talk about one of my favourite science topics and that is ALLERGIES! Our seemingly failing immune response, could it really be a way to protect us against worms, toxins, fungi? Or is it an emerging response to the world of hyper hygiene and eating less dirt? We…
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MYOPIA vs INTELLIGENCE PART II: The only important chicken vs egg story
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Part 2 of our discussion of myopia and intelligence! The origins of life and love and sight and who we are, all questions we have had about the universe. Well today we answer the one question we all had once and didn’t dwell on (but we did), and that is the contentious link between myopia (short sightedness) and intelligence. The sound recording is…
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MYOPIA vs INTELLIGENCE PART I: The only important chicken vs egg story
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The origins of life and love and sight and who we are, all questions we have had about the universe. Well today we answer the one question we all had once and didn’t dwell on (but we did), and that is the contentious link between myopia (short sightedness) and intelligence. The sound recording is unfortunately less than optimal because the individu…
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TATTOOS PART II: Ink your skin with Hot Science to win BIG
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Welcome to the second part of the tattoo ep! If you are new here please kindly listen to the first one to get an 'ink'ling of what's in that dye, and how tattoos even stay in our skin! Too tattoo or not too tattoo that is indeed the question that we intend to answer in this weeks episode of Hot Science! What is a tattoo, what is in the dye, how doe…
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TATTOOS PART I: Ink your skin with Hot Science to win BIG
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Too tattoo or not too tattoo that is indeed the question that we intend to answer in this weeks episode of Hot Science! What is a tattoo, what is in the dye, how does it stay in our skin and are there any potential repercussions that could mean we are up stream with only the image of a paddle to get us out. We talk a whole lot and were way too jovi…
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Bonus Ep: Before you throw out the box with the tampons....
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Helllooo everyone, and you're welcome xxx Enjoy my deep dive on the recent study out about Tampons and presence of metals! Hopefully it helps give some much needed context to the study that has been missing in the headlines! Study reference: Shearston, J.A. et al. (2024) ‘Tampons as a source of exposure to metal(loid)s’, Environment International, …
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BOREDOM PART II: Mum said that if you're bored, you have to listen to our episode
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PART 2 on our discussion of boredom! Boredom boredom boredom, listening to Tyler the Creator while watching Netflix, while doing a puzzle, while painting your toenails- we've all been there. And quite frankly some of you are probably right there now, and to let you in on a little secret, I painted my toes too while editing this ep xx. Is boredom so…
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BOREDOM PART I: Mum said that if you're bored, you have to listen to our episode
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PART 1 on our discussion of boredom! Boredom boredom boredom, listening to Tyler the Creator while watching Netflix, while doing a puzzle, while painting your toenails- we've all been there. And quite frankly some of you are probably right there now, and to let you in on a little secret, I painted my toes too while editing this ep xx. Is boredom so…
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ISOTRETINOIN PART II: Let me Accutane you
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TRIGGER WARNING: we discuss depression and suicide in this episode (from a statistically and analytical perspective) If this raises issues with you please reach out to Lifeline 13 11 14. Our second instalment of the isotretinoin (accutane) episode! Here we discuss the potential ramifications of going on accutane and dive into the strength of the me…
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ISOTRETINOIN PART I: Let me Accutane you
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Everything (or nearly everything) you wanted to know about Accutane! The skin care drug that keeps the acne away, by daily stealing of your sebaceous gland cells and their oil. Have you been on Accutane or want to? Want to feel seen in your joint pain, sunburn, chapped lips? Join the very exclusive club only joined by many teenagers and adults alik…
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RETINOL PART II: The Art of knowing what you are putting on your skin
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For the second part of our Retinol episode, we bring you what does retinol actually do to our skin and how can we discern good and troublesome information about skincare. We bring you the first segment of "check your cognitive bias babe" which helps break down the first few google search results when conducting your own research so you can be both …
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RETINOL PART 1: The art of knowing what you are putting on your skin
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For the third episode of "What you don’t know might kill you" we bring you the fixation of any tiktok skin care girly: RETINOL. The skin care product taking the world by a storm for its potent anti aging effects; we uncover in this preliminary episode (because we yapped too hard and had to split it in half) what is retinol, where does it come from,…
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From Taking Dye a Little Too Literally: A History of Food Colourants
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A little bonus instalment of 'What you Don't Know Might Kill You' using all the unused research uncovered for the last episode. Since no knowledge acquired is wasted, I am making it available to clutter your brain space as well! Loz is currently soaking up the very last of summer (?) in Fiji, so this is a solo episode to ensure our hot scientists a…
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ADHD: Did i just Drink the Red Cool-Aid
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For the second instalment of "what you don't know might kill you", we talk all things food colourings and its mildly suspicious link to ADHD? Is there a link, or are we just drinking someone else's (brown) cool-aid; the anti-artificial agenda trying to ruin our fun and make our children normal brained :( Join us as we unpack the ever forgotten nuan…
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MSG: Is there anything wrong with a meal, a succulent chinese meal?
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The first episode of our series: What you don't know might harm you, we're talking all things that salty umami goodness MSG! Monosodium glutamate; a well contested and well stigmatised compound is now well and truely researched, and we hope you enjoy the science! References can be found at the link below: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mz_DWw3…
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