👽 WELCOME TO EPISODE 2 OF 'WHAT IF'! Our brand new season where we're tacking the craziest WHAT if questions in STEM. In todays episode, we are discussing WHAT would happen if we found life on another planet?! What might we find, what would it mean and what would society do next?! On the menu... extremophiles, exoplanets, technosignatures and MORE!

🪐 DID YOU KNOW we have a brand new website?! you can check it out www.socultured.com where you can find so cultured MERCHANDISE! We’re super excited to see you repping the so cultured podcast merch around your lab/office so please do tag us on Instagram! 👚

📝Thank you to Scite for sponsoring this season of the So Cultured Podcast. If you guys would like to check out scite, head to scite.ai and use the code SCP for 50% off your first month or year!

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0:00 intro

5:32 What if we found life on another planet?

47.10 I got kicked out for exposing my PI!!

𝗚𝗼𝘁 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲?

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🤯 Ahhhh! Welcome to the eighth season of the So Cultured Podcast. You guys know by now that every season we mix up our theme to keep it fun and fresh. This season we are asking… What if the biggest “what ifs” actually happened?

We’re gonna be diving into the science behind humanity’s most existential questions. What if I fell into a black hole, what if AI takes over, What if we stop ageing, and more!

We basically already ask these questions every episode, so we decided to dedicate a whole series to answering them!

We are super excited for this series, not only because it’s a brand new theme but we also have a brand new website socultured.com !

And on there you can find… spoiler alert!!! OUR MERCH! We’re super excited to see you repping the so cultured podcast merch around your lab/office so please do tag us on Instagram! 👚

Not only that, we have a fresh LaboraTEA segment where we’ll be peer reviewing your hot takes, so head over to our website to submit your hot takes on the LaboraTEA page 🫖

Thank you to Scite for sponsoring this season of the So Cultured Podcast. If you guys would like to check out scite, head to scite.ai and use the code SCP for 50% off your first month or year!

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0:00 intro

5:00 What if I fell into a black hole?

39:00 I don’t write code anymore

𝗚𝗼𝘁 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲?

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🧫It’s the final episode of SEASON 7 TWISTED! We’re ending on a really poignant topic this week, Henrietta Lacks. You may or may not have heard about her before, but she’s left a legacy that has shaped scientific development in ways you might not be able to even imagine…

Want to learn more? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6493208-the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks

🫖 Of course, the last episode of laboraTEA will feature our “Ask us anything” segment. We’re talking rewriting a PhD thesis, spilling the tea on our own supervisors, and rocking some very interesting outfits at work…

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0:00 intro

7:30 the immortal woman

48:53 pretending I’m not a scientist…

𝗚𝗼𝘁 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲?

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😪 in todays episode, we explore the horrors of unit 73, the scientific justifications that were used and the ethical failures that allowed it to happen.

🫖 FOR THIS WEEKS LABORATEAAAA. We’re sharing a listener story about a lab with some serious issues, everyone is giving pick me energy but for different reasons...

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

4:53 Unit 731

46:14 The PICK me lab...

𝗚𝗼𝘁 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲? 💌

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🥶Gosh we’re almost at an end to season 7, TWISTED. That means the craziest topic there is… bringing people back from the dead!

How you ask? Cryogenics! We talk everything suspended animation, frozen cells and brains, and real people who have opted to be frozen in time…

🫖 Of course, we’re back with a listener story for our laboraTEA. Our listener has left the country to escape their toxic PI, who openly admitted to enjoying making people cry… now they have a tough decision to make!!!

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0:00 intro

4:40 cryogenics

42:18 boss bragged about making me cry!

𝗚𝗼𝘁 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲?

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🪳 Welcome to the first episode of 2026!!! We enjoyed a lovely break but we're so excited to be back and in this first episode of the year, we are continuing our season 'TWISTED' where we talk all about the craziest stories in science throughout history. This week we are discussing the craze that went on in the 1820s where people were robbing bodies from graves and even committing murder to sell bodies to anatomy labs! Curious about how, why and what happened? Tune into this episode!

🫖 and we have a listener story who tells us all about her PI telling on her to the university DEAN, shouting at her in lab meetings and NOT doing her job properly! Liv and Taz didn't hold back on saying what they thought about this story...

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0:00 intro

4:45 the murders...

34:01 im going to be blacklisted from academia??

𝗚𝗼𝘁 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲?💌 Reach out to us at ⁠soculturedpodcast@gmail.com⁠ #sciencepodcast #soculturedpodcast #stempodcast #twistedscience Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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🪳 Welcome to Season 7, TWISTED.

This season, we’re looking closely at the dark side of science. This week, we’re delving into a time where it was NORMAL to feed lice with your own blood, all in the name of science of course…

Typhus was ravaging populations in colder climates and poor living conditions. The bacteria spreads through body lice that live in the clothes of unsuspecting victims. This is the story of how a vaccine was developed… though it’s not as conventional as you might think…

THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY JENNI! check them out here https://jenni.ai/?utm_source=soculturedpodcast and dont't forget to use the code 'SCP20' for 20% off!

🫖 Of course, we’re back with a listener story for our laboraTEA. Should our listener drop everything to get away from a toxic PI and join a different lab instead? Tune in to find out!!!

🗒️ SHARE YOUR LABORATEA TO BE FEATURED ON THE SHOW : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSftEuu6Xu6VWxurDzr6sKStnYCf4v5UrF47K7SH_rxUzlbFYw/viewform or email us at soculturedpodcast@gmail.com

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0:00 intro

3:30 the louse feeders

34:10 escaping my toxic PI

𝗚𝗼𝘁 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲?

💌 Reach out to us at ⁠soculturedpodcast@gmail.com⁠

#sciencepodcast #soculturedpodcast #stempodcast #twistedscience

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In this week’s episode, we’re confronting the medical experiments carried out at Auschwitz. These experiments are now recognised as some of the most extreme violations of medical ethics in history. Their legacy still shapes how we think about research ethics, consent, and trust in medical institutions today. As we explore this history, we’ll approach it with as much care and respect as possible, focusing on what was done, who it was done to, and how it reshaped the rules that govern science.

If you’d like some more information on the details discussed, we’ve left some links below:

https://www.bmj.com/content/313/7070/1448.full

https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/

https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4515&context=faculty_scholarship

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/25973/summary

THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY JENNI! check them out here https://jenni.ai/?utm_source=soculturedpodcast and don't forget to use the code 'SCP20' for 20% off!

🫖 Of course, we’re back with a listener story for our laboraTEAAAAA. We're back with another 'ask us ANYTHING' where we discuss lab crushes, physics teachers electrocuting themselves + messing up experiments!

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0:00 intro

4:40 twin experiments at auschwitz

40:15 my physics teacher electrocuted himself..

𝗚𝗼𝘁 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲?💌

Reach out to us at ⁠soculturedpodcast@gmail.com⁠

#sciencepodcast #soculturedpodcast #stempodcast #twistedscience

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