Sealed with a Bacterial Kiss

In this classic Star Trek Week episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss teleportation in the Star Trek universe and the questions it raises about human identity and consciousness. (originally published 9/11/2025)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informatio ...  Show more

In this special Star Trek Week episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe are off to see the Borg Queen in 1996's "Star Trek: First Contact,” directed by Jonathan Frakes and also starring Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, LaVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Alf ...  Show more

A good old smooch. It’s something that we do on a daily basis in one form or another (if we’re lucky), and yet have you ever stopped and wondered why we do it? Wonder no more. On today’s Betwixt the Sheets we’re joined by Emmy award-winning scientist and author of The Science of ...  Show more

Kissing—the romantic, sexual, steamy kind—is so ingrained in us that it just seems like a fact of life. Like breathing or eating, we just do it. But what if it’s not like that at all? In this episode, we’re going to look at passionate kissing, well, dispassionately, not as someth ...  Show more

How do we... kiss? like how do ANY of us kiss? tonight at 11. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

Why do we kiss? What makes a good kiss or a bad kiss? How many microbes do we exchange? Is it good for us? One of the world’s most accomplished researchers on kissing, social behavior and relationships, Dr . Robin Dunar of Oxford University reluctantly agrees to be interviewed ...