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Episodes feature recordings of talks given at Science on Tap events held in Portland, OR, and Vancouver, WA.

May 20, 2019

Star Trek introduced us to the amazing technologies of a fictional future such as warp drive, replicators, and photon torpedoes, but it turns out that some of those technologies aren't so fictional anymore. In this episode hear theoretical physicist and author Ethan Siegel, PhD, talk about some of the real inventions...


May 6, 2019

Are biological sex and gender the same thing? Do anatomy and genetics completely determine sex and/or gender?

In this talk from June 2018, Dr. Lisa Sardinia, Associate Professor of Biology at Pacific University, talks about some of the so-called "bathroom bills" proposed in the US to restrict access to public restrooms...