It's Okay to Be Smart

It's Okay to Be Smart

Join host Joe Hanson as he explores the eccentricities of the scientific world. From physics and astronomy, to biology and neuroscience, nothing is off-limits in this quirky exploration of all science has to offer.

Many hot air balloons taking off into the sky.

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Different math equations and graphs are drawn, with a butterfly as the backdrop.

Sixteen eyeballs, each with different eye color. Caption: Martin-Schultz scale.

A group of animals, a gorilla, a rhino, a lemur cat, and a scaled lizard.

Seven different butterflies, where four are placed at the corners facing the butterfly at the center and two at either side of the central butterfly.

An animal with the body of a lion, an extra goat head on its back, and a snake instead of a tail. Caption: Chimera.

A view of Moon in the dark sky. Caption: Maria, Latin for seas, and Sea of Tranquility, Mare Tranquillitatis.

A star filled night sky. Caption: P B S.

Sunlight is shining through in a forest with large number of trees.

A comparison of passive echolocation used in vehicles and active echolocation in dolphins.

Eggs of Screech owl, Turkey vulture, Audubon's Caracara, Kingfisher, Common Murree, Yellow Billed. Caption: Stoddard Et Al. Science 20 17.

Two different types of bacteria are seen all over a human outline. Caption: 37.2 trillion and 39 trillion.

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The sample particles enter the mass spectrometer, which is accelerated, and then separated according to their individual mass of the particles by a magnet.

An enlarged view of the cells lining the retina is shown from an eyeball. A colorful and a black and white picture of parrot are shown on either side of the eyeball.

A photo depicts many branches of a large tree.

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An illustration depicts the sinuses present in a human skull.

A world map illustrates the amount of bug species consumed, on a scale from 0 to 300 plus.

An illustration depicts the recycling machine, and a recycled product.

A graph plots pressure in Pascal’s versus temperature in degrees Celsius. The horizontal axis is marked at negative 5, 0, and 100. The vertical axis ranges from 1 kilo Pascal to 100 Mega Pascal’s in increments of exponents of 10. At 1 atmospheric pressure water is in solid ice at negative 5 degrees to 0 degrees, in liquid state from 0 degrees to 100 degrees Celsius, and in vapor form above 100 degrees Celsius.

An astronaut Don Pettit talks to host Joe Hanson. A rocket is seen in the background.

An aerial view of a canopy of trees.

A scale shows world population. 2 billion people will be added by 20 50 to the 7 billion at present. A number, 2 X, is shown over the food crops, wheat and corn.

A woman holds a wailing infant in her arms.

A battery gauge has 14 blocks, where 7 blocks are full. The grades of the battery gauge reads, from top to bottom, as follows. Gamma rays, X rays, U V, visible rays, and infrared. An arrow points from visible light to infrared.

A cartoon shows Benjamin Franklin sleeping on a bed. Sunlight pours into the room through an open window.

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Two people standing apart, both wearing surgical masks.

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