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The science podcast that'll eat your brain. Shabam! is a new type of science show that blends fictional stories with real science. If you love science but hate those awkward scientist interviews that involve graphs and confusing metaphors, you're in luck. First off, Shabam! is an audio program - so no graphs. And second, through the magic of sound effects and music, you'll hear stories that reveal the awesomeness in the world around us - like cellphones and vaccinations. In season one, our main story is about three kids separated from their parents during a Zombie apocalypse. Over the course of 10 episodes we follow their quest to reunite with their families. But their experience leads us to…
A zombie escape hands you a truth probability meter before the next alien conspiracy reaches your family chat.
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A zombie quarantine turns source-checking and triangulation into a compact lesson in probability.
A mandatory five-hour quarantine at Vandenberg Air Force Base gives Shabam a clean, useful problem: how Nadine, Owen, and Elliot should decide what to believe when every source carries some uncertainty.
A Chicago flying-humanoid case becomes a practical test of anonymous witnesses, blurry photos, and probability.
Shabam!'s second part turns alien-conspiracy curiosity into a grounded test of evidence. The host uses a probability meter to sort anonymous reports of a strange flying figure in Chicago, moving through source analysis, information analysis, and triangulation.
A breezy test of zombie survival through cells, blood, dehydration, and the body's need to repair itself.
Shabam! shifts its second part from a brain-changing virus to a plainer survival problem: how long could a zombie body actually keep moving? The episode begins at the cellular level, linking cells to tasting, movement, breathing, thinking, and the basic upkeep of bones, lungs,…
A zombie apocalypse gets tested through memory, recognition, and one disastrous parking-garage encounter.
"Killing Zombies" puts zombie fiction under a microscope, asking whether zombies, or even a zombie apocalypse, could make sense by tracing familiar undead behavior to damaged brain systems.
A bike escape becomes a lively lesson in roads, cars, navigation, and survival gear.
Shabam! turns the ride to the Vandenberg safe zone into a grounded look at how travel really works: roads, vehicles, supplies, timing, and the small choices that shape a journey.
Strange claims, tested cleanly.
Plainspoken sermons for faithful Christian life.
A science podcast uses a zombie apocalypse story to explain real scientific concepts like quarantine and pathogen exposure.
This episode teaches a three-step method for evaluating truth using probability, applied to real-world examples like alien conspiracy theories.
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The episode uses a fictional scenario of a host experiencing a febrile hallucination to explain how fevers affect the brain.