A Normal Meets A Nerd

🎉 Episode 20 — a big milestone! Twenty episodes of curiosity, chaos, and questions you never knew had answers.

🕺 From people dancing themselves to death in the 1500s, to why humans go bald, to the bizarre mysteries of pigeons… this episode of A Normal Meets A Nerd is full of the weird, wonderful, and hilarious.

Dylan and Darragh explore:

💃 The dancing plague of 1518 — what really happened and why
🧬 Why humans lose hair and why baldness is more common in men
🐦 Why we almost never see baby pigeons
⏰ The meaning of “watershed” and why time seems to fly when you’re having fun
🧠 A rapid-fire round of showerthoughts — from evil animals to why fingerprints exist but not toeprints

It’s science, history and curiosity mixed with plenty of laughs.
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☁️ Why do clouds form — and what actually makes them stay in the sky? If you were stranded on a desert island, what would really keep you alive? And is nuclear fusion the future of clean energy, or just science fiction?

In this episode of A Normal Meets A Nerd, Dylan and Darragh explore:
☁️ How clouds form and why weather works the way it does
🏝️ What you actually need to survive on a desert island
⚡ Whether nuclear fusion is a realistic solution to the world’s energy problems
👁️ How colour blindness happens and why it affects people differently
🛌 The science behind hypersleep — could humans ever hibernate?
🚨 Why red became the universal colour of danger

Science, survival, and the future of humanity — explained simply, argued badly.
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🐶 What do our pets actually think we are? Gods? Parents? Weird hairless animals?

In this episode of A Normal Meets A Nerd, Dylan and Darragh dive into how animals perceive humans... before jumping into everything from cracking knuckles and deadly bee stings to artificial intelligence and the science behind rainbows.

This episode explores:
🐾 How pets understand humans
🦴 What really happens when you crack your knuckles
🤖 Whether AI could ever become truly self-aware
🐝 Why bees die after stinging
🌈 What makes a rainbow... and why the colours appear in that order

It’s curious, surprising, and occasionally derails completely.

Thank you for listening!
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🌶️ Why does coriander taste like soap to some people? How did TVs get so ridiculously cheap? And what’s really behind phrases like “cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey”?

In this episode of A Normal Meets A Nerd, Dylan and Darragh dive into:

🧊 The bizarre origin of the brass monkey saying
🦴 Why humans are (maybe) the only animals with a chin
🌀 What trypophobia actually is — and why so many people feel uneasy
😱 A deep dive into phobias and how they work in the brain
📺 The surprising economics behind modern television prices
🌿 Why coriander tastes soapy to some people (and delicious to others)

It’s quirky science, unexpected history and classic ANMAN chaos — normal meets nerd as always.

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This bite-sized Halloween special dives into where the holiday really came from and what science says about surviving the apocalypse 🧠💀

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