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Ologies with Alie Ward

Volcanoes. Trees. Drunk butterflies. Mars missions. Slug sex. Death. Beauty standards. Anxiety buste

Episodes

Total: 463

ONE HUNDRED EPISODES, kiddos. From slimy hagfish coils on the ocean floor to the outer reaches of sp

Saurologist and professional lizard scientist Earyn McGee visits Alie to go on a little lizard hunt,

Is it weird to have different handwritings? How do you forge ancient documents? What pen should you

Will changing your sunscreen save coral reefs? What even IS a coral? Where do they grow and what do

It lives under your sink and may have saved your life but… WHAT THE FUNK IS BLEACH? Hot off of a be

Have you ever read every word of The U.S. Constitution? You don't have to, because ol' Dadward here

If you've never read The Constitution, you're like most of us. What does it even say?! Most American

Log cabins, woodsy getaways, A-frame cuties, cottages, tiny homes, lake houses: WE GET INTO IT. Worl

Lyme Disease! Powassan virus! That Lonestar tick meat allergy! Paralysis ticks! Acarology taught us

What IS an island? How do birds and plants and mammals GET there? Why do we like going to islands? D

Ticks: They’re tiny. They’re thirsty. They’re drooling vectors of various illnesses and they want no

What happens to the brain under extreme stress? Why do past traumas haunt us? What kind of therapies

Why do we bone? Why should we have kids? When should we have kids? Crickets might answer all these q

Announcement: BILL NYE HAS A PODCAST. And Alie's his first guest. Bill Nye’s on a mission to change

Mushrooms! Psilocybin! Humungous fungus! Black mold! Foraging! The incredibly charming and warm Dr.

Toaaaaads! Friend or foe? Dive into a toad hollow with bufologist and charming human Priya Nanjappa,

THAT'S RIGHT IT'S A MINISOHDA FROM MINNESOHDA. On the last stop of a six-state Midwest tour intervie

"Addiction doesn't have to be a bummer!," quoth addictionologist Erin Parisi, who has some uplifting

Hagfish: these floppy hot dogs of the deep sea deserve our undying respect. Tim Winegard is a profes

Scorpions: the victims of undue shade. If you've ever wanted to impress a date with weird facts THIS