Today we have Shannon Odell on the podcast. Odell is a Brooklyn based writer, comedian, and scientist. She co-hosts and produces Drunk Science, an experimental comedy show deemed “a stroke of genius” by Gothamist and a finalist in TruTV’s comedy break out initiative. She also co-created, writes, and stars in the Inverse original series “Your Brain on Blank”, where she explains the science behind how everything-from alcohol to caffeine to puppies- affects the brain. She can also be seen at Weill Cornell Medicine, where she is a Neuroscience PhD candidate studying the epigenetic underpinnings of hippocampal function. You can visit Shannon’s YouTube channel here.

• How Shannon got into science comedy
• How science can be funny
• Similarities between the personalities of comedians and scientists
• Political correctness in comedy and science
• How science communication is often so humorless
• Your brain on… the flu.
• Your brain on… breakups.
• Your brain on… puppies.
• Your brain on… caffeine.
• Your brain on… social media.
• Epigenetics and the effects of early life adversity on the brain
• How science can inform treatment options
• Barriers for women entering science

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