Size matters, in your pants and inside your head

Does size matter to women? What about height? These age-old questions have been asked by every man who has ever lived. What does science have to say?

Why do some animals become roadkill? Are they just dumb?

It’s episode 10! In this milestone episode, Lu and Tirth pay homage to some of the greatest scientists of all time, fiercely debate whether size matters to women when it comes to the attractiveness of men, and discuss whether brain size in birds correlates with the probability of getting run over by cars.

Timestamps:

• 0:00 Intro

• 2:49 Scientist quotes quiz

• 16:42 Penis size study
• 28:04 Bird brain study
• 35:51 What did you learn today, outro

Article links:

• Mautz et al., 2013. Penis size interacts with body shape and height to influence male attractiveness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1219361110

• Moller et al., 2017. Brain size in birds is related to traffic accidents. Royal Society Open Science. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.161040

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