We are back with our wonderful regular lay, who has become less lay since we last met, so listen while you can as she may be getting the sack... BUT we love her and we love puppies and we would LOVE for you to listen and learn about dogs episodic memory and their sense of 'self'. Shit is getting deep. We would love to hear from you. You can find us…

First of all, we would like to take some time in this episode to address what is happening in the world at the moment with Black Lives Matter. We may not have a big following but we truly hope that even just one person listening to this will keep the conversation alive and we can all come together in this fight against the deep rooted racism that h…

Wonder what the new trendy health tech that we all might be? Think that it might have anything to do with urine, poo and your arsehole? Well if you are then this is the episode for you! We talk all about the wonderful world of "smart toilets". Also sorry again for the major technical difficulty we have towards the end, sometimes our wifi protests a…

Right, no more COVID-19 talk. This week we are joined by our first ever long-distance science guest! Also the first time we talk about public health and qualitative research. Also the first time Curie didn't make a bad joke. No wait no that didn't happen. Join us as we discuss whether your time really does affect your healthy eating habits? Also ma…

Is this ANOTHER podcast about COVID, or did we just put it in the title as a healthy dose of clickbait?! You will just have to listen to find out. Either way you will learn all about the mystery of hair greying as we chat with this weeks long time lay it out fan and first time guest, Chris! Stay home, wash your hands, listen to podcasts xoxo We wou…

We're back for season 3!!! Thank you for coming back after our fairly shocking performance with uploading season 2 oh and uhh finishing it too... We're easing ourselves back in with the thing that everyone is talking about... COVID19. But instead of telling you what you've probably heard from everyone we've decided to go a little deeper into WHY BA…

We're trying a new thing out! Welcome to Part 1 of our first 2 parter with our great guest this week Ben John (fitness guy, ex-rugby player, very welsh). Join us as we discuss a potential new strategy for Ben to reverse any damage caused by multiple concussions - intermittent fasting! Can intermittent fasting really help heal your brain? Is it good…

Welcome back to Lay It Out and this week we are discussing whether CBD could actually help the world stop smoking, how to ride giraffes and whether stars are actually real. It's a weird one this week. Sorry. We would love to hear from you. You can find us on instagram or twitter @layitoutpodcast. You can also e-mail us at layitoutpodcast@gmail.com…

In another BANGER of an episode Curie and Alice tell very irrelevant and potentially boring stories about nothing and then we hear all about organ transplants from this weeks wonderful science guest! We would love to hear from you. You can find us on instagram or twitter @layitoutpodcast. You can also e-mail us at layitoutpodcast@gmail.com…

This week we are joined by returning guest and language expert Sophie! Join us through a fascinating discussion as Curie explains how bilingual-ness causes your brain to develop differently. Does it really make a huge difference to the structure of your brain if you learn a second language at birth vs later in life? What does Pokemon have anything …

This week we are joined by a scientist-of-all-trades - Andrea! Join us as she takes us through her very interesting life through science (she's literally done so much). We're talking humans, cells, animals, pregnant people, mental health, caffeine... THE WHOLE LOT. We would love to hear from you. You can find us on instagram or twitter @layitoutpod…

HELLO EVERYONE! Happy September! To kick off back to school season we a bringing you a shiny new episode all about some (controversially) performance enhancing gut microbes AND our guest gives us a legal lesson (better late than never eh). We hope you enjoy. We would love to hear from you. You can find us on instagram or twitter @layitoutpodcast. Y…

NATALIE AND DAN ARE BACK FOR THEIR 3RD EPISODE! Think they're officially friends of the podcast and "regulars". As always we dive deep and off course as we discuss a very exciting paper where communication with those who are unable to might become available... Also we tackle the very important questions in life as always... boobs or bums? We would …

First of all, SO SORRY HOW LATE THIS EPISODE IS. I GOT BUSY OKAY?! Okay now that's all explained here is episode 27!! Join us with veteran guest Dan and virgin guest Alex as we dive into the world of evolution and "ethology". We compare how successful strong monkeys and sexy monkeys are with the ladies and how exactly does this relate to men with b…

This week we are joined by our first ever GROWN UP scientist so we tried really hard to behave ourselves. Join in the conversation with us and Dr Giles Yeo where we talk about his thoughts on the 5:2 and how he took his career from Japanese pufferfish to human beings! By the way this is our very first completely unedited episode featuring every sid…

Its a good one! Hear all about how are hosts reacted to large amounts of weed all in the name of science! Theres laughs, theres paranoia, theres birds in space ships. All straight from the horses mouth as we welcome this weeks science guest and learn all things psychosis. We would love to hear from you. You can find us on instagram or twitter @layi…

We get all philosophical with this weeks guest and there is a lot of head scratching as we consider what exactly defines death?! All in the context of keeping our streets free of zombie pigs of course!! Oh and stay tuned till the very end for humous-gate, the catastrophic event that nearly brought and end to our humble podcast dreams…. may be sligh…

Welcome back to Lay It Out! This week we have Alice telling us all about how smoking is... bad... for you?! Gasp, shock horror! Filled with some outstanding carrot analogies and sorry but FUNGI IS NOT REAL! Just kidding Dingle (sponser us). We would love to hear from you. You can find us on instagram or twitter @layitoutpodcast. Finally, you can e-…

This week we have are joined by another science guest - Ricky! Join us on his very emotional journey into science and then a bit about his work in ALS - it gets pretty deep!! Also in this episode not only are we educating the masses in ALS but we also have a pretty in depth chat about... WHISKEY AND CIGARS? We would love to hear from you. If you ca…

AAAAND WE'RE BACK. Welcome to season 2, bigger and better than ever. To kick things off we are talking all things man with our old friend Jamie from season 1. From some casual dick grooming to the mysterious medical marvel that is the male contraceptive pill. Fairytale or future?! Have a listen before you decide.. We would love to hear from you. If…

This is it! 20 episodes down and a full season of Lay It Out! Silent Demelza is FINALLY back and not so silent again. Join us as we discuss how 2018 treated us and how we've found this crazy podcasting experience. See you again soon... We would love to hear from you. If you can't stand our voices and would rather read about the science head on over…

Its the penultimate episode! Learn all about the potential drug combination that may be the key to living forever (or at least until you are 126!). And to round things off we dive into the controversy that is low carb diets... We would love to hear from you. If you can't stand our voices and would rather read about the science head on over to our b…

Welcome to Episode 18! This week we bring an aspiring Lay guest with a PhD in what having a fold-y brain says about your intelligence.. And our ACTUAL science guest shares her work on Zebrafish and what its like living life as a crossword Queen. Featuring a bit about lucid dreams thrown in for good measure. We would love to hear from you. If you ca…

Things get a little bit weird and disgusting this episode (actually what's new?!) when our lay guest Shaun (accountant) requests papers about poo. Alice goes very out of her field to explain to us how sheep poo and E. coli could be the end to New Zealand's favourite recreational activities. Then Curie discusses whether our poo could be making us de…

"It's a girl!!.....AND a boy!". This week we are talking all thing twins as we welcome our first ever dyzygotic male female twins and ask did they have cryptophasia as children. If you want to find out what all that means - have a listen! We would love to hear from you. If you can't stand our voices and would rather read about the science head on o…

We're diving deep into the world of neurodegeneration this week with our newest science guest Yaz (prize for guest with the nicest voice as well). Push through Alice's dull story telling to join us and our lay guest Sophie (musician and translator) in learning about the little known sensations of pain in Parkinson's disease and a... cure for Huntin…

We're back to our normal format - Silent Demelza doesn't seem to want to stay silent though. We're joined this week by Lee (a physiotherapist) and Poppy (a creative translator)! Curie delves explores the first real evidence that misophonia might need to be classified as a medical disorder and Alice blasts a sensationalisted headline by the, usually…

Welcome to our first Bonus Lay episode!!! Truth be told we ran out of friends and decided to just answer some questions we found on the internet instead. We would love to hear from you. If you can't stand our voices and would rather read about the science head on over to our blog at layitoutpodcast.wordpress.com. You can find us on instagram or twi…

We're back and we are getting Psychological this week as we welcome our next science guest! Check us out as we try and convince him to admit he works for national intelligence. If that doesn't tickle your fancy Curie explains why she is the Smith of Korea and Alice tells a really interesting story about her morning commute. NOT TO BE MISSED!! We wo…

It's the return of Natalie and Dan from episode 1! Our first repeat guests join us as we discuss how Air On The G String (giggidy) can be used for our food and how an xbox could potentially change the lives of MS patients for the better. We would love to hear from you. If you can't stand our voices and would rather read about the science head on ov…

Curie takes a nap in an MRI scanner and Alice has had a long week (what's new you ask?!). In addition to that we have the most famous and (a close) second most famous guests we have ever had on the podcast. Tune in as we attempt to blow their minds with the science behind the 5:2 diet and the humble chicken egg. We would love to hear from you. If y…

This week we discuss 2 very important issues: periods and sleep! After some very intense girl chat it's the return of the science guest. Our guest this week is especially exciting because Haya is the first person we have to have written the paper themselves. With her expertise at hand we discuss how important sleep is for our health and how much we…

This episode we are joined by not 1, not 2 but 4 guests!!!! Kinda... Not really. Alice tackles a very different type of paper and we discuss whether a big breakfast could potenitally be the answer to obesity. Curie then takes it back to her own comfort zone and explains how nuclear testing helped a major scientific discovery. We would love to hear …

Welome back to the podcast! Episode 8 already! This week Curie takes it back to some animal work again and this time to one of our weirder models we've talked about... Snails! Can these creatures really make a field rethink their whole paradigm of memory? Also Alice delves into what might be going on with her little soldiers that make her and her s…

This week we hear all about Alice's attempt to have good "participant karma" and Curie's adventures in attempts to recruit people for her study. Get a snack, you might get hungry after learning about the FODMAP diet vs some delicious sourdough rye bread... And then join us as we decide whether we can really find out what someone looks like just fro…

Curie gets down and dirty with some molecular biology and debunks yet ANOTHER sensationalised headline while Alice is back on her favourite topic - alcohol! And if thats not enough for you, check out our new tag line. We would love to hear from you! Get in touch on Twitter and Instagram @layitoutpodcast. You can also e-mail us on layitoutpodcast@gm…

This week we welcome our first ever science guest - who also happens to be the shows harshest critic! Join us as he takes us and our extremely scientifically aware non-science guest (his questions put the scientists to shame!) through the cute but sometimes grim world of electrophysiology, where we learn why men should look after all of those littl…

Join us this week as we go back to our favourite topic: POO! We learn that vegans and omnivores may have more in common than you think and how monkey brains may be able to cure autism... We would love to hear from you! Get in touch on Twitter and Instagram @layitoutpodcast. You can also e-mail us on layitoutpodcast@gmail.com. And if you can't stand…

We start with yet another rant about a particularly problematic article from Science about women and science communication on instagram. We jump right into some creepy vampire-esque neuroscience using mice in an investigation into how our circulatory system might affect memory. We also learn about the effects of one of our favourite things: Alcohol…

Here it is! The second episode of Lay It Out! Join us as we rant about our opinions on science communication and delve into the world of faecal microbiota transplantation, science-y words and a very beautiful poo personificaation with our guest Jamie (a MATHEMATICAL science graduate, not maths). We would love to hear from you! Get in touch on Twitt…

Hello everyone and welcome to our brand spanking new podcast all about trying to break down the wonderful, frustratingly complex and misrepresented world of science! In this episode, find out who are, what we do and why we've decided to sit down to ramble and rant in front of a microphone. We would love to hear from you! Get in touch on Twitter and…

Welcome to the first official episode of Lay It Out! In this episode Curie and Alice try to explain how induced pluripotent stem cells may be able to to predict lithium response in bipolar disorder and the influence of ultra-processed food on cancer risk. Stay tuned for some serious discussions about bowel movements, pluriwhat cells?, the scourge o…