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Volcanoes. Trees. Drunk butterflies. Mars missions. Slug sex. Death. Beauty standards. Anxiety busters. Beer science. Bee drama. Ologies with Alie Ward gives a voice to the folks in lab coats, in the field, hunched over data, and asks them — politely, with feeling — what is your deal.

Hosted by humorist and science correspondent Alie Ward, the show learns about what drives these ologists, why they love what they do, and how they stumbled into their careers. You'll take away facts about topics through the lens of the people who love them. Also through your host's own slack-jawed wonder.

Swear words are left in, weird stories included, the dark parts not glossed over. Learning shouldn't stop when you leave a classroom.

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