Everything Hertz

Episode Archive

Episode Archive

178 episodes of Everything Hertz since the first episode, which aired on March 2nd, 2016.

  • 34: E-health (with Robin Kok)

    December 22nd, 2016  |  1 hr 11 secs

    Dan and James have their very first guest! For this episode they're joined by Robin Kok (University of Southern Denmark) to talk e-health. They also cover a recent blog post that inadvertently highlighted questionable research practices in psychology.

  • 33: Zombie theories

    December 16th, 2016  |  43 mins 53 secs

    Dan and James discuss Zombie theories, which are scientific ideas that continue to live on in the absence of evidence. Why do these ideas persist and how do we kill them for good?

  • 32: Can worrying about getting sick make you sicker?

    December 1st, 2016  |  43 mins 8 secs

    Dan and James discuss a new population study that linked health anxiety data with future heart disease

  • 31: Discover your psychiatric risk with this one weird trick

    November 16th, 2016  |  54 mins 56 secs

    Dan and James discuss a recent study of over one million Swedish men that found that higher resting heart rate late adolescence was associated with an increased risk for subsequent psychiatric illness

  • 30: Authorship

    November 2nd, 2016  |  49 mins 5 secs

    Dan and James discuss authorship in the biomedical sciences

  • 29: Learning new skills

    October 16th, 2016  |  48 mins 55 secs

    Dan and James talk about how they learn new things

  • 28: Positive developments in biomedical science

    September 30th, 2016  |  49 mins 4 secs

    Pre-registration, p-hacking, power, protocols. All these concepts are pretty mainstream in 2016 but hardly discussed 5 years ago. In this episode, James and Dan talk about these ideas and other developments in biomedical science.

  • 27: Complaints and grievances

    September 23rd, 2016  |  52 mins 45 secs

    Dan and James discuss complaints and grievances. Stay tuned for part 2 (next episode) where things get positive.

  • 26: Interpreting effect sizes

    September 9th, 2016  |  45 mins 31 secs

    Dan and James discuss Dan's recent preprint describing an effect size distribution analysis on HRV studies.

  • 25: Misunderstanding p-values

    August 27th, 2016  |  55 mins 2 secs

    P-values are universal, but do we really know what they mean? In this episode, Dan and James discuss a recent paper describing the failure to correctly interpret p-values in a sample of academic psychologists.

  • 24: Incentive structures in science

    August 17th, 2016  |  1 hr 20 secs

    Science funding has a series of built in incentive structures, but what sort of science does this produce?

  • 23: Serious academics

    August 11th, 2016  |  52 mins 40 secs

    Can you be a "serious academic" while still posting photos on Instagram? In this episode, James and Dan discuss a recent article bemoaning the infiltration of the "selfie epidemic" into academia.

  • 22: Pokemon and public health

    August 3rd, 2016  |  59 mins 15 secs

    Pokemon Go is sweeping the world and getting people walking again! But is the Pokemon Go 'model' a golden opportunity to tackle obesity or just another fad?

  • 21: This is your brain on steroids

    July 22nd, 2016  |  58 mins 17 secs

    Dan and James discuss a new paper that compared brain structure in long-term steroid users and non-using weightlifters

  • 20: Sample sizes in psychology studies

    July 13th, 2016  |  1 hr 1 min

    Can psychologists learn more by studying fewer people?

  • 19: Let us spray: oxytocin and spirituality

    July 6th, 2016  |  47 mins 24 secs

    Dan and James discuss a recent paper on intranasal oxytocin and spirituality