Unconventional Wisdom: Recent Episodes
Kelly McMahan
Host Kelly McMahan takes us on a deep dive into unusual subject matter, exploring the mysterious histories and curious origins of things. You say "tell me something I don't know," and we've got you covered. | Unconventional Wisdom is hosted by Kelly McMahan, a college student who loves writing, drinking hot tea, and asking way too many questions.
This week, we're letting fate (and a random call number generator) decide the next topic in the first installment of Unconventional Wisdom's "Library Lottery." Kelly becomes acquainted with the pharmacology floor and talks about our role as consumers in the generic drug market.
This week, Kelly is joined by friends Jacob Epstein, Jose Cruz, and Hailey Furilla to talk about ants on logs, infinite cornucopias, and dog-walking in order to understand some of math's most unreasonable and counterintuitive problems.
This week, we're going absolutely bananas. Kelly is joined by a friend and self-proclaimed "banana hater", Hailey Furilla, to discuss the trials and tribulations of the modern banana crop, as well as the theory that artificial banana flavoring is derived from extinct bananas.