Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of April 8

This past week we went to the daytime for our new science and technology related content.  Matthew Gray Gubler was on The Talk April 9th.  He plays an F.B.I. agent and behavioral scientist with multiple doctoral degrees on Criminal Minds.

In repeats of note, the April 11 episode of The Late Show re-aired the March 15 episode that opened with a riff on Bill Nye the Science Guy.  Commenting on proposed budget cuts to the National Science Foundation and other research agencies, the show brought us Nye’s ‘replacement,’ Ted Rye.  Host Stephen Colbert made reference to the cuts in the monologue later in the show.

I’d have mentioned the Ted Rye sketch back in March if I wasn’t so far behind in watching the show.  In other Late Show content that fits here, the March 19 edition discussed a recent news article about exposure to space reactivating viruses like herpes.  Besides covering it in the monologue, the program opened the show with a Star Trek scenario that addresses such a possibility.