You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast.

If you like this podcast, can we recommend another one?

It's called Big Picture Science.

You can hear it wherever you get your podcast and its name tells part of the story

The big picture questions and the most interesting research in science.

Seth and I are the. Seth is a scientist.

I am Molly and I'm a science journalist

and we talk to people smarter than us

and we have fun along the way.

The show is called Big Picture Science

and as Seth said, you can hear it wherever you get your podcast.

You ever hear the one about the mad scientist who tried to create life, about how things got complicated,

and the monster itself wondered if it had a soul or if it was merely a puppet that looked like a sentient being.

Oh, that story's old, really old.

Perhaps far older than you might imagine. Before Commander Data, before

Pinocchio, before Frankenstein, there was the man-made monster called the

homunculus. And if you wanted to make a homunculus, you really had to take matters into your own hand.

It's actually quite unlike anything we've ever seen before.

A giant hairy creature,

part ape, on that.

In Larkness, a 24 mile long bottomless lake in the Highlands of Scotland.

It's a creature known as the Loch Ness Monster. Yeah. Monster Talk. Welcome to Monster Talk, the science show about monsters.

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