Episode 16: Coleen Murphy on Aging, Biology, and the Future
Aging — everybody does it, very few people actually do something about it. Coleen Murphy is an exception. In her […]
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Biology
Episode 14: Alta Charo on Bioethics and the Law
To paraphrase Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park, scientists tend to focus on whether they can do something, not whether they
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Episode 8: Carl Zimmer on Heredity, DNA, and Editing Genes
Our understanding of heredity and genetics is improving at blinding speed. It was only in the year 2000 that scientists
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Episode 5: Geoffrey West on Networks, Scaling, and the Pace of Life
If you scale up an animal to twice its height, keeping everything else proportionate, its volume and weight become eight
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Episode 3: Alice Dreger on Sexuality, Truth, and Justice
The human mind loves nothing more than to build mental boxes — categories — and put things into them, then
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