Big Biology
By Art Woods, Cam Ghalambor, and Marty Martin
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The biggest biology podcast for the biggest science and biology fans. Featuring in-depth discussions with scientists tackling the biggest questions in evolution, genetics, ecology, climate, neuroscience, diseases, the origins of life, psychology and more. If it's biological, groundbreaking, philosophical or mysterious you'll find it here. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bigbiology/support
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Big Biology Presents: The Naked Scientists Podcast
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Biology as its own metaphor (Ep 119)
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Dog in the Machine (Ep 118)
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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The time of your life (Ep 117)
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Rewilding biology (Ep 116)
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Does a porpoise have a purpose? Agency and goals in evolution (Ep 115)
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Follow the data: the search for COVID’s origin (Ep 105)
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Cooperation versus conflict and the path to multicellularity (Ep 107)
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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How power explains the history of life (Ep 114)
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Cephalopods: aliens among us (Ep 113)
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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The Entangled Organism (Ep 112)
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Evolution of the Invaders (Ep 111)
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Tempest in a barcode: how rapidly can we (and should we) identify new species? (Ep 110)
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Nothing in biology makes sense except through time (Ep 109)
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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The dialectical biologists: challenges of studying evolution in nature (Ep 108)
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Long-term experimental evolution in the wild (Ep 106)
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Big Bio Bonus Episode: We’re Hiring!
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Little Biology: Why can’t I regrow my arm?
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Sleeping beauties: the mystery of dormant innovations in nature and culture (Ep 104)
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Pest-o, change-o: how culture shapes our view of animal commensals (Ep 103)
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Inherency in evolution (Ep 102)
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May 18, 2023 |
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NEON: The promises and challenges of large-scale ecological research (Ep 101)
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May 04, 2023 |
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A retrospective on agency (Ep 100)
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Creativity and passion in science communication (Ep 99)
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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There’s a thousand genes for that! (Ep 98)
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Mutation bias in evolution: climbing Mount Probable (Ep 97)
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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The network motifs that run the world (Ep 96)
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Why are we like this? (Ep 95)
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Introducing: The Science of Everything
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Synthesizing life on the planet (Ep 94)
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Assembling life in the universe (Ep 93)
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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A journey into the brilliant abyss (Ep 92)
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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How stealth organs make super soldier ants (Ep 91)
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Fabricated images threaten the integrity of Alzheimer’s research (Ep 90)
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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How one gene determines the fate of a food web (Ep 89)
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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How I learned to stop worrying and follow the data (Ep 88)
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Big Biology Trailer
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Life in the lab, are model organisms an asset or impediment to biology? (Ep 87)
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Introducing Genetics Unzipped
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Replaying the MP3 of Life (Episode 21 Re-release)
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Containing Cancer with Squirrel Ecology (Ep 12 Re-release)
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Shrimp Fight Clubs and Basic Science (Ep 6 Re-release)
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Bioelectric Computation (Ep 39 Re-release)
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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What the flux? The evolution of oxygen cascades (Ep 86)
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Little Biology: Zombie Parasites
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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The rise of the mammals and fall of the dinosaurs (Ep 85)
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Immune System: Make Love not War (Ep 8 Re-release)
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May 26, 2022 |
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Fractals in the Foliage (Ep 84)
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May 12, 2022 |
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The Amazon in us (Ep 83)
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Survival of the systems: The power of persistence (Ep 63 Re-release)
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Organisms are not machines (Ep 82)
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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How staying cool blunts evolution (Ep 81)
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Human-wildlife conflict in a changing world (Ep 80)
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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How the genetic lottery affects complex human traits (Ep 79)
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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The amphibian omnivore’s dilemma: Plasticity-led evolution in spadefoot tadpoles (Ep 78)
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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A (Very) Short Interview with Henry Gee: 4 Billion Years in 30 Minutes (Ep 77)
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Beasty beats: The origins of musicality (Ep 76)
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Hidden network: The evolutionary relationship between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and plants (Ep 75)
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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Big Biology Year End Wrap-Up
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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Food for thought: Plant domestication and the promise of green super rice (Ep 74)
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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A gene’s-eye view: Useful tool or narrow lens? (Ep 73)
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Stability and change: Lessons from the Serengeti (Ep 72)
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Please don't kill the bats! (Ep 5 Re-release)
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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A tattoo on the brain: The neurobiology of Alzheimer's disease (Ep 71)
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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The virus and the vegan: How the brain gains inference (Ep 70)
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Butterfl-eyes: The evolution and function of insect vision (Ep 69)
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Performance anxiety: How coastal invertebrates cope with changing climate extremes (Ep 68)
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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Season 4 Preview (and more)
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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Foiling the flashy: How artificial light dims insect behavior (Ep 67)
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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Old vaccines for new pandemics (Ep 66)
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Mouse on a hill: The structure and function of agency (Ep 65)
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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The stall protocol: Diapause in the annual killifish (Ep 64)
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May 20, 2021 |
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Survival of the systems: The power of persistence (Ep 63)
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May 06, 2021 |
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Situated Darwinism: Organism-centered evolution (Ep 62)
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Decoding CRISPR: Jennifer Doudna and the future of gene editing (Ep 61)
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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Human-assisted evolution: Conserving coral diversity (Ep 60)
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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Feel the burn: The limits of human energy expenditure and endurance (Ep 59)
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Finding our voice: The neurobiology of vocal learning (Ep 58)
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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Georgia O'Keeffe and the Red Queen: Ecosystem services via coevolution (Ep 57)
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Bee kind: The buzz on global insect declines (Ep 56)
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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New content on Patreon, social media and our website.
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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Hot wings: How birds stay cool under the Australian sun (Ep 55)
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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And the Oskar goes to: Germ-soma differentiation in insects (Ep 54)
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Turn down the lights: The ecological effects of bright nights (Ep 53)
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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Coronavirus III: Town Hall (Ep 52)
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and Contingency (Ep 51)
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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Big Blue: How whales evolved to become ocean titans (Ep 50)
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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The Vital Question: The Chemistry of Early Life (Ep 49)
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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An 8-legged Bite: The Evolution of Venom in Spiders and Beyond (Ep 48)
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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The Origin of Us: Human evolution (Ep 47)
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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Smarthropods: Cognition in Insects (Ep 46)
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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CROSSOVER: On Coronavirus, Crisis, and Creative Opportunity with David Krakauer (Complexity podcast from the Santa Fe Institute)
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Aug 26, 2020 |
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Season 3 Preview
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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RE-RUN: Tangling the Tree of Life
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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RE-RUN: Information, Aliens and the Origin of Life
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Jul 23, 2020 |
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Ep 45: Student Spotlight
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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Ep 44: The Science of Slime
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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Ep 43: Project ICARUS
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May 28, 2020 |
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Ep 42: Fatal Fungus
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May 15, 2020 |
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Ep 41: Coronavirus II
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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We need your help to make season three!
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Apr 21, 2020 |
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Ep 40: Songbird Scents
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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Ep 39: Bioelectric Computation
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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Ep 38: Coronavirus
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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Ep 37: Loading the Dice
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Mar 13, 2020 |
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Ep 36: Intentional Evolution
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Feb 27, 2020 |
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Ep 35: PruittData
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Feb 17, 2020 |
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Ep 34: Matrix Matters
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Feb 13, 2020 |
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Ep 33: Magic Puzzle Box
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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Ep 32: Diluting Disease
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Jan 16, 2020 |
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Ep 31: Methusalicious
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Dec 30, 2019 |
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Happy Holidays!
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Dec 14, 2019 |
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Ep 30: Know Your 'Ome
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Dec 06, 2019 |
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Ep 29: Lick Your Kids
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Nov 22, 2019 |
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Ep 28: Evolution Now
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Nov 08, 2019 |
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Ep 27: Flight of the Ur-Sect
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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Ep 26: The Long Road to Mexico
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Oct 10, 2019 |
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Ep 25: Dopamine Unto Others
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Sep 26, 2019 |
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Ep 24: Mental Smoke Detectors
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Sep 13, 2019 |
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Ep 23: Beauty of the Beasts
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Aug 29, 2019 |
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Season 2 Preview
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Aug 15, 2019 |
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Ep 22: Whale Aware
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May 30, 2019 |
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Ep 21: Replaying the MP3 of Life
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May 09, 2019 |
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Ep 20: Ask Us Anything
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Apr 19, 2019 |
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Ep 19: Microbial Garden of Eden
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Apr 04, 2019 |
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Ep 18: Bug in the system
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Mar 21, 2019 |
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Ep 17: 1000 ways to make a baby
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Mar 07, 2019 |
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Ep 16: Rules of Life
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Feb 21, 2019 |
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Ep 15: Climate change: should they stay or should they go?
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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Ep 14: Plasticity? Sounds fishy.
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Jan 17, 2019 |
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Ep 13: Unraveling Genetic Knots
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Dec 20, 2018 |
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Ep 12: Containing Cancer with Squirrel Ecology
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Dec 06, 2018 |
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Ep 11: The Vagina Research Institute (Full Conversation)
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Nov 15, 2018 |
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Ep 11: The Vagina Research Institute
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Nov 15, 2018 |
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Ep 10: Tangling the Tree of Life
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Oct 18, 2018 |
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Ep 9: Information, Aliens, and the Origin of Life (Full Conversation)
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Sep 22, 2018 |
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Ep 9: Information, Aliens, and the Origin of Life
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Sep 22, 2018 |
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Ep 8: Immune System: Make Love not War (Full Conversation)
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Aug 19, 2018 |
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Ep 8: Immune System: Make Love not War
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Aug 19, 2018 |
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Ep 7: Genes Don't Do Crap (Full Conversation)
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Jul 20, 2018 |
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Ep 7: Genes Don't Do Crap
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Jul 20, 2018 |
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Ep 6: Shrimp Fight Clubs and Basic Science (Extra)
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Jun 29, 2018 |
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Ep 6: Shrimp Fight Clubs and Basic Science (Full Conversation)
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May 17, 2018 |
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Ep 6: Shrimp Fight Clubs and Basic Science
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May 17, 2018 |
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Ep 5: Please Don't Kill the Bats (Full Conversation)
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Mar 28, 2018 |
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Ep 5: Please Don't Kill the Bats
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Mar 28, 2018 |
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Ep 4: The Science and Politics of Basic Biology (Full Conversation)
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Feb 14, 2018 |
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Ep 4: The Science and Politics of Basic Biology
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Feb 14, 2018 |
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Ep 3: Animal Size and Godzilla's Breakfast (Full Conversation)
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Jan 05, 2018 |
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Ep 3: Animal Size and Godzilla's Breakfast
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Jan 03, 2018 |
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Ep 2: Harnessing Randomness (Full Conversation)
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Dec 07, 2017 |
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Ep 2: Harnessing Randomness
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Dec 07, 2017 |
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Ep 1: The Drunken Monkey (Full Conversation)
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Dec 06, 2017 |
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Ep 1: The Drunken Monkey
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Dec 06, 2017 |
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What is Big Biology?
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Dec 06, 2017 |