#38 Treat Nobody's Fever?
Joe Alcock takes a time out for short podcast to talk about a paper published this month on fever. Paul Young's group looked for, and could not find, any group of patients who do better from aggressiv...
26 Feb 201911min
#37 Does Fasting Make You Smarter
Coffee Brown and Joe Alcock talk about the recent paper by Mark P. Mattson, "An Evolutionary Perspective on Why Food Overconsumption Impairs Cognition" published in the journal Cell. Does overeating m...
14 Feb 20191h 5min
#36 The Naked Emperor
Are our bodies the enemy in sepsis? I argue no. Decades of experiments in sepsis show that most interventions focused on the host have been either ineffective or harmful. With this track record of fa...
30 Jan 201948min
#35 the Evolution of Sleep Part 2
Why we sleep is not well understood. The study of sleep is one of the last frontiers in human biology. In addition to smoking and bad diet, we can add sleep loss to the list of risk factors for chroni...
3 Jul 201846min
#34 The Evolution of Sleep Part 1
Why do we sleep? Why did sleep evolve? How much is enough? Do we die if we don’t get enough? Kate Rusk, Joe Alcock, Coffee Brown and special guest Gandhi Yetish discuss these topics in this episode of...
3 Jul 201846min
#33 Human Superpowers Part 2
In this age of Marvel comics, superheroes with superpowers have attained a high degree of cultural fascination. But some superpowers exist in real life, courtesy of natural selection. In part two of t...
30 Jun 20181h 8min
#32 Human Superpowers Part 1
In this episode, originally livestreamed on Inertia TV, Kate Rusk and Coffee Brown and Joe Alcock discuss whether humans can have actual superpowers. Some human groups have unique abilities to survive...
30 Jun 20181h 9min
#31 Reproductive Conflicts
Kate Rusk and Joe Alcock discuss the evolutionary reasons why pregnancy is so dangerous, both for fetus and for mother. Genetic conflicts of interest between paternal and maternal genes may give rise ...
29 Jun 20181h 47min
