Ep. 33 Pandemic: PLAGUE
The second episode in our pandemic series is about one of the OGs, plague! This sucker has killed hundreds of millions of people in the past couple millennia, but has been brought low by antibiotics (...
23 Mar 202059min
Ep. 32 Pandemic: Tuberculosis
This new series of episodes we're doing is on different pandemic diseases throughout history, with our first disease being tuberculosis! The series won't be a bunch of episodes in a row, but as we do ...
16 Mar 202048min
Ep. 31 Dogs! Pupperinos Part 2
This is the second half of our two-parter on mankind's best friend! Last week's episode covered domestication and breeds. This week is about dog behavior, dog jobs, and dog fritos feet. Featuring a pr...
10 Mar 20201h 3min
Ep. 30.5 Bonus Minisode: Corona-USA
SARS-CoV-2, HCOV-19, nCoV-19... Whatever you want to call this coronavirus, it is making a splash in countries all over the globe: big outbreaks in Italy, South Korea, and Iran, along with growing num...
10 Mar 202021min
Ep. 30 Dogs! (Because We Did One On Cats) Part 1
Humankind's best friend! Pupperinos! In this week's episode of Petri Dish Nathan and Sean talk about dogs! This is part 1, where we talk about the domestication of dogs and some biological information...
2 Mar 202051min
Ep. 29 Vaccines! Part 2
Hi Folks! If you're just stopping by, consider listening to Vaccines Part 1 to get info on the types of vaccines and what ingredients go into making them -- we use some of those terms here! In this ep...
24 Feb 202043min
Ep. 28.5 Bonus Minisode: Still Coronavirus!
Hey! The novel coronavirus (now SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19) is still out and about, doing naughty stuff! But what do we know about this sucker now, a couple of months in to this not-quite-pande...
24 Feb 202018min
Ep. 28 Vaccines! Part 1
If you're a listener to this podcast, it is probably safe to assume that you have heard of vaccines and likely are pro-vaccine. But there is a lot of cool science going on under the hood of vaccines! ...
17 Feb 202039min
