Special Episode: Mary Roach & Replaceable You
When your car breaks down or your fridge goes on the fritz, you can order a replacement part and get things back up and running in no time. The same cannot always be said for another intricate machine...
16 Sep 202548min
Ep 187 Hypothermia Part 2: How it helps
Last week, we took you through all the ways that cold can harm us and the harrowing history of humans perishing at its icy hands. Ending the story there would be skipping over the parts where cold get...
9 Sep 20251h 5min
Ep 186 Hypothermia Part 1: How it hurts
For all our wondrous adaptations as a species - our big brains, our capacity for language, our opposable thumbs - we humans are not well-equipped to deal with the cold. Take us out of our insulated dw...
2 Sep 202557min
Special Episode: Lina Zeldovich & The Living Medicine
The development of antibiotics was one of the greatest turning points in the history of medicine. Bacterial infections that were once death sentences were cured within a matter of days after administr...
26 Aug 202551min
Ep 185 The Great Smog of London: “Thick, drab, yellow, disgusting”
Some things just go together: peanut butter and jelly, bacon and eggs, milk and cereal, London and smog. Or at least, that’s the way things used to be until the Great Smog of 1952. (Don’t worry, the f...
19 Aug 20251h 14min
Ep 184 The Gallbladder: Humor us
For most of us, there probably hasn’t been a good reason for you to think about your gallbladder. Ever. Much of the time, it sits there, silently storing, concentrating, and, when needed, churning out...
12 Aug 20251h 22min
Special Episode: Carl Zimmer & Airborne
In the first years of the COVID pandemic, a debate raged: was the virus transmitted via respiratory droplets, or was it airborne? For some, this distinction seemed overly technical, pedantic even. But...
5 Aug 202549min
Ep 183 SSRIs Part 2: Action
Last week, we took you on a journey of discovery and innovation, and this week we’re gonna tell you how the heck it all works. That means a deep dive into the nitty gritty of SSRIs, from what serotoni...
29 Juli 20251h 10min
