Ep 101 Immortality: This Podcast Won't Kill You

Ep 101 Immortality: This Podcast Won't Kill You

For what was originally going to be our 100th regular season episode, we wanted to turn the vaguely threatening title of our podcast on its head by exploring a topic that’s not about something that can kill you but rather the hows and whys of staying alive, forever. That’s right, this week we’re taking on the immense and amorphous concept of immortality, viewed primarily through the lens of biology. Why don’t humans or any other organisms live forever, evolutionarily speaking? What can the long search for an elixir of life tell us about our future prospects of life without end? How close has current technology brought us to achieving immortality in even the remotest sense of the word? This may not be your typical TPWKY episode, but we promise laughter, trivia, and existential contemplation about the meaning of life, so you’re not gonna want to miss it.

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Ep 32 Ask the Erins

Ep 32 Ask the Erins

What exactly is disease ecology anyway? How did  TPWKY come to be? How do we come up with our quarantinis? What’s our favorite pathogen? In this very special episode, you get to hear exactly what you’...

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Ep 31 Giardia: Gerardia

Ep 31 Giardia: Gerardia

Giardia may be the most common intestinal parasite in the US and one of the most common worldwide, but did you know it was only in the last 40 years that it was officially recognized as a human pathog...

9 Juli 20191h 14min

Ep 30 Encephalitis Lethargica: Sleep Perchance to Dream (& Dream & Dream)

Ep 30 Encephalitis Lethargica: Sleep Perchance to Dream (& Dream & Dream)

Imagine this: a sickness where millions fell into a deep slumber from which they never woke. Of those that did, many remained trapped in a cage of their own bodies, unable to move or speak but fully a...

25 Juni 20191h 27min

Ep 29 Aspirin the Wonder Drug: Crossover w/ IDOP

Ep 29 Aspirin the Wonder Drug: Crossover w/ IDOP

On this very special crossover episode with our friend Matt Candeias from In Defense of Plants, we’re switching things up from poison to remedy, focusing on the plant-derived wonder drug, aspirin! We ...

11 Juni 20191h 19min

Ep 28 H. pylori: Don't try this at home

Ep 28 H. pylori: Don't try this at home

This week's episode comes with a warning: don't attempt this at home. While self-experimentation has led to many a scientific breakthrough, we're definitely not advocating it. But it happened to work ...

28 Maj 201959min

Ep 27 Vaccines Part 2: Have you thanked your immune system lately?

Ep 27 Vaccines Part 2: Have you thanked your immune system lately?

Were you stoked about the history and biology of vaccines we covered in part 1, but left with even more questions? Were you really hoping to hear us talk about anti-vaccine sentiment and address misco...

21 Maj 20192h 13min

Ep 26 Vaccines part 1: Let's hear it for Maurice

Ep 26 Vaccines part 1: Let's hear it for Maurice

The wait is finally over: this week we are very excited to bring you the episode we’ve been teasing for weeks: vaccines! This week and next (you don’t have to wait a full two weeks for the next episod...

14 Maj 20192h 4min

Ep 25 Put your hands together for: Gonorrhea!

Ep 25 Put your hands together for: Gonorrhea!

This bug deserves a big round of applause and not just because it’s nicknamed “The Clap”. Check out this week’s episode to gasp in wonder at the tricks that Neisseria gonorrhoeae uses to tiptoe past y...

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