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Caption: Crawford Lake, Credit: David Kattenburg
After years of study, a scientific panel proposes a formal definition of the Anthropocene, naming the spot where humanity’s fingerprints are best o...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2023
  • Length: 58:05
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This week on the show: With Artemis about to launch, we need to ask ourselves an important question: What do we actually want for our moon?

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  • Added: Aug 26, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: What happens if, in an attempt to learn more about yourself, you find something ugly?

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  • Added: Aug 19, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: There's some pretty stunning news (some of it bad) about the drugs aimed at treating depression or obesity. Also, is it act...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Should we just… ignore the (pretty solid) health data saying we shouldn't drink until middle age?

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  • Added: Jul 22, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: This was it. This was the week where we got to see our universe in a way we've never seen it before. There's more to this e...

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  • Added: Jul 15, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: The need for CHAOS (and an electric tongue)

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  • Added: Jul 01, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Big assumptions about monkeypox are changing ⁠— and you really need to listen to what a chatbot in California is saying.

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  • Added: Jun 17, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on the show: A look at why some people just... aren't that interesting to be around. Also, the 'infection app' that doesn't exist.

  • Added: May 27, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Studies out of South Africa indicate that our natural immunity to Omicron might already be waning.

  • Added: May 07, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: We know now that pigs can express their happiness (or sadness) vocally. But did you know that those emotions can be manipul...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: A less healthy Gabe returns to talk long COVID, new variants & the best corona metric we still have.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: It's important for us to know what animals are "saying." And new technology lets us do just that. Also, a select few of you...

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  • Added: Apr 09, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: How could a diabetes medicine be connected with a '40% increase' in birth defects? And with stealth omicron now dominating....

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on the show: The coronavirus is spreading in Germany like never before. And restrictions are vanishing as if the pandemic didn't exist....

  • Added: Mar 26, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: 'Nobody in Ukraine is safe' - We spoke to a theoretical physicist on the ground in Ukraine about his life, his work dur...

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  • Added: Mar 19, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Just as a pandemic 'ends,' a (potentially cataclysmic) war of aggression begins — with no end in sight.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Got omicron twice? - There is more than one kind of omicron. And data has just come out on whether you might get infecte...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: We received so many messages this past week about the lopsided male COVID-19 mortality rate. Maybe you wrote one of them?

  • Added: Feb 05, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Getting COVID-19 had an impact on getting pregnant — and also, what actually causes two people to stay together?

  • Added: Jan 29, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Mass viral infections have consequences. What will omicron's be?

  • Added: Jan 21, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Take a look around — because this is the wildest part of the pandemic anyone's ever seen. And we've started to normalize a ...

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  • Added: Jan 14, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Hospitals, animals and miniature human organoids are showing us how omicron causes disease. And the news is mostly good.

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  • Added: Jan 07, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: The omicron numbers are already awful. Yet there's a case for cautious optimism based on what we've seen so far.

  • Added: Dec 31, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: How do I keep the holidays focused on mistletoe instead of misinformation? And how will the pandemic play out in 2022?

  • Added: Dec 19, 2021
  • Length: 30:00