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Ep 187 Hypothermia Part 2: How it helps
Season 8
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 ge…
Published on 12 hours ago
Ep 186 Hypothermia Part 1: How it hurts
Season 8
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 d…
Published on 1 week ago
Special Episode: Lina Zeldovich & The Living Medicine
Season 8
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 administ…
Published on 2 weeks ago
Ep 185 The Great Smog of London: “Thick, drab, yellow, disgusting”
Season 8
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 …
Published on 3 weeks ago
Ep 184 The Gallbladder: Humor us
Season 8
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 ou…
Published on 4 weeks ago
Special Episode: Carl Zimmer & Airborne
Season 8
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. Bu…
Published on 1 month ago
Ep 183 SSRIs Part 2: Action
Season 8
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 seroton…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Ep 182 SSRIs Part 1: Origin
Season 8
Since first hitting the shelves nearly 40 years ago, SSRIs have become one of the most commonly prescribed classes of antidepressants around the world, as well as one of the most discussed and misund…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Special Episode: Wendy Chin-Tanner & King of the Armadillos
Season 8
We’ve got a very special episode of the TPWKY book club this week! We’re featuring our very first fiction book: King of the Armadillos by Wendy Chin-Tanner. This novel tells the story of a young man …
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Ep 181 PCOS: Beyond the cysts
Season 8
What’s in a name? What can you really tell from a label like “polycystic ovarian syndrome”? And how much of that is more misconception than truth? The answer, as it turns out, is the former. In this …
Published on 2 months ago