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Virus Biology, SARS-CoV-2, & Origins of COVID-19 | Alina Chan | 18
Season 1 Episode 18
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Nick talks to genetic engineer Alina Chan, PhD. She is working on engineering new forms of gene therapy using viral vectors to target d…
4 years, 8 months ago
Scientific Publishing, Academic Peer Review & the Business of Science | Michael Eisen | 17
Season 1 Episode 17
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Nick talks to Dr. Michael Eisen, a biologist at UC-Berkeley and editor-in-chief for eLife, a non-profit open access science journal. Th…
4 years, 9 months ago
Sleep, Dreaming, Memory & the Brain | Robert Stickgold | 16
Season 1 Episode 16
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Nick talks to Dr. Bob Stickgold, a cognitive neuroscientist and sleep expert. Dr. Stickgold is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Med…
4 years, 9 months ago
Chemical Analysis of Magic Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest | Michael Beug | Bonus Episode
Season 1
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This bonus episode is a lecture given by mushroom expert Dr. Michael Beug (probably from the 1980s). Professor Beug describes the resul…
4 years, 9 months ago
Medical Marijuana, Cannabis, Clinical Research & Cannabinoid Therapeutics | Ziva Cooper | 15
Season 1 Episode 15
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Dr. Ziva Cooper, Director of the UCLA Cannabis Research Initiative, discusses the latest medical cannabis research. She goes into every…
4 years, 9 months ago
Demetrix & Bioengineering Rare Cannabinoids | Jeff Ubersax | 14
Season 1 Episode 14
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Nick Jikomes talks to Jeff Ubersax, PhD, CEO of the biotechnology company Demetrix (who supported this episode). Jeff discussed the sci…
4 years, 9 months ago
Social Networks, Dominance Hierarchies & Animal Behavior | Elizabeth Hobson | 13
Season 1 Episode 13
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Nick talks to Elizabeth Hobson, PhD, whose lab studies the evolution of decision-making, social cognition, social networks, and dominan…
4 years, 9 months ago
Cities, Companies, Organisms and the Science of Growth & Scale | Geoffrey West | 12
Season 1 Episode 12
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Nick talks to theoretical physicist Dr. Geoffrey West about the universal scaling laws that describe how organisms, companies, and citi…
4 years, 10 months ago
Endocannabinoid System, Stress & PTSD | Matthew Hill | 11
Season 1 Episode 11
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Nick talks to Dr. Matthew Hill about the role of the endocannabinoid system in regulating stress and emotional behavior. They also disc…
4 years, 10 months ago
Human Evolution, Neanderthals, Paleoanthropology, Ancient DNA & Human Diversity | John Hawks | 10
Season 1 Episode 10
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Nick talks to paleoanthropologist John Hawks about the story of human evolution.
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4 years, 10 months ago