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Everybody's Got One
Episode 631
We all think we know the story of pregnancy. Sperm meets egg, followed by nine months of nurturing, nesting, and quiet incubation. this story isn’t t…
1 year ago
Growth
Episode 630
It’s easy to take growth for granted, for it to seem expected, inevitable even. Every person starts out as a baby and grows up. Plants grow from seed…
1 year ago
More Perfect: Sex Appeal
Episode 629
In 2017 our sister show, More Perfect aired an episode all about RBG, In September of 2020, we lost Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the …
1 year ago
Revenge of the Miasma
Episode 628
Today we uncover an invisible killer hidden, for over a hundred years, by reasonable disbelief. Science journalist extraordinaire Carl Zimmer tells u…
1 year, 1 month ago
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Episode 627
Today, a story that starts small and private, with one woman alone in her bathroom, as she makes a quiet, startling discovery about her own body. But…
1 year, 1 month ago
Quantum Birds
Episode 626
Annie McEwen went to a mountain in Pennsylvania to help catch some migratory owls. Then Scott Weidensaul peeled back the owl’s feathery face disc, so…
1 year, 1 month ago
Vertigogo
Episode 625
In this episode, first aired in 2012, we have two stories of brains pushed off-course. We relive a surreal day in the life of a young researcher hija…
1 year, 1 month ago
Forever Fresh
Episode 624
We eat apples in the summer and enjoy bananas in the winter. When we do this, we go against the natural order of life which is towards death and deca…
1 year, 2 months ago
Nukes
Episode 623
In an episode first reported in 2017, we bring you a look up and down the US nuclear chain of command to find out who gets to authorize their use and…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Darkest Dark
Episode 622
We fall down the looking glass with Sönke Johnsen, a biologist who finds himself staring at one of the darkest things on the planet. So dark, it’s al…
1 year, 2 months ago