2021 Wrap-Up

Inquiring Minds

Science, Society & Culture, Neuroscience, Female Host, Interview, Social Sciences, Critical Thinking

4.4 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In this last episode of 2021, Adam Bristol joins Indre to talk about the major highlights of 2021, one being the journey through COVID. They map out the key episodes of Inquiring Minds throughout 2021, talk through their personal highlights, and recommend books to read. Recapping episodes touching on the history of quarantine, food and science, the interaction between nature and humans, and quantitative approaches to human dating, today’s episode wraps up 2021 in a neat bow, providing an excellent springboard to even more entertaining and informative shows in the coming year. Show Links: Inquiring Minds Podcast Homepage Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds See https://omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes: Science-Based Strategies for Better Parenting--from Tots to Teens Project Hail Mary: A Novel A (Very) Short History of Life On EarthSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

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0:00.0	You and Betty and the Nancy's and Bill's and Joes and Jane's will find in the study of science
0:06.4	a richer, more rewarding life.
0:10.6	Welcome to Inquiring Minds. I'm Indravis Gontas.
0:14.2	This is a podcast that explores the space where science and society collide.
0:18.2	We want to find out what's true, what's left to discover, and why it matters.
0:22.6	There is more than what we see.
0:30.6	Joining me in this last episode of 2021 is Adam Bristol.
0:35.6	Hey, Andrea, how's it going today? It's pretty good. I'm really excited to
0:39.5	wrap up this year, although I'm a little bit nervous about what 2022 holds. Yeah, I was going to say
0:44.7	that it doesn't feel that long ago that we had a year-end wrap-up episode. And here we are again
0:51.4	with another wrap-up show. And yeah, heading into 22, I think perhaps the optimism of the calendar turning to 21 is feeling like it's, I don't know, tenuous at best.
1:05.8	Yeah. And as you can tell, I think like a lot of scientists right now in the world, there's a lot more left
1:11.6	to discover and finding out what's true can be pretty challenging. And one thing that I've noticed
1:16.7	is that it does feel like 2021 was both an incredibly short and an incredibly long year. Like,
1:22.2	you're right. It feels like just yesterday, we were doing this kind of wrap up. We were locking
1:26.9	down, you know, there was going to be
1:29.1	no holiday. You know, it was the COVID that stole Christmas last year. We were in Hawaii, as a matter
1:34.2	effect. But the vaccines were on their way. It was really hopeful. So that was a hopeful time.
1:39.7	We just thought we just got to get through until we can get vaccinated and then things will be
1:43.2	okay.
1:52.5	And here we are with Omicron, threatening to shut us all down again as we come into 2022.
1:57.2	I mean, that's where science and society collides. The fact that the world is not static.
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