337 - Living on the Edge

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🗓️ 10 April 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

00:00:00 - Carl Zimmer (@CarlZimmer) has returned to the show to talk to us about his new book, Life’s Edge: The Search For What It Means To Be Alive. While it may be hard to define life, we can provide definite timestamps for the first part of our conversation about the book!

00:26:16 - Having access to liquid is an essential part of life, which includes drinks. Ryan pontificates about his Hoplark HopTea with Spruce Tips which is surprisingly refreshing. After a digression, Patrick gets to reveal that he is also enjoying the nearly non-alcoholic Nanny State from BrewDog.

00:36:52 - Part 2 of our discussion with Carl Zimmer is the second part of our conversation about his book. Please enjoy!

00:57:42 - PaleoPOWs are a lot like life, hard to define but you know it when you see it. Ryan insists that Patrick reconciles with Jeff' S’s e-mail responding to our previous dismissal of 3D in movies by pointing out the Spy Kids franchise as a counterexample. Ryan then reads an e-mail from Bob M. about some previous confusion regarding ungulates and notoungulates referred to in a previous episode. The best resource we know of is the Tree of Life Project, but please get in touch if you know of others!

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Music credit: A Beautiful Life - Broke For Free
Audio Production by Rob Heath

Transcript

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0:00.0	Don't remember how to do this.
0:02.7	What do I usually?
0:03.4	Hello.
0:03.8	Talk into the mic.
0:04.7	There we are.
0:05.2	Point your mouth at the mic and just pretend that we were at the pub grabbing a pint.
0:11.7	And who's round is it?
0:13.2	That is going to take a lot of imagination these days.
0:16.7	From science sort of.com, you're listening to Science Sort of.
0:36.2	Hello and welcome to Science Sort of. You're listening to Episode 337.
0:38.3	I'm your host, Ryan, and joining me to talk about things that are science, things that are
0:40.9	sort of science, and things that wish they were science.
0:42.9	It's Dr. Patrick Wheatley.
0:45.1	Patrick.
0:46.5	Yes.
0:47.5	This episode, we were featuring an interview I did with Carl Zimmer.
0:53.2	Oh, man.
0:58.0	Heavy hitter. Yeah, we've had Carl on the show before to talk about his previous book. She has her mother's laugh, which was all about sort of an exploration
1:02.5	of genetics and what does it mean that we pass our genes on to the next generation, which
1:07.7	is a lot more complicated than I would have thought.
1:15.9	And in this book, you would think, you know, you would think, though, if you've explored that,
1:18.1	you've sort of explored what it means to be alive.
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