87: Prof. Carl Zimmer - What It Means to be 'Alive'

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Andrew Gold

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🗓️ 27 December 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Popular science writer, journalist and Yale University Professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry Carl Zimmer is joining me to finally answer the late Beatle George Harrison's question: what is life. Sign up on Apple Podcasts or http://patreon.com/andrewgold for the bonus bits. Prof. Carl Zimmer links: http://carlzimmer.com https://twitter.com/carlzimmer Life's Edge book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08QJM2CJY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok http://andrewgoldpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Bam, picture this! You're watching your favorite artist,
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1:07.0	That's a song by George Harrison for those of you who don't know, but popular science writer, journalist, and Yale University Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Carl Zimmer, is joining me to finally answer the late Beatles question.
1:25.8	What is life?
1:28.3	It's a funny thing.
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