Hi, this is against everyone with Connor Abeeb. This is the fifth episode in a series of episodes

on science and how science and scientific concepts intersect with our lives in surprising ways.

These episodes are not exactly scientific, but they aren't scientific either. Each one is an

exploration of what science can inspire in our lives and in culture.

So I started on episode 260 with Marielaine Van Himstra about how to connect with the expansiveness of space to understand the challenges we face today.

And then on episode 261, I talked with Bear Biologist and Tooth and Claw podcast host,

Wes Larson, about our fascination with animal attacks on people.

On episode 262, with culture and nature philosopher Erica Berry about what wolves can teach us about being human.

And then I did a deep dive on the last episode,

uh, episode 263 into the work of rebel scientists and scientific heretic or

scientific heretic or heretic to scientism, Wilhelm Reich, because I wanted to look at what happened

when science, whether its conclusions

are correct or not, lives on the margins of scientific consensus and when a scientist

really wants to push forward science and scientific understanding.

Now we're going to be going into the science that I studied in grad school,

which is biology, more specifically organismic and evolutionary biology, and more specifically,

focus on symbiosis. And to do that, I'll be talking with Pridrag Slyzschevich, biologist and lecturer at

Brunel University in London, an author of the excellent new book, Bioscivilizations, a new look at the

science of life. I think science is changing, that's for sure.

And it's okay for physics to be mechanistic and also for chemistry to be mechanistic to

some extent, to some degree.

But actually it's not okay for biology to be fully mechanized because that really is not possible.

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