Back From the Dead

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

Education, Science, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 12.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Today we're telling tales that push life to the ultimate limit. We're bringing things back from the dead, diving into the mysteries of immortality and asking just how much can the human body take? We talk to Rohan Schoeman, Dr. Eduard Argudo, Audrey Mash, Prof. Ferdinando Boero, Prof. Shin Kubota, Dr. Moiya McTier, and Prof. David Howard. UPDATE 5/17/21: An earlier version of this episode said that Nesyamun was scanned using MRI. While David has used MRI to scan vocal tracts in his research, Nesyamun’s vocal tract was imaged using a CT scan. Check out the transcript here: https://bit.ly/33NVcF7 Credits: This episode was produced by Meryl Horn, Rose Rimler, Michelle Dang, Nick DelRose, and Wendy Zukerman, with help from Taylor White. We’re edited by Blythe Terrell and Caitlin Kenney. Fact checking by Eva Dasher. Translation by Ben Milam, Kana Hatakeyama, and Bumi Hidaka. Mix and sound design by Bumi Hidaka. Music written by Bumi Hidaka, Peter Leonard, Bobby Lord, Marcus Bagala, Emma Munger and So Wylie. And special thanks to all the researchers we talked to for this episode, including Dr. Jordi Riera, Professor Lars J Bjertnæs, Dr. Peter Paal, Dr. Herman Brugger, Prof. Maria Pia Miglietta, and Dr. Jenna Valley. And a big thanks to Sinduja Srinivasan, Katie Cruickshank, Jessica Mack, the Zukerman family and Joseph Lavelle Wilson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman and you're listening to Science Versus from Gimlet.
0:04.0	Today on the show, we're doing something a little different.
0:07.0	The team at Science Versus is telling tales that push life to the ultimate limit.
0:15.0	We've got stories of bringing things back from the dead.
0:18.0	We're diving into the mysteries of immortality and asking just how much the human body can take.
0:30.0	Our first story starts like many do with a love story.
0:34.0	And I'm going to tell you this one without producer Merrill Horn.
0:38.0	The guy who fell in love is Rohan Schumann.
0:40.0	He's an English teacher and he's from South Africa.
0:43.0	And several years ago, he met Audrey Mash.
0:46.0	They ran in the same music scene and went and said drum and bass nights together.
0:50.0	One thing led to another. They got married.
0:53.0	And he just loved how adventurous she was.
0:56.0	She brought that up with me.
0:58.0	There's all sorts of stuff that I have done now that I wouldn't have liked like
1:02.0	scuba diving and hiking.
1:06.0	It was all going great until one trip a few years ago.
1:10.0	It was in November and they were living in Barcelona at the time.
1:14.0	And they decided to do some hiking in the Pyrenees Mountains.
1:18.0	It was in this remote spot. It took about a day to hike in.
1:22.0	But it ended up being kind of a bust.
1:25.0	It was drizzly and windy the whole time.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Spotify Studios, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Spotify Studios and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.