Bug Off!

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2011

⏱️ 51 minutes

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What you can’t see … can make you sick. Humans have been battling viruses and bacteria since the beginning of time. The malaria parasite has been keeping deadly company with us for 500,000 years. King Tut had it and so did Julius Caesar. What’s keeping this bug going today? Also, how disease almost halted the most ambitious engineering project in the world … how elite disease detectives puzzle out perplexing epidemics … And – could tiny bugs from spaaace, ace, ace be our ancestors? Guests: Sonia Shah - Author of The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years Michael Conniff - Historian, director of Global Studies at San Jose State University, and author of Black Labor on a White Canal: Panama, 1904-1981 (Pitt Latin American Series) Mark Pendergrast - Author of Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service Robert Zubrin - President of the Mars Society Descripción en español First aired August 2, 2010 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast.
0:05.0	The world is constantly changing and transforming.
0:09.0	Cut through some of the noise with What's New With Wired,
0:12.0	a podcast that goes in depth on the
0:14.5	latest news and technology and culture. Their award-winning journalism will
0:18.8	help you make sense of what's happening in the world. Listen to what's new with Wired wherever you get your podcasts.
0:25.7	That's What's New With Wired, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.4	The corporate world is like the ocean.
0:32.4	It's alluring, but it's also full of deadly creatures that can shred you to pieces.
0:36.5	It becomes kind of like a game of thrones political arena where everyone's trying to murder you to get your job.
0:42.9	My family doesn't come from corporate backgrounds,
0:44.8	so I didn't have any sort of guidance in that.
0:47.1	This is not your typical work podcast.
0:49.3	Sometimes you need to be empathetic.
0:51.0	And then there are times that you ask for input but you don't really
0:53.4	give a shit. Listen to the and the award-nominated podcast surfing corporate.
0:57.3	Stretch opportunity. What is it? Yovan class? Get out of here. Hang on Seth, Seth, let me just dry my hands.
1:07.0	What you can't see can make you sick.
1:10.0	I'm Seth Shostak, finding the urge to wash my hands.
1:13.0	And I'm Molly Bentley, and this is Big Picture Science.
1:15.2	What's Buggy New?
1:16.4	Well, millions of things, all very small.
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