You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast.

If you like this podcast, can we recommend another one?

It's called Big Picture Science.

You can hear it wherever you get your podcast and its name tells part of the story

The big picture questions and the most interesting research in science.

Seth and I are the. Seth is a scientist.

I am Molly and I'm a science journalist

and we talk to people smarter than us

and we have fun along the way.

The show is called Big Picture Science

and as Seth said, you can hear it wherever you get your podcast.

My family didn't have cable TV for much of my youth, but my great aunt and uncle did, and

I would often walk over to their house to watch the kind of shows which thrilled me with their discussion of monsters, mysteries, and magic.

The king of these shows was in search of.

It was hosted by Leonard Nimoy, and could any casting choice have better

occluded skepticism than having that paragon of logic and reason Star Trek's

Mr. Spock introducing the magnificent march of mysteries that the show paraded

before us each week.

Just listen to this clip.

Long before the Egyptians built the pyramids, someone constructed a vast stone city atop

a peak in the Andes. The ruins stand empty and silent.

Each carving is a disconnected figure from the past,

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