End of the Year Q&A 2020

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

Science, Natural Sciences, Education, Earth Sciences, Science:natural Sciences

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2020

⏱️ 227 minutes

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Happy New Year! A huge thanks to everyone who sent in questions for this year’s Q&A – we got more than we could even answer! – and to everyone who has supported the podcast this year by listening, sharing, donating, and reaching out to us. Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures:http://commondescentpodcast.wordpress.com/ Find merch at the Common Descent Store! http://zazzle.com/common_descent Follow and Support us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPCFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcastInstagram: @commondescentpodcast PodBean: https://commondescentpodcast.podbean.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast/id1207586509?mt=2YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCePRXHEnZmTGum2r1l2mduw The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:18.6	Happy New Year, Will.
0:20.1	Happy New Year, David. Happy New Year, David.
0:21.4	Happy New Year listeners.
0:23.2	And welcome to the end of another year of the Common Descent podcast.
0:28.3	Which means?
0:29.4	It's time for an end of the year, Q&A.
0:31.5	Welcome back, everyone.
0:32.8	It's been quite a year, but there is plenty to celebrate from the year 2020, including the fact that our
0:40.0	podcast has done better than ever. Yeah, it's been an amazing year, productive, and so much
0:47.0	support. Lots of great episodes, lots of great other stuff, lots of new listeners, lots of great
0:53.1	interactions with listeners.
0:54.8	And as has become our tradition, we will celebrate the end of this year by answering a
0:59.7	whole lot of questions from people who sent them in.
1:03.2	I'm so excited.
1:04.3	Between mid-November and mid-December, we had a Google form up where people could
1:08.1	send in questions for us to answer in this Q&A sort of mailbag
1:13.4	episode where the goal is to answer as lots of questions from lots of people, relatively rapid
1:20.8	fire and get through.
1:22.9	Now, in the past, our episodes for the Q&A have been rather long.
1:27.7	Yep.
1:28.2	Last year's episode, I think, was three and a half hours long.
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