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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

From the Vault: Bill Schutt on the Heart

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Social Sciences, Science, Life Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert chats with Bill Schutt, author of "Pump: A Natural History of the Heart," about the evolution of the heart and the history of humanity’s attempt to understand it -- along with a few questions about monsters. (originally published 09/30/2021)

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Joel Stein. I want you to close your eyes and imagine a pocket watch.

0:05.7

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0:11.6

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0:16.2

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0:23.6

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0:25.0

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0:30.3

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0:37.3

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0:41.2

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1:01.2

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1:10.6

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1:24.1

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1:37.2

Hey, you welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam.

1:41.1

And I'm Joe McCormack, and we've got a couple of days off coming up, so we are running a vault episode today. This episode originally aired on September 30th, 2021, and Rob, this was an interview that you did.

1:55.0

Yes, this is an interview with Bill Shutt, author of Pump, a natural history of the heart about the evolution of the heart and the history of humanity's attempts to understand the heart.

2:07.8

So it's a really fun chat, and at the end of the episode, we actually discuss monsters a little bit. We talk about the thing from another world.

2:14.5

Oh, I can see because of the date. This would have been right on the edge of October last year, wasn't it?

2:19.7

Yeah, but it was weird because it was just after we had watched the thing from another world for Weird House Cinema.

2:27.8

But I just organically ask him, I was like, hey, you know, you obviously write about vampires and so forth, and you're very interested in sort of monstrous aspects of anatomy and the biological world.

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