Grave Matters

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2010

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

We could choose not to pay income tax and suffer the consequences. But we can’t avoid death. The biological functions of all organisms eventually cease. But why should this be? Find out why animals die and meet one creature that is biologically immortal. Plus, a trip to the Body Farm where decaying bodies help science…how we might cheat the Big Sleep with drugs… why Mexican cemeteries look like villages… and a doctor’s fight against one of the world’s deadliest diseases. Guests: Bill Bass - Forensic Anthropologist, founder of the University of Tennessee Forensic Research Facility. Author of Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science and fiction, written under the pen name, Jefferson Bass. The latest: Bones of Betrayal: A Body Farm Novel. Stanley Brandes - Cultural Anthropologist, University of California, Berkeley, author of Skulls to the Living, Bread to the Dead: The Day of the Dead in Mexico and Beyond Matt Kaeberlein - Pathologist, University of Washington Ross Donaldson - Doctor and author of The Lassa Ward Descripción en español 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 filled with many questions such as, did giants exist?
0:09.0	What is junk DNA?
0:10.4	Does it mean that you're trash?
0:11.8	Do you ever wonder if aliens have underwater bases in our oceans and that's why there are so many
0:16.8	UFO sightings off the coast of islands all over the world?
0:20.8	How serious even is climate change and when should we start building our rafts?
0:25.0	Hello everyone, you may recognize me as Gabby from the History of Everything podcast.
0:29.0	And my name is Bruna, and you don't recognize me from anything yet. Together we're two scientists. is a
0:33.7	and you don't recognize me from anything yet. Together we're two scientists who explore the answers to these questions and many
0:37.3	many more in our new podcast, Mystery of Everything,
0:40.6	available everywhere you get your podcast.
0:43.0	The corporate world is like the ocean.
0:45.0	It's alluring, but it's also full of deadly creatures that can shred you to pieces.
0:49.0	It becomes kind of like a Game ofrones political arena where everyone's trying to
0:54.1	murder you to get your job. My family doesn't come from corporate
0:57.1	backgrounds so I didn't have any sort of guidance in that. This is not your typical
1:01.4	work podcast. Sometimes you need to be empathetic.
1:03.9	And then there are times that you ask for input,
1:05.8	but you don't really give a shit.
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1:09.6	surfing corporate.
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