Interview Interlude Playlist, Part 9: Carl Zimmer
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Let's talk about heredity. Here's our 2018 chat with acclaimed science writer Carl Zimmer about his book “She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity.”
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| 0:30.0 | The one you feed is a podcast that explores how you can support your mental health. |
| 0:34.3 | I'm your host, Eric Zimmer, and through insightful interviews with psychologists, |
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| 1:29.4 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from howstuffworks.com. |
| 1:54.8 | Hey, you welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb, |
| 1:57.7 | and I'm Jim McCormick, and boy, do we have a treat for you today? That's right. We're chatting |
| 2:02.6 | with Carl Zimmer about his new book. She has her mother's laugh, the powers, perversions, |
| 2:08.9 | and potential of heredity. This is a fantastic book. I was trying to finish it before we talk to |
| 2:15.3 | him today, and I was up till 2 a.m. last night and getting to the very last page, but it was worth it. |
| 2:20.4 | It is a great book. I really highly recommend it. It's a brick that's just full of weird, |
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