Siddhartha Mukherjee (physician & biologist)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Siddhartha Mukherjee is an author, biologist, and physician. Siddhartha joins the Armchair Expert to discuss how the evolution of cells can advance medical technology, how some body parts can reject cancer cells, and how the view of the opioid epidemic has changed. Siddhartha and Dax talk about where the idea of reclaiming one's identity came from, what it means to be an insider or outsider of a certain group, and the differences between RNA and DNA. Siddhartha explains the different ways to organize a book, why he doesn't own a television, and how cells communicate with each other in the human body. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert Experts on Expert, I'm joined by Lily Padman.
0:06.6	Hi.
0:07.6	Hello.
0:08.6	One of the most impressive authors we're ever going to interview is today.
0:13.4	Pulitzer Prize winner, Siddhartha Mukherjee,
0:16.7	who wrote the most beautiful book
0:18.7	called The Emperor of All Maladies,
0:20.9	a biography of cancer and the gene, an intimate history of cancer research,
0:26.6	and probably beautiful book.
0:28.6	An incredible book.
0:29.6	I mean, really like a once in a lifetime, I couldn't believe what I was reading.
0:33.0	And comes up all the time as like one of the best books on cancer, science books, books, books.
0:38.0	Books, books. By the way, so he's incredible, Siddhartha.
0:42.0	He's also a oncologist he's a doctor he's a researcher he's every single thing yes road scholar
0:49.7	a
0:50.7	uni euni and then a beautiful writer what was mind-blowing we didn't talk about this in the fact
0:57.3	check oh what the most impressive thing I found about him is how many fucking books he's
1:02.2	read and how much he can remember.
1:04.6	Okay, so Sid, he goes by Sid by the way, Sid Mukherjee has a new book out called The Song of the Cell,
1:11.0	an exploration of medicine and the new human.
1:15.6	He's going to propose he's going to write four books basically on living.
1:20.8	And this is the third of those books and it too is extraordinarily beautiful and well written and so I hope you both read the song of the cell
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