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Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

Venom w/ Christie Wilcox

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

Talk Nerdy, Inc.

Natural Sciences, Science, Society & Culture

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2017

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Cara chats remotely with Dr. Christie Wilcox, a conservation biologist and science writer. They focus on the topic of her new book, "Venomous," including the difference between venom and poison, the vast number of animals that have evolved venom as a predation or defensive mechanism, and how the toxins in venom are being used in modern medicine to treat a variety of diseases.

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0:00.0

Oh, Hello everyone and welcome to talk nerdy. It is Monday, March 13th and I'm

0:21.0

your host Kara Santa Maria. This week we're going to be chatting

0:25.1

with a venom scientist and a great science writer named Dr. Christie Wilcox

0:31.1

but before we get to that I want to thank those of you who made

0:34.0

talk nerdy possible this week. Now remember, talk nerdy is and will always be 100%

0:39.7

free to download and the only way I can afford to do that since I do talk nerdy all by my

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lonesome is through support from listeners like yourselves so if you're interested

0:49.6

in supporting the show go on over to patreon dot com slash talk nerdy the big pledges this week

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pledges this week come from Phil T-Bare and Timothy Glover

1:02.0

along with Mark Hepburn, Pedro M Rosario Barbosa, Christian

1:06.7

Jeffrey, David Lacer, Jeffrey Perez, Stuart Oge, the Honorable Husband, Charles Payet, Jafe, Gabriel Felipe Herrimeo

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Gonzalez, Brian Holden, and last but certainly not least Jeffrey Sewall. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart. You make talk nerdy possible.

1:27.0

All right guys, this week I'm super thrilled to invite to the show Dr. Christie Wilcox. She has a PhD in cell and molecular

1:37.2

biology. She specialized in ecology, evolution, and conservation biology and she had a specific focus during her research and it's continued

1:46.5

throughout her science writing career in venomous animals. So she has a new book called venomous. You can find it now on

1:56.4

Amazon or your local bookstore wherever books are sold and we're going to dive

2:00.4

right into that now. So without any further ado here she is

2:04.1

Christy Wilcox. Well Christy thank you so much for joining me today. It's a

2:10.3

pleasure. I am excited that we are chatting.

2:14.2

We are doing it remotely via Skype, but I haven't seen you,

2:20.2

oh my God, in so long.

2:21.7

And the reason we're doing it remotely is because we don't

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