The 2 Best Science! With Friends Podcast Episodes
1) #37 | Ritu Raman | Bio and the Bot
"I wanted to be a priest. They said, 'Girls don't do that.' I wanted to be captain of the national cricket team. They said, 'Girls don't do that.' I wanted to be a scientist. They said, 'Girls don't d...Show More
2) #42 | Kristen Lear | It’s a Bat, Bat, Bat, Bat World
If a bat handed you a margarita, would you take it? How about $3.7 billion?Controlling agricultural pests and promoting the health of agave plants—used to make tequila—are just a couple of the superhe...Show More
3) #79 | Lexi Walls | Vaccine Nation
Dr. Lexi Walls is a biochemist, not a prophet—though, admittedly, it can sometimes be hard to tell the difference.Six years ago, when Lexi started researching coronaviruses, they were an understudied ...Show More
4) #78 | Hannah Gavin | Big Little Life
Life: our planet is teeming with it. The staggering diversity of the biological world is visible everywhere, from tiny insects to sprawling trees, from orchids and corgis to mold and lemurs and banana...Show More
5) #77 | Kristi Montooth | Fruit Flies, Fedoras, and Endless Forms Most Beautiful
We’re counting down to Darwin Day, and you’re all invited to the par-TAY! This week, Jocelyn and Bradley celebrate the origin of Origin of Species author Charles Darwin with evolutionary geneticist an...Show More
#77 | Kristi Montooth | Fruit Flies, Fedoras, and Endless Forms Most Beautiful
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6) #76 | Anna Tatarko | Sweet Dreams Are Made of Bees
Fruit flies in straightjackets. Bees at slumber parties. Climate change in Game of Thrones. Everybody’s looking for something, and this episode has something for everyone! A plant ecologist turned pol...Show More
7) #75 | Scott V. Edwards | Birds Spark Hope
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -That perches in the soul -And sings the tune without the words -And never stops - at all -Emily Dickinson was clearly onto something when she penned these famous lin...Show More
8) #74 | Nidhi Gupta | Hindsight --> Insight --> Foresight
What the hell just happened? What does it all mean? And where do we go from here?If 2020 left you with a few lingering questions, you are not alone. Fortunately, London-based physician and filmmaker D...Show More
9) #73 | Discussion| Einstein’s GUT and Newton’s TOE
C’mon, it’s lovely weather for a podcast together with you! In our fa-la-la-last episode of 2020, Jocelyn and Bradley are celebrating Sir Isaac Newton’s 378th birthday with some Newtonmas caroling and...Show More
10) #72 | Stephon Alexander | Universal Beats
When Dr. Stephon Alexander listens to the music of the cosmos, he hears structure, but also flexibility. He hears familiar cadences and novel riffs. He hears strings vibrating in ten-dimensional space...Show More