00:00:00 - Carl Zimmer (@CarlZimmer) has returned to the show to talk to us about his new book, Life’s Edge: The Search For What It Means To Be Alive. While it may be hard to define life, we can provide definite timestamps for the first part of our conversation about the book!
00:26:16 - Having access to liquid is an essential part of life, which includes drinks. Ryan pontificates about his Hoplark HopTea with Spruce Tips which is surprisingly refreshing. After a digression, Patrick gets to reveal that he is also enjoying the nearly non-alcoholic Nanny State from BrewDog.
00:36:52 - Part 2 of our discussion with Carl Zimmer is the second part of our conversation about his book. Please enjoy!
00:57:42 - PaleoPOWs are a lot like life, hard to define but you know it when you see it. Ryan insists that Patrick reconciles with Jeff' S’s e-mail responding to our previous dismissal of 3D in movies by pointing out the Spy Kids franchise as a counterexample. Ryan then reads an e-mail from Bob M. about some previous confusion regarding ungulates and notoungulates referred to in a previous episode. The best resource we know of is the Tree of Life Project, but please get in touch if you know of others!
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Music credit: A Beautiful Life - Broke For Free
Audio Production by Rob Heath
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308 - AAAS Part I, Draw It Out
307 - Laughing all the way to the lab
306 - The World Without Us
305 - AGU Part V, How To Train Your Science
304 - AGU Part IV, To see an Ocean in a grain of a foram
303 - AGU Part III, Erupting with Creativity
302 - AGU Part II, Dune or dune not, there is no dry (ice)
301 - AGU Part I, The Fifth Element
300 - This... is... SCIENCE
299 - Phone a Friend
298 - The Whale Identity
297 - Unintentional Turtle Soup
296 - Of Fossils and Forest Fires
295 - War of the Words
294 - Owl Hollow's Eve
293 - Libations and Liquefactions
292 - Matryoshka Moochers and Median Magma
291 - Getting to the Root of it All
290 - Because Science Live
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