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Episode 59: Dead Dinosaurs, Cockroach Sperm, and Monkey Testicles – A Science Sampler Platter for the New Year

Image: Male genital hook (left) and acrosomes on sperm cells (right) on Supella dominicana, described from amber. (Source: Poiner 2022)

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Episode 50: Lyra Cronin on Quantum Physics and When to Become a Robot

A still of Marilyn Monroe from the "Diamond's Are a Girl's Best Friend" performance, holding an illustration of a nitrogen vacancy center in each outstretched hand.

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Episode 17: Rae Lambert on Vaccines, Immunology, and the Horror of Organic Corporeality

Transmission electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles

Image: “Transmission electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, isolated from a patient. Image captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland.” (Source: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH – Flickr)

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Episode 13: Elizabeth Feinberg on Plastics and Post-Apocalyptic Game Plans

Illustration of the reptation model from chemistry

Image: An illustration of the concept of reptation, “motion of long linear, entangled macromolecules in amorphous polymers.” (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

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