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Recent Episodes

Episode 7: Mark Mattson talks about benefits of intermittent fasting

Posted April 12, 2016 • 00:56:36

Intermittent fasting—alternating days in which you fast or eat only a few hundred calories a day—may have significant long-term health benefits,...

Episode 6: Michael Turner discusses LIGO & the detection of gravitational waves

Posted April 5, 2016 • 00:52:06

Michael Turner is best known for having coined the term “dark energy” in 1998. A theoretical cosmologist at the University of Chicago, Turner has...

Episode 5: Margaret Leinen discusses health of the oceans

Posted March 29, 2016 • 01:08:20

Margaret Leinen is a big name in oceanography. She’s the director of the Scripps Oceanographic Institute and vice chancellor of marine sciences at...

Episode 4: Harrison Schmitt discusses being the first scientist on the moon

Posted March 18, 2016 • 01:05:42

In this episode, we talk with Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, the first and only scientist to land on the moon. Schmitt was part of the Apollo 17 Mission in...

Episode 3: Rhonda Patrick discusses why your genes influence what you should eat

Posted March 9, 2016 • 00:45:49

Before Rhonda Perciavalle Patrick "stumbled into research"—at the renowned Salk Institute—the Southern California native was a biochemistry major...