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477 – The Truth About Sex and Gender: What Nature Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are with Dr. Nathan Lents

https://www.smartpeoplepodcast.com/episode-player/6068/477-the-truth-about-sex-and-gender-what-nature-can-tell-us-about-who-we-really-are-with-dr-nathan-lents.mp3?updated=1740545508

Sex and gender are at the center of heated debates—but what if much of what we believe isn’t rooted in […]

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459 – Does UV Light Actually Sterilize? The Truth About Using UV Light to Sanitize and a New Technology That Could Change Everything with Founder, John Rajchert

https://www.smartpeoplepodcast.com/episode-player/5944/459-does-uv-light-actually-sterilize-the-truth-about-using-uv-light-to-sanitize-and-a-new-technology-that-could-change-everything-with-founder-john-rajchert.mp3?updated=1718677922

We have all seen the new gadgets that use UV light to “sterilize”. Everything from UV light phone cleaners to […]

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453 – Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality with Nobel laureate, Venki Ramakrishnan

https://www.smartpeoplepodcast.com/episode-player/5906/453-why-we-die-the-new-science-of-aging-and-the-quest-for-immortality-with-nobel-laureate-venki-ramakrishnan.mp3?updated=1711415077

Today, we are living through a revolution in biology. Giant strides are being made in understanding why we age—and why […]

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440 – If we are the only sentient beings, what does that mean for how we live? A manifesto for living with Physicist, Marcelo Gleiser.

https://www.smartpeoplepodcast.com/episode-player/5806/440-if-we-are-the-only-sentient-beings-what-does-that-mean-for-how-we-live-a-manifesto-for-living-with-physicist-marcelo-gleiser.mp3?updated=1695685865

Marcelo Gleiser is a theoretical physicist and public intellectual at Dartmouth College working on basic research ranging from cosmology and […]

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438 – Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars with Harvard Astronomer Avi Loeb

https://www.smartpeoplepodcast.com/episode-player/5789/438-interstellar-the-search-for-extraterrestrial-life-and-our-future-in-the-stars-with-harvard-astronomer-avi-loeb.mp3?updated=1692925171

Avi Loeb, the longest serving Chair of Harvard’s Astronomy Department, presented a theory that shook the scientific community: our solar system, Loeb […]

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Episode 433 – A New Theory that Explains the Mysteries of Life with Dr. Neil Theise

https://www.smartpeoplepodcast.com/episode-player/5749/episode-433-a-new-theory-that-explains-the-mysteries-of-life-with-dr-neil-theise.mp3?updated=1687217583

Neil Theise is a professor of pathology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Through his scientific research, he has […]

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Episode 418 – Bethany Brookshire – Can we Separate Humans from Nature?

https://www.smartpeoplepodcast.com/episode-player/5624/episode-418-bethany-brookshire-can-we-separate-humans-from-nature.mp3?updated=1669079248

Bethany Brookshire is a science writer and author. She is also a podcast host on the podcast Science for the People, […]

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400 – Dr. John Abramson – How the Pharmaceutical Industry is Scamming Us

https://www.smartpeoplepodcast.com/episode-player/5421/400-dr-john-abramson-how-the-pharmaceutical-industry-is-scamming-us.mp3

Dr. John Abramson has served as a family physician for 22 years. He has been on the faculty at Harvard […]

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386 – Bill Schutt – What We Can Learn from the Heart

https://www.smartpeoplepodcast.com/episode-player/5289/386-bill-schutt-what-we-can-learn-from-the-heart.mp3

Bill Schutt is an Emeritus Professor of Biology at LIU Post and a research associate at the American Museum of […]

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380 – Alex Bezzerides – Why Our Bodies Break

https://www.smartpeoplepodcast.com/episode-player/5226/380-alex-bezzerides-why-our-bodies-break.mp3

Alex Bezzerides is a professor of biology at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho where he teaches a wide range […]

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