Miniature mastodons and graviportal pigeons
Big animals evolve to be small on islands, while tiny ones get large. The dodo, for example, was a massive pigeon, while Sicily used to be home to miniature elephants. Why does this pattern emerge? T...
11 Sep 42min
The Mighty Mite
Tim and Syma talk to Isabel Smallegange who is interested in tiny little eight-legged animals called mites. Why would anyone study these things and what can they tell us about how the world works?Coul...
7 Aug 40min
The Art and Science of our Beating Hearts
Your heart will beat between 2.5 and 3 billion times over the course of our life, and many of us will become ill, and potentially die, from heart disease. Our hearts are not only critical to each of u...
26 Jun 49min
Where Genome Editing and Artificial Intelligence meet New Species Lie
In this episode Tim and Syma talk to Adrian Woolfson about his new book, “On the Future of Species: Authoring Life by Means of Artificial Biological Intelligence” in which he makes the case that we ca...
5 Feb 45min
Badly Behaving Billionaires
Badly behaving billionaires can spark scandals that help democracy thrive!Tim and Syma talk to Pepper Culpepper about his new book in which he argues that corporate scandals might just save democracy....
29 Jan 42min
The Science of Christmas
Happy Christmas everybody! Syma and Tim discuss the science behind Christmas. From too much port to the way that reindeer survive in the cold, this is an episode not to miss.If you are a business and ...
24 Des 202522min
A Little History Of The Earth
Tim and Syma chat with Jamie Woodward, Professor of Physical Geography, at the University of Manchester about the history of our home planet. They cover 4.5 billion in 30 minutes, discussing snowball ...
11 Des 202531min
The Rise and Decline of Us
Tim and Syma chat with Henry Gee about his two most recent books “The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why our Species is on the Edge of Extinction” and “A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth: ...
8 Des 202530min
