Jun 5, 2023
When a vibrant caravan of travelers arrives with new foods, traditions, and stories, a sleepy hamlet's culinary landscape is forever altered. We explore how this 'mixing of recipes' changes the DNA menu of a population, much like the newfound dishes in Heritage Hamlet. Here's to a feast for both your mind and...
Nov 14, 2022
For decades, ever since we first began to study and understand our cell’s biology and the coding sequences of DNA, we saw bits and pieces that didn’t seem to make sense. Strings of DNA that didn’t appear to do anything at all. It appears, they do quite a lot.
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Oct 10, 2022
What came first, the chicken or the egg? It's an age old question. How about another one? What stored genetic information first? DNA or RNA?
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Written, Produced, & Narrated by: Rick Coste
Oct 3, 2022
Colossal Biosciences hopes to reintroduce the wooly mammoth to the world, thousands of years after the last one walked the earth. If successful they will have paved the way for a "de-extinction pipeline" for other lost species.
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Sep 19, 2022
In 1976, British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins published The Selfish Gene. It made exactly the splash he’d intended, but people were confused. How can genes be selfish?
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Written, Produced, & Narrated by: Rick...