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CANCER Virus Hunters!

CANCER Virus Hunters!

biology, scientific method, ecology, environment, evolution, history, history of sciencePhilip ShaneAugust 26, 2022

A Nation Without SANITATION!

A Nation Without SANITATION!

biology, scientific method, ecology, environment, evolution, history, history of sciencePhilip ShaneAugust 19, 2022

FLOATING Continents!

FLOATING Continents!

engineering, audience, biology, climate change, environment, evolution, geology, sea lifePhilip ShaneJuly 29, 2022

Galileo Sees The WEBB Images!

Galileo Sees The WEBB Images!

cosmology, aliens, audience, communication, evolution, psychology, society, technologyPhilip ShaneJuly 15, 2022

Beware ET Bearing GIFTS!

Beware ET Bearing GIFTS!

cosmology, aliens, audience, communication, evolution, psychology, society, technologyPhilip ShaneJuly 8, 2022

Carl SAGAN & The Alien MIND

Carl SAGAN & The Alien MIND

biology, psychology, aliens, astronomy, communication, evolution, history of science, mathematics, nasa, physics, scientific method, seti, technologyPhilip ShaneJune 17, 2022

Pickpocketing GENES?

Pickpocketing GENES?

biology, scientific method, evolution, genetics, virologyPhilip ShaneMay 27, 2022

Panspermia? PANSPERMIA!

Panspermia? PANSPERMIA!

biology, scientific method, aliens, astrophysics, cosmology, evolution, genetics, history of science, mars, nasa, seti, universePhilip ShaneMay 20, 2022

POWER In The WILD with Lee Alan Dugatkin!

POWER In The WILD with Lee Alan Dugatkin!

communication, biology, evolution, genetics, scientific method, societyPhilip ShaneMay 6, 2022

Gecko STICKY Power!

Gecko STICKY Power!

scientific method, engineering, technology, biology, evolution, physics, societyPhilip ShaneApril 15, 2022

The BBC Spaghetti Trees!

The BBC Spaghetti Trees!

scientific method, evolution, genetics, history, newsPhilip ShaneApril 1, 2022

The Mechanics of LUCK

The Mechanics of LUCK

physics, evolution, genetics, occult, psychology, scientific method, skepticism, superstitionPhilip ShaneMarch 18, 2022

Get Parasite, Get Sexy?

Get Parasite, Get Sexy?

Super powers from a tapeworm?

biology, evolution, societyPhilip ShaneMarch 4, 2022

Eat ANYTHING!

Eat ANYTHING!

What the IF you could eat ANYTHING in the WORLD? Mmmmmm!

biology, psychology, evolutionPhilip ShaneFebruary 11, 2022

No THUMBS For You!

No THUMBS For You!

biology, audience, evolution, space race, technologyPhilip ShaneJanuary 13, 2022

DUNE - Holy Spit!

DUNE - Holy Spit!

communication, scifi, technology, aliens, artificial intelligence, biology, climate change, ecology, economics, engineering, environment, evolution, religionPhilip ShaneJanuary 6, 2022

OhMyCron! Covid News Update

biology, religion, climate change, evolution, news, scientific method, vaccines, virologyPhilip ShaneDecember 9, 2021

Crabs!

Crabs!

aliens, biology, cosmology, evolution, history of science, sea lifePhilip ShaneDecember 8, 2021

Waiter, There's a Fly In My PRIMORDIAL SOUP!

Waiter, There's a Fly In My PRIMORDIAL SOUP!

How does LIFE get... living?

scifi, biology, evolution, geology, history of science, religion, scientific method, sea lifePhilip ShaneOctober 15, 2021

Superman Virus!

Superman Virus!

Viral super powers?

audience, scifi, biology, evolution, neurology, vaccines, virologyPhilip ShaneOctober 8, 2021