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Jun 10
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9. What if humans kept evolving? + publi...

Liv Grant & Taz Shipley
About this episode

🐵This season we are asking… What if the biggest “what ifs” actually happened?

We’re gonna be diving into the science behind humanity’s most existential questions. What if I fell into a black hole, what if bacteria are controlling us, What if we stop ageing, and more!

This week we’re talking human evolution… Have we stopped evolving? Superhumans…? Controlling our evolution…? How might we evolve? Tune in to find out!

We’re also back this week with a listener dilemma, we’re talking author names on papers, how do you pick your name. tune in to find out, and ladies this one is for you!!

Guys… we also have a brand new website socultured.com !

And on there you can find… spoiler alert!!! OUR MERCH! We’re super excited to see you repping the so cultured podcast merch around your lab/office so please do tag us on Instagram! 👚

Thank you to Scite for sponsoring this season of the So Cultured Podcast. If you guys would like to check out scite, head to scite.ai and use the code SCP for 50% off your first month or year!

🗒️ SHARE YOUR LABORATEA TO BE FEATURED ON THE SHOW : go to our website socultured.com or you can use our old anon google doc https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSftEuu6Xu6VWxurDzr6sKStnYCf4v5UrF47K7SH_rxUzlbFYw/viewform

 

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0:00 intro

4:25 What if humans keep evolving?

40:40 publishing papers in my husbands name….

 

𝗚𝗼𝘁 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲?

💌 Reach out to us at ⁠socultured.com or soculturedpodcast@gmail.com⁠

 

#sciencepodcast #soculturedpodcast #stempodcast #humanevolution

 


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