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Strange Bites

Lance Martin

Strange Bites is a short science podcast. Lance Martin takes a real discovery in biology, physics, neuroscience, genetics, anthropology, or paleontology and explains it in about fifteen minutes, with just enough story to make the facts stick.New episodes twice a week. Recent bites include a brain built from two lineages, bacteria that grow their own wires, a gene that can still jump, and fossils that may have been an animal’s compass. Sources are in the show notes. The science is not simplified past recognition. It is told so you can follow it.If you want weird science, new discoveries, and a science podcast you can finish on a walk, start anywhere. Stay strange. Question everything.

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73 episodes

  1. Episode 73: The Mushroom That Draws Little People 12:45
  2. Episode 72: The Fungus Named for a Dinosaur 12:09
  3. Episode 71: The Diamond That Answered the Laser 12:10
  4. Episode 70: The Ghostly Green Star 12:31
  5. Episode 69: The Rule That Does Not Care About Size 11:39
  6. Episode 68: The Tail That Chose to Leave 12:26
  7. Episode 67: The Needle in the Stone 9:50
  8. Episode 66: The Gene That Refused to Sit Still 10:24
  9. Episode 65: The Microbe that Learned to Flip a Neuron 15:21
  10. Episode 64: Is Your Brain One Organ or Two? 12:42
  11. Episode 63: The Frequency of the Heart 15:50
  12. Episode 62: Fountain of Youth for Your Eyes?? 18:09
  13. Episode 61: The 11,000 Year Old Human/Leopard Statue 13:07
  14. Episode 60: Bacteria that Grows Metal Cables 14:21
  15. Episode 59: Living Circuit Boards 15:34
  16. Episode 58: The Devil Flower 15:17
  17. Episode 57: The Hidden Magic in the Sea Squirt 14:38
  18. Episode 56: The Cookie That Used to Be a Bottle 15:05
  19. Episode 55: The Real Syrax Dragon 8:41
  20. Episode 54: A Cat’s Invisible Calling Card 8:20
  21. Episode 53: Is Aging just a Maintenance Failure? 7:14
  22. Episode 52: The Helix That Remembers 15:00
  23. Episode 51: The Y That Holds The World 8:00
  24. Episode 50 - The Single Wrong Letter 9:11
  25. Episode 49: Cancer's Best Friend 9:17
  26. Episode 48: The Ghosts in Our Blood 8:34
  27. Episode 47: The Rock-Eaters of the Antrim Shale 11:13
  28. Episode 46: Whispers in the Blood 8:02
  29. Episode 45: The Night Time Emerged in the Lab 8:36
  30. Episode 44: That Bacteria That Eats Poison 9:39
  31. Episode 43: Rockstar Chimps 10:09
  32. Episode 42: Spudcell 14:13
  33. Episode 41: The Water Jets of Pythia’s Oasis 9:00
  34. Episode 40: The Sleeping Brain That Knew the Next Word 11:30
  35. Episode 39: The Pink Enigma: Salt Clouds on a Distant World 9:14
  36. Episode 38: The Secret Recipes of Eternity 12:55
  37. Episode 37: The Stones That Refused to Stay Buried 13:15
  38. Episode 36: The Hidden Switch – Humanity’s Secret Power to Regrow 14:45
  39. Episode 35: The Fungi Superhighway 9:32
  40. Episode 34: The Snuffleupagus of the Sea 11:36
  41. Episode 33: Helmets from the Deep 6:39
  42. Episode 32: Is the Block Universe Theory Wrong 8:46
  43. Episode 31: Saturn’s Phantom Spin and the Eye That Saw Through It 7:36
  44. Episode 30: Solar-Thermal Desalination 7:19
  45. Episode 29: Light and the Narwhal’s Tusk 7:22
  46. Episode 28: The Crab-Clawed Bug of the Cretaceous 8:39
  47. Episode 27: The Ancient Logs of Kalambo Falls 8:37
  48. Episode 26: The Whisper in the Beam 9:10
  49. Episode 25: The Pocket Shark’s Secret Glow 7:54
  50. Episode 24: The Invisible Sound That Haunts Us 10:11