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Category: Season 8

March 31, 2026March 2, 2026Season 8

Episode 205 Cancer Part 4: Where do things stand today?

For the entirety of our species’ history, our approach to cancer has largely been to react, to design new therapies and better […]

March 24, 2026March 25, 2026Season 8

Episode 204 Cancer Part 3: How do we treat it?

A century and a half ago, the list of effective cancer treatments was essentially a single entry: surgery. Today, in 2026, you’d […]

March 17, 2026March 2, 2026Season 8, TPWKY Book Club

Special Episode: Lawrence Ingrassia & A Fatal Inheritance

For centuries, physicians noticed that cancer sometimes ran in families, but until the 1960s, an answer to this mystery remained out of […]

March 10, 2026March 12, 2026Season 8

Episode 203 Cancer Part 2: Why does it happen?

Each of our cells can become cancerous. It’s an uncomfortable, yet unavoidable truth. Nor is it a truth restricted to our species […]

March 3, 2026March 3, 2026Season 8

Episode 202 Cancer Part 1: What is it?

Cancer has touched every one of us in some capacity, and learning of a diagnosis inspires many more questions than it answers. […]

March 2, 2026March 2, 2026Season 8, TPWKY Book Club

Special Episode: Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden & Rat City

What happens if you put a bunch of rats in an enclosure and provision them with unlimited food and water? Researcher John […]

February 17, 2026March 2, 2026Season 8

Episode 201 Poop Part 2: Flushed away

Poop is an incredibly valuable and massively underutilized resource. However, most of us don’t see it that way because of our evolutionarily […]

February 10, 2026February 10, 2026Season 8

Episode 200 Poop Part 1: How the sausage gets made

It might be stinky and it might be unpleasant to behold, but we all do it. For many of us, our poop […]

February 3, 2026January 20, 2026Season 8

Special Episode Nicola Twilley & Frostbite

For much of the world, refrigeration is such a commonplace technology that we rarely stop to wonder at the many ways it […]

January 27, 2026January 27, 2026Season 8

Episode 199 Sleep Part 2: Predictably unpredictable

Now that we know just how critical sleep is, we’re all making sure we get the amount we need, right? Unfortunately no. […]

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