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What Is Life?

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What Is Life?

 4.8 via 44 ratings in Apple Podcasts
A science podcast from Carl Zimmer
Website: http://whatislife.libsyn.com/website

A series of live conversations between writer Carl Zimmer and eight leading thinkers on the question of what it means to be alive. What Is Life? was recorded in front of a live audience at Caveat in New York and is supported by a grant from Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation initiative.

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