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Apr 29, 2020

In this episode, we join forces with Pitt’s Center for Bioethics & Health Law to present a special Medical Humanities Mondays panel discussion on the COVID-19 pandemic.  Mari Webel of Pitt’s Department of History, Lisa S. Parker  of the Center for Bioethics & Health Law, and our own Jake Dechant of Pitt’s School...


Mar 28, 2020

In this special gonzo episode, Emma, Jake, and Jeff broadcast on improvised equipment from their respective pandemic shelters as the COVID-19 crisis expands faster than any one person can appreciate.  We race escalating morbidity and Emma’s dwindling laptop battery as we tackle issues social and scientific,...


Mar 15, 2020

In this episode, we delve accurately if irreverently into the Covid-19 epidemic.  It’s everything you’ve always wanted to know (and probably a few things you didn’t) about how viruses reproduce, or where they hide when they’re not causing us trouble.  Along the way, we misidentify the inventor of PCR and riff on...