Episode 343 - Dr. Alex Platt

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

Jessecase, Comedy, News, Mattkirshen, Standup, Andywood, Science & Medicine, Science, Brookswheelan

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Population geneticist Dr. Alex Platt joins Matt and Andy to discuss the complex world of genetics and its role in shaping humans the world over, also dealing with the many misconceptions and blind spots people have about genetic diversity and the history of the human species.

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0:00.0	Probably Science
0:02.0	Hey everyone, welcome to Probably Science. I'm Matt Kirshin.
0:13.3	And I am Andy Wood.
0:14.5	That was the second attempt at an intro, and it went a lot better.
0:17.3	This is a 40-minute delay caused by, who knows?
0:21.1	Traffic, L.A. This is the worst-minute delay caused by... Who knows? Traffic.
0:21.7	L.A.
0:22.0	this is the worst L.A.
0:23.1	traffic I've ever been in,
0:24.0	and I'm trying not to be in a bad mood,
0:25.4	but it's...
0:26.1	In eight and a half years,
0:27.0	I've never spent an hour and ten minutes going three miles.
0:30.1	I heard it was Andrea Buccelli's fault.
0:32.3	I blame Andrew Buccelli. Yeah. Is that who was at the Hollywood Bowl? He's doing three nights. Why would tonight, if you're doing three nights of shows at the bowl,
0:39.4	why would any one of those nights cause an historic traffic event?
0:43.6	Here's my guess.
0:45.1	He's blind.
0:46.4	Oh, he is?
0:47.7	I'm not kidding.
0:48.4	I didn't know that.
0:49.1	Isn't he?
	...

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