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🗓️ 19 September 2019
⏱️ 82 minutes
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PhD-having comedian Ria Lina (@rialina_) joins Matt and Andy to talk about bioinformatics, her research in viruses, specifically the herpes family of viruses, predicting this year's flu, the definition of life, the other kind of beach bodies, pathology, terrorism hypotheticals, herd immunity, viral ontology and Ria's ukulele song for Alabama.
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0:00.0 | This episode of Probably Science is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus. |
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0:08.4 | Probably science. |
0:18.7 | Hello and welcome to Probably Science. |
0:20.7 | My name is Andy Wood. I'm Matt Cursion. We're here. We're back in the living room. Yep. We're about. I don't know why I said that. We haven't been on the road much recently. We are, we haven't been in the living room for a week. Yeah, I was I was not in this living room until about half an hour ago. Right. I was in a car heading towards this living room. |
0:39.3 | We're back. |
0:40.3 | But we're now back. |
0:41.1 | It's like, |
0:41.6 | uh... |
0:42.0 | We're back in the same place where we have podcasts together in numerous other occasions. |
0:47.3 | It's like in, uh, |
0:48.3 | everybody by Backstreet Boys when they're like, |
0:50.2 | backstreet's back. |
0:51.3 | I'm like, |
0:51.5 | that's the first song I've heard by you guys what are you back |
0:54.3 | from wasn't that their breakout hit yeah but they're you know or was there something before |
1:00.6 | back streets back that they're come i thought they were singing about their back oh okay this is |
1:05.6 | a song about back streets back it hurts it's all right yeah it's all right should we introduce oh the sound of my water bottle |
1:13.5 | there yeah that's also the sound of me getting almost certainly a spam phone call oh i don't |
1:18.2 | do you call it a spam do you call unwanted junk phone call what's the word why can i think of it now |
1:23.1 | bad phone call there's a word for it you just made me forget that there's a word for it. I've also made myself forget the word. |
1:28.7 | Yeah. |
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