Viruses in the Air

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PJ Vogt

Society & Culture, Business, Technology

4.8 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In the 1930s, two scientists made a very important discovery, but their breakthrough idea failed to spread. In large part because the two were considered so deeply annoying. Reporter Carl Zimmer brings us a story of the scientific process and its very human constraints. Airborne by Carl Zimmer Apply to work with Search Engine Support the show To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:49.7	Okay. I've been thinking lately a lot about germs.
1:50.9	I'll tell you why.
1:54.8	Everyone where I live has been getting hideously sick.
1:55.9	It's that time of year.
1:57.8	There's been a flu thing going around.
1:59.4	There's been norovirus.
2:02.4	Lots of my friends describing in overly vivid terms what it was like for them when vomit came out of their nose. Lovely stuff. And the season
2:08.5	has reminded me of how sickness itself is this mystery that we rarely completely solve. Your body
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