Overview
In 50 episodes, we’re going to explore biology—the science of life. Dr. Samuel Ramsey will guide you through life’s vast interconnectedness, telling lesser-known stories of biologists along the way. We’ll discover how evolution, genetics, ecology, and cell and organismal biology deepen our knowledge of every living thing: including ourselves.
Episodes
Why Did All These Elephants Die? (Intro to Ecology)
How Species Make and Break Friendships (Community Ecology)
How Did We Save The Bald Eagle? (Population Ecology)
The Effects of Climate Change
How Do We Keep Life's Jenga Tower From Toppling? (Conservation Biology)
What a weirdly long giraffe nerve can teach us about evolution
Microevolution: What's An Allele Got To Do With It?
Natural Selection: Life's Way of Stayin' Alive
Why do we have different skin colors? (Population Genetics)
Where Do Species Come From? (Speciation)
How did life begin? (Evolutionary History)
How We're All Related (Phylogeny)
Humans Develop Butt First (and other insights from the Tree of Life)
Humans Didn't Evolve From Chimps (Human Evolution)
What is Life Made of? (Carbon & Biological Molecules)
A Love Letter to H2O: Water & pH
How We See What We Can't See (Microscopes)
How Does Stuff Get Into Your Cells? (Cell Membranes)
How Do Cells Communicate? (Cell Communication)
How Do We Get Energy? (Chemical Reactions)
How do cells get their energy? (Electron Transport Chain)
Photosynthesis: The Original Solar Power
Mitosis and the Cell Cycle
Why Are All Humans Unique? Meiosis
Why Your Cat Looks Like That: Genetics
Nature? Nurture? Not so simple: Genetic Traits
Our Instruction Manual for Existing: DNA Structure & Replication
How mRNA helped save lives: DNA Transcription
How RNA gets translated into protein power
How Genes Express Themselves
Is drinking milk a Superpower? Genetic Mutations
How Do Vaccines Work?: Viruses & Vaccines
Algorithms Aren’t Just for TikTok: Bioinformatics
Why We Aren’t Just One Big Cell: Multicellular Function
Plants Are Hardcore: Plant Anatomy & Physiology
The Poop Episode: How Animals Turn Resources Into Waste
Why You’re More Than Goo: Animal Infrastructure
How Skin, Snot, and Cells Keep Us Healthy: Animal Defense Systems
What REALLY Happens When You Step on a Lego: Nervous & Endocrine Systems
How Animals Do It: Sexual & Asexual Reproduction
Gender, Sex, & Sexuality: What’s the Difference?
Why This Toad is Bad at Jumping, and Other Mysterious Animal Behavior
