Curiosity Daily Podcast: What to Do When Your Pet Is Scared, You Have Microbes Inside Your Cells, and Meet Natalia Reagan (Again!)
Learn about what to do when your pet is scared; and why the theory of endosymbiosis says you have microbes inside your cells. Then, stick around to meet Natalia Reagan: an anthropologist, primatologist, and comedian who will be filling Cody’s shoes while he’s on paternity leave.
August 27, 2020
Episode Show Notes:
What to do when your pet is scared by Cameron Duke
- Waite, M. (2020, July 28). You Can’t Reinforce Fear (So Go Ahead and Comfort Your Scared Pet) [Prerecorded presentation]. 2020 Animal Behavior Society Conference Virtual Public Day. https://www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/2020-virtual/program-public.php
- Waite, M. (2020, August 3). [Interview by C. Duke].
Endosymbiont Theory - you have microbes inside your cells by Cameron Duke
- Baum, D. A., & Baum, B. (2014). An inside-out origin for the eukaryotic cell. BMC Biology, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-014-0076-2
- Gray, M. W. (2017). Lynn Margulis and the endosymbiont hypothesis: 50 years later. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 28(10), 1285–1287. https://doi.org/10.1091/mbc.e16-07-0509
- Martin, W. F., Garg, S., & Zimorski, V. (2015). Endosymbiotic theories for eukaryote origin. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 370(1678), 20140330. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2014.0330
- Amoeba Sisters. (2018). Prokaryotic vs. Eukaryotic Cells (Updated) [YouTube Video]. In YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxujitlv8wc
- Amoeba Sisters. (2017). Endosymbiotic Theory [YouTube Video]. In YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGnS-Xk0ZqU&vl=en
Learn more about Natalia Reagan
- Follow @natalia13reagan on Twitter https://twitter.com/natalia13reagan
- Official website https://nataliareagan.com/
- Natalia Reagan on Curosity Daily: “if we evolved from monkeys, then why are there still monkeys?” https://www.curiositydaily.com/why-there-are-monkeys-if-we-evolved-from-them-nata/
- Natalia Reagan on Curiosity Daily: “do redheads experience pain differently?” https://www.curiositydaily.com/fantasy-stock-league-redhead-pain-tolerance-with-n/
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