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Episode 10 - Reading: What is the meaning of life?

Episode 10 - Reading: What is the meaning of life?

Update: 2018-02-18

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Episode 10! In a decimal system that is surely a milestone; in any other system of counting maybe not, but we'll take it!

Tim reads from Sean Carroll's wonderful book "The Big Picture", and the intrepid evolutionary biologists (your hosts) discuss the meaning of life, conflict between science and religion on this topic, meditation, and a bunch of other stuff. It's fun!

Spoiler alert - we don't really know what the meaning of life is, but as Bill Fay(he's a musician, check him out) says "like my old dad said, life is people".....

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Episode 10 - Reading: What is the meaning of life?

Episode 10 - Reading: What is the meaning of life?

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