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FORA.tv Science Carl Zimmer: A Planet of Viruses

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"Scientists are discovering viruses faster than they can make sense of them," says science writer Carl Zimmer of the most rapidly-evolving organism on the planet. Zimmer explores how little we really know about these mighty, miniscule lifeforms.

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Season:Episode	Title	Runtime	Air Date	User Rating	Queue
Season 1					All
41	Jonathan Elsen On Microbes: the ...	24:06	01/10/2012
40	Will We Ever Understand the Brain?	1:22:22	01/05/2012
39	Why Space Matters: Investing in ...	26:03	12/30/2011
38	Lucy's Legacy: the Quest for Hum...	1:14:01	08/05/2011
37	Carl Zimmer: A Planet of Viruses	1:33:22	06/24/2011
36	Lera Boroditsky: How Language Sh...	1:37:53	04/07/2011
35	Robert Sapolsky: Are Humans Just...	1:16:41	03/11/2011
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33	The World's Oldest Living Organisms	1:08:44	01/14/2011
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Season:Episode	Title	Type	Runtime	Air Date	User Rating	Queue
-	Paul Ekman On Evolution and the ...	Excerpt	04:09	04/02/2012
1 : 41	Microbiome: the Ecosystems Livin...	Excerpt	05:22	01/10/2012
1 : 40	The Secret Lives of the Brain	Excerpt	03:42	01/05/2012
1 : 40	The Brain: a Machine Built of Co...	Excerpt	03:23	01/05/2012
1 : 39	Scientists On Space Junk: a 'Mas...	Excerpt	03:41	12/30/2011
-	Richard Dawkins: Who Was the Fir...	Excerpt	04:28	10/15/2011
-	Multiverse Doppelgangers: Do Man...	Excerpt	02:22	10/07/2011
-	Gulf Pollution: It's Not Just th...	Excerpt	06:03	10/04/2011
-	Can You Juggle Your Way to a Sma...	Excerpt	02:01	09/28/2011
1 : 38	How 'Lucy' Got Her Name	Excerpt	04:05	08/05/2011
1 : 37	Your Genes: More Virus than Human	Excerpt	04:11	06/25/2011
1 : 37	The Virus as a Planetary Force	Excerpt	04:15	06/25/2011
-	DNA: The Living Record of Humani...	Excerpt	02:49	06/18/2011
-	How Can NASA Innovate?	Excerpt	03:13	06/04/2011
1 : 36	Why 'Freedom Fries' Never Stuck	Excerpt	03:26	04/07/2011

11 months ago

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Interesting and engaging.

11 months ago

The speaker was great he did not bring in religion. After hearing his lecture and reading the comments about religion I made the leap that god could be a virus. Think about it if a virus made the first double helix it is the maker of complex life and that would mean a virus facilitated the changes that made us possible. Our creator our origin could have been a virus.

11 months ago

Omg. And, we did not descend from any ape currently on the planet. We share common ancestors, if you go far enough back.

11 months ago

*Christian

11 months ago

Further, the fact that he discussed viruses that have moved between our species is NOT, by far, the extent of the evidence supporting evolution. And, bats are mammals. We are in the same biological class and we share far more similarities than you might think. I suggest you study evolution before you deny it. I was raised a Baptist Cristian. It didn't stop me.

11 months ago

Viruses are undeniably associated with biological evolution on a wide scale. This was clearly laid out. You can't just disassociate the two. If you don't believe in evolution, then that's your issue. Personally, I don't find it at all offensive to consider myself part of a species that developed from the great apes. Evolution is a beautiful thing.

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Zimmer is an engaging speaker and the subject was interesting, although I still don't agree that apes are part of the human "family", as he suggests. I was disappointed that he kept referring to this in his lecture. The lecture was supposed to be about viruses rather than evolution.

The fact that similar viruses are found in humans and apes doesn't prove that we're descendants. The same viruses were found in bats, but that also doesn't mean we are descended from bats.

I wish he would have stuck to the subject.

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