Podcasts
A seven-episode exploration of science’s quest to understand how we get old, and how we might live longer. The 2025 season of “The World As You’ll Know It,” created by Audacy and Aventine.
A 2017 production based on talks in New York before a live audience, in which Zimmer interviewed biologists and philosophers about the nature of life itself.
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Meet the Microbiologist
Zimmer’s first foray into podcasts took place way back between 2009 and 2011, when he interviewed scientists studying viruses, bacteria, and other microbes. You can still find the episodes floating around the Internet. Here is an interview with Michael Worobey about the origin of HIV, part of which later was rebroadcast on Radiolab.
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Podcast Appearances
Zimmer has appeared on many podcasts over the years. Here is a selection:
The Daily, from the New York Times
We Underestimated the Neanderthal
Is the Future of Medicine Hidden in Ancient DNA?
Why Omicron Is Counterintuitive
What to Expect from the Next Phase of the Pandemic
A Pandemic Update: The Variant and The Vaccine Rollout
A Kids’ Guide to the Coronavirus
The Ethics of Genetically Engineering Babies
Radiolab
Every Day Is Ignaz Semmelweis Day
How Do You Put a Price Tag on Nature?
The Cell That Started A Pandemic