Podcasts

Carl Zimmer has over 15 years of experience in the world of podcasting. In addition to being interviewed on shows including the Next Big Idea and This American Life, Zimmer has helped develop episodes of Radiolab, The Daily, and a number of other shows. Zimmer has also hosted and produced multi-episode podcasts.

The Future of Aging

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.

What is Life?

A 2017 production based on a series of live events in which Zimmer talked to biologists and philosophers about the nature of life itself.

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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

Whales Have An Alphabet (The Daily)

Is the Future of Medicine Hidden in Ancient DNA? (The Daily)

Why Omicron Is Counterintuitive (The Daily)

The Rise of Delta (The Daily)

What to Expect from the Next Phase of the Pandemic (The Daily)

A Pandemic Update: The Variant and The Vaccine Rollout (The Daily)

A Vaccine Breakthrough (The Daily)

A Kids’ Guide to the Coronavirus (The Daily)

The Ethics of Genetically Engineering Babies (The Daily)

Radiolab

The Age of Aquaticus (Radiolab)

Revenge of the Miasma (Radiolab)

Every Day Is Ignaz Semmelweis Day (Radiolab)

CRISPR (Radiolab)

Guts (Radiolab)

Shrink (Radiolab)

How Do You Put a Price Tag on Nature? (Radiolab)

Creation Translation (Radiolab)

Speed (Radiolab)

Black Box (Radiolab)

Sleepless in South Sudan (Radiolab)

The Cell That Started A Pandemic (Radiolab)

The Good Show (Radiolab)

Stochasticity (Radiolab)

In Defense of Cheats (Radiolab)

Parasites (Radiolab)