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

We Underestimated the Neanderthal

Whales Have An Alphabet

Is the Future of Medicine Hidden in Ancient DNA?

Why Omicron Is Counterintuitive

The Rise of Delta

What to Expect from the Next Phase of the Pandemic

A Pandemic Update: The Variant and The Vaccine Rollout

A Vaccine Breakthrough

A Kids’ Guide to the Coronavirus

The Ethics of Genetically Engineering Babies

Radiolab

The Age of Aquaticus

Revenge of the Miasma

Every Day Is Ignaz Semmelweis Day

How Do You Put a Price Tag on Nature?

Creation Translation

Sleepless in South Sudan

The Cell That Started A Pandemic

In Defense of Cheats