unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc | 8 June 2022 | 0h 56m | Listen Later 
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Interview with Martin Blaser about his book Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues. Discusses the overuse of antibiotics; their role in a whole new set of ailments, most notably obesity; how the antibiotic marketplace is broken; the variability among prescribers; and the role of antibiotics in livestock.
Tag: Microbiome
Leeuwenhoek: the Fabric Seller Who Discovered Bacteria
The Forum | 18 July 2019 | 0h 39m | Listen Later | iTunes
Tells the story of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek who was the first to observe bacteria and other microscopic lifeforms that couldn’t be seen by the naked eye. He is now regarded as the father of microbiology and yet he had neither scientific training nor university education, and spent his life first as a linen merchant and then a civil servant in a small Dutch city.
Ed Yong – I Contain Multitudes
The Monocle Weekly | 20 September 2017 | 0h 14m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Ed Yong, author of I Contain Multitudes, which nicely backgrounds the book and its ideas about the ecosystem of microorganisms that inhabit us and the world around.
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