S5.29 “Updating your immune system”
Jason Pargin Reviews Pantheon
“The best show that nobody knows about now that everybody knows about Severance”, Pantheon was an adult animated science fiction series based on short stories by Ken Liu.
It ran for 2 seasons in 2022-23 and is currently (2025) on Netflix.
Exadelic by Jon Evans
When an unconventional offshoot of the US military trains an artificial intelligence in the dark arts that humanity calls "black magic," it learns how to hack the fabric of reality itself. It can teleport matter. It can confer immunity to bullets. And it decides that obscure Silicon Valley middle manager Adrian Ross is the primary threat to its existence.
Here's What RFK Jr. Got Wrong About H5N1 Bird Flu
"This is Hollywood science, not real science," one expert said.
Arsenal v Real Madrid... in 2006
As a Brit, Dr. Bill Hanage marks some memories by where his favorite footie team was at the time. Which happens to be where they are this year too.
Could Arctic zombie viruses in Siberia spark terrifying new pandemic?
Threat of outbreak from microbes trapped in permafrost for millennia raised by increased Siberian shipping activity
by Robin McKie, Science Editor
Bill:
It's like Jurassic park. It's like the velociraptors the testing the handles. They're figuring out how to open the doors. We want to be watching it very carefully to make sure that we are prepared if and when anything really bad happens.
The Family by Egon Schiele
One of the final works by Schiele before he died of “Spanish flu” in 1918.
It depicts the artist and his wife, had not yet given birth, and was 6 months pregnant when she died of the flu a few days before him.
what doesn't kill you mutates and tries again
There's no good result for this that isn't merch, but it is reasonably similar to the image Bill held up during the podcast.
(He also had a Live Lab Love sign.)
In an ideal world, we would have evidence-based policy making, but what we have at the moment is policy-based evidence making.