Master of What?

Master of What?

By Andrew Guest and David BreaultScienceSocial SciencesEducationNature
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Master of What? episodes

  • Master of What - Tree of Life

    Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species, or so goes the song anyway. Are viruses alive? How many million dollar movie ideas will we come up with before we make it big in Hollywood? It's an episode about the Tree of Life, academic conspiracy societies, Point Break, and somehow Andrew manages to mention Star Trek again. 

    50 min
  • Master of What - Containment

    Are ideologies contagious? How many different words are there for taking over a country? Has David ever seen a movie that isn't related to nature? Its the episode where the USA and the USSR are geopolitical frenemies.

    1 hr 1 min
  • Master of What - Keystone Species

    What stone is the most important part of an arch? Is there really always a bigger fish? Are wolves secretly the good guys? In this episode David explains Keystone, Flagship, Sentinel, and Indicator Species, while Andrew manages to reference three different Sci-fi movies.

    42 min
  • Master of What - Security Theater

    Andrew tells David all about security theater and the real reason you have to take off your shoes at the airport. Really its an episode about a drone strikes, the TSA, and Andrew's fidget spinner. 

    1 hr

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David and Andrew are two Masters in their respective academic fields of Biology and Political Science. They spend 40(ish) minutes a week teaching each other about topics from DNA to dictatorships, or…