1544 Matt Kaplan + News & Clips

1544 Matt Kaplan + News & Clips

Author: pete dominick February 27, 2026 Duration: 1:09:05

My conversation with Matt Kaplan starts at minutes 31 mins in to today's show after headlines and clips

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Matt Kaplan is a science correspondent at The Economist where he has written about everything from paleontology and parasites to virology and viticulture over the course of two decades. His writing has also appeared in National GeographicNew Scientist, Nature, and The New York Times. He is the author of The Science of Monsters and Science of the Magical, and co-author of David Attenborough's First Life: A Journey Through Time. He completed a thesis in Paleontology at Berkeley, and one in science journalism at Imperial College, London. In 2014 he was awarded a Knight Fellowship to study at MIT and Harvard. Born in California, he lives in England.

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