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  • 68. Cellular respiration
    2025/05/16

    This is Chapter 7 of my Bio for Health Sciences text book. I cover cellular respiration, including why it's important, the four stages of respiration, and finally a quick ending with fermentation.

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    1 時間 41 分
  • 67. Energy, Membranes, Transport, and Metabolism
    2025/04/16

    This is Chapter 6 of my bio for health sciences text book. In this chapter, I cover a variety of related topics including: The structure and function of cell membranes, cellular transport (osmosis, diffusion, facilitated diffusion, and active transport), Energy, Redox reactions, and enzymes.

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    2 時間 6 分
  • 66. Cells are the Basic Unit of Life
    2025/04/11

    This is Chapter 5 of my Bio for Health Sciences text book. It covers the similarities of all cells due to common ancestry, introduces prokaryotic diversity, eukaryotic diversity, the endomembrane system, and the cytoskeleton.

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    1 時間 41 分
  • 65. The Chemistry of Life
    2025/04/08

    This podcast is Chapter 4 of my book Biology for Health Sciences. Life is based on chemistry and it helps to know a little to help us in our everyday lives, like why some fats are good while others are bad or why glucose and fructose are both real sugar. In this chapter, I cover metabolism, the four macromolecules (carbohydrates, proteins, nucleic acids, and lipids) and other vitamins and organic molecules

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    1 時間 40 分
  • 64. The Ingredients of Life
    2025/04/06

    This podcast is the 3rd chapter of my text book, Biology for Health Sciences. I cover the structure of atoms, the origins of the elements, chemical bonding, why carbon is the element of life, water, Ph, and the why this matters in our daily lives.

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    1 時間 33 分
  • 63. The Gray Areas of Life: Misconceptions and Discoveries
    2025/02/27

    Tom unpacks the complex definitions of life and challenges common misconceptions about living organisms, from mules and parasites to viruses. Listeners gain insights into the key characteristics that define life while exploring philosophical questions surrounding it.



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    31 分
  • 62. Themes in Science: From Emergent Properties to Evolution
    2024/10/15

    This is Chapter 2 of my textbook, Biology for Health Sciences, a college freshman course for students entering nursing, nutrition, exercise science, environmental science, or other careers in the health field. Topics include; what is life, the hierarchy of life, emergent properties, ecology, and evolution

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    1 時間 22 分
  • 61. A Biologists Looks at 50: Reflections from 30 years of doing science
    2024/04/05

    A look back on my life in science, birds, fish, invasive species, streams, dams, and climate change and sleeping lizards.

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    1 時間 3 分