Best Coarse Podcasts (2024)

Gaby and Jerry discuss these things with varying amounts of vigor: (00:00:00) Intro (00:02:27) fluid dates (00:05:27) I Burned a CD for You (00:08:00) judging people by their taste in games (00:17:33) Did You Know (00:31:20) ruminations on what a "real gamer" is To Join Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bgsnobs Follow/join us at: Board Game Snob…

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Episode 17 - Caroline Lynn Kamerlin: Deep interdisciplinarity, enzyme promiscuity, and science in society 40:30

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Send us a Text Message. In episode seventeen, Caroline Lynn Kamerlin talks about the art of asking bold and impactful scientific questions, as well as how to engage in truly interdisciplinary research, something she sees as a consequence of her formal background in natural philosophy. We talk about the emerging concepts around enzyme promiscuity, h…

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Talking Finances 45:57

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In this episode, I talk to Erika Wasserman, Your Financial Therapist, to explore the relationship between money and emotions. Erika shares her journey from learning finances from her father to a dynamic career that included significant life transitions, such as marriage, children, divorce, and inheriting assets. Through these experiences, Erika dee…

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Episode 316: Lewis and Clark: The Expedition 48:06

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The Snobs discuss: (00:00:00) Intro Banter (00:13:02) "Did You Know" about Willie the Hero Parrot (00:23:45) Defining a "HERO" (00:28:45) Lewis and Clark: The Expedition discussion with many tangents (00:34:04) Lewis and Clark: The Expedition actual discussion...kind of To Join Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bgsnobs Follow/join us at: Board G…

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Episode 315: Card Drafting, Cryo and Calligraphy 47:38

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Bubba fills in for Jerry and he and Gaby talk about these things: (00:00:00) Bubba returns and discusses his look into game design (00:24:45) Cryo revisited (00:37:07) August 14 is World Lizard/World Calligraphy/ National Tattoo Removal Day To Join Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bgsnobs Follow/join us at: Board Game Snobs Discord https://www.…

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Episode 314: Beer Teats and Track Meets 41:33

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The Snobs discuss Valhalla beer goats, the Olympics, emails, simulation and abstraction in games and more. Enjoy! To Join Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bgsnobs Follow/join us at: Board Game Snobs Discord https://www.instagram.com/boardgamesnobs/ Board Game Snobs Facebook Group For merch: https://sirmeeple.com/collections/board-game-snobs For…

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Episode 313: Dan "I Made You a Mixtape" Hughes 1:08:51

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Coming soon to Kickstarter, follow the launch of I Made You a Mixtape, which Dan and Mike Dilisio created together, here-https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cabbagedan/i-made-you-a-mixtape (00:00:00) Intro (00:01:17) a beautiful beard (00:04:08) Olympic Fever (00:17:33) Super-Hero Catch Phrases (00:24:56) I Made You a Mixtape Spotify Playlists (00…

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EP: 017 "F.I.R.E for Dummies" w/ Author Jackie Cummings Koski 1:04:31

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On this episode I talk to the author of the new book "F.I.R.E for Dummies", Jackie Cummings Koski, CFP®️. Jackie's road to an early retirement in her forties began with a wake-up call during her divorce. She walks us through her journey from conquering her fear of the stock market by joining an investment club, educating herself on the ins and outs…

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Episode 312: Sky Team: Prepare for Landing 47:02

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What is the Spiel des Jahres Winner Alex? The Snobs rant, rave, review, mention in passing and briefly discuss these things: (00:00:00) Intro (00:00:20) Did You Know? (00:01:42) pronouncing words in the native dialect (00:03:48) Jerry going to Dice Tower Retreat (00:04:25) the Snobs defunct website (00:07:45) Jerry's a social media submarine (00:10…

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Episode 311: It's Coarse and Rough and Irritating and it Gets Everywhere 42:04

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What is Sand for 100 Alex? The Snobs rant, rave, review, mention in passing and briefly discuss these things: (00:00:00) Intro (00:00:44) Shame Con (00:01:12) giving up on COIN Games (00:07:35) what constitutes "chemistry" between people (00:18:35) and back to Sand discussion (00:20:40) Gaby eats a salad in a comically large bowl (00:22:00) stirrin…

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Episode 16½ - End-of-season 2 commentary 19:23

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Send us a Text Message.By Miłosz Wieczór

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Episode 310: Emails, Comments, Acolytes, Oh My! 1:01:45

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The Snobs rant, rave, review, mention in passing and briefly discuss these things: (00:04:45) the Observer Effect (00:05:40) Gaby's Pickleball injuries (00:13:25) email from The Pharmacist (00:16:45) meditating (00:19:41) Mike "and the Mechanics" Parson's email (00:22:00) Evan's comment on Spotify (00:23:45) Calm Jerry (00:26:05) emails and comment…

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Episode 16 - Janusz Bujnicki: Structural modeling, RNA modifications, and advising policy-makers on science 28:51

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Send us a Text Message. In the sixteenth episode, Janusz Bujnicki tells me about his early switch to bioinformatics, a stroke of serendipity that defined his future career, and how he later managed to reincorporate both biophysics and experimental biology into his research agenda. We talk about the current state of the field of RNA structural predi…

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Episode 309: The White Castle, REX and Battle Mechanisms 40:23

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The Snobs rant, rave, review, mention in passing and briefly discuss these things: (00:00:00) Intro (00:02:00) The White Castle https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/371942/the-white-castle (00:13:30) Red Cathedral Solo https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/227224/the-red-cathedral (00:16:36) Total Wine and More (00:21:48) Rex: Final Days of an Empire …

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Episode 15 - Paulo CT Souza: Developing a universal coarse-grained force field, and approaching the science of molecular complexity 26:41

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Send us a Text Message. In the fifteenth episode, Paulo Souza and I discuss the challenges inherent in managing a project of such a scope, and the philosophy behind the systematic way in which Martini is continuously improved and reparameterized. Paulo describes how a user-centric approach helps refine and troubleshoot the model through its widesca…

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Episode 308: Shadows Over Camelot, Skyrise and Wellbutrin 56:44

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The Snobs rant, rave, review, mention in passing and briefly discuss these things: (00:00:00) Intro (00:02:24) Shadows Over Camelot-https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/15062/shadows-over-camelot (00:04:40) can you raise one eyebrow (00:08:05) listener emails (00:20:45) Skyrise-https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/298231/skyrise (00:26:05) table pres…

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Episode 14 - Syma Khalid: New ways to fight bacteria, the bacterial envelope, and kindness & openness in academia 23:00

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Send us a Text Message. In the fourteenth episode, Syma Khalid and I talk about the challenges we're faced with when trying to understand the environment of the bacterial cell envelope, and the outer membrane in particular. We discuss how the lessons taken from the computational study of these structures can inform the design of future antibacteria…

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Episode 307: Die Macher, Path of Civilization and Cysmic Designer Jason Blake 1:34:37

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The Snobs rant, rave, review, mention in passing and briefly discuss these things: (00:00:00) Intro (00:02:20) Hostess Ding Dongs (00:04:48) Die Macher-https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1/die-macher (00:14:50) Gaia Project-https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/220308/gaia-project (00:16:11) the meaning of Gaia (00:17:25) Square on Sale-https://boar…

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Episode 13 - Daniel Zuckerman: Trajectory ensembles, writing books, and learning biology through physics 29:45

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Send us a Text Message. In the thirteenth episode, Daniel Zuckerman and I talk about textbooks on statistical biophysics and a physics-based vision of biology, a few of which he himself authored. Daniel reveals that his passion for clarity in writing comes from his early humanities background, and makes a case for how well-thought and physically mo…

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Episode 306: Tom Vasel 1:19:52

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The Snobs and Mr Vasel, Tom Vasel, rave, review, mention in passing and briefly discuss these things: uteruses on trains, what size shirt, what is best beverage, what question is Tom tired of hearing, best and worst game Tom has played in 2024 thus far, dealing with controversy, Mixtape games, Armageddon versus Deep Impact, the IMDB Game and more. …

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Episode 12 - Vlad Cojocaru: Simulating transcriptional regulation, returning to our home countries, and the scales of the genome 27:12

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Send us a Text Message. In the twelfth episode, Vlad Cojocaru and I discuss how the simulation field can integrate further layers of complexity in modeling transcription control and genome organization in humans. Vlad shares his insights on the computational biology of transcription factors, including DNA-mediated allostery and pioneer transcriptio…

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Episode 305: Living in the Moment at BGG Spring 53:13

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The Snobs are all here for better or worse (Gaby was a bit under the weather) and Bruno joins in as they discuss the first couple of days at BGG Spring 2024 and whether or not documenting certain moments in life is helpful or takes away from the moment. Enjoy!! To Join Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bgsnobs Follow/join us at: Board Game Snobs…

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CLASSIC THROWBACK Episode 23: Game of Thrones Second Edition 59:06

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The One with the animal groupings. The Snobs highlight Jerry's favorite game, Game of Thrones Second Edition. Also discussed, High Society and Modern Art. And Jerry gets obsessed with groupings of animals. Enjoy! To Join Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bgsnobs Follow/join us at: Board Game Snobs Discord https://www.instagram.com/boardgamesnobs…

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Episode 11 - Justin Lemkul: Providing technical help online, sharing expertise, and polarization in nucleic acids 29:38

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Send us a Text Message. In the eleventh episode, Justin Lemkul and I talk about the motivations and challenges behind providing technical help on online forums and mailing lists. Justin shares his story of becoming a prolific technical advisor for the Gromacs community, which evolves into a discussion about automatability, the role of expertise in …

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Episode 304: Jerry's Alive for BGG Spring 44:29

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The Snobs engage in chit chat, foolishness, tomfoolery, shenanigans, and looking forward to BGG Spring. Enjoy!! To Join Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bgsnobs Follow/join us at: Board Game Snobs Discord https://www.instagram.com/boardgamesnobs/ Board Game Snobs Facebook Group For merch: https://sirmeeple.com/collections/board-game-snobs For q…

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Beyond Derogation and Offense: Coarseness 49:41

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A talk given by Bianca Cepollaro at the Moral Sciences Club on 21st May 2024By Cambridge University

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Episode 10 - Ariane Nunes-Alves: Kinetics in drug design, molecular crowding, and the social life of a PI 19:13

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Send us a Text Message. In the tenth episode, Ariane Nunes-Alves and I talk about a kinetics-centric view of drug design, making the case that modeling kinetics in atomistic simulation is an important frontier that, despite clear biomedical relevance, is rarely explicitly addressed either in model parameterization or with the latest AI methods. We …

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A Defence of Kantian Epistemic Autonomy 38:02

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A talk given by Alix Cohen at the Moral Sciences Club on 14th May 2024By Cambridge University

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Episode 303: Snowblind Race for the Pole 57:26

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The Snobs rant, rave, review, mention in passing and briefly discuss these things: (00:00:00) Intro (00:05:15) Gaby discusses Hubs Life on Instagram (00:34:05) Snowblind discussion Snowblind Race for the Pole BGG Link 30–60 MinPlaying Time Age: 10+ DesignerSimon McGregor ArtistRob van Zyl PublisherPleasant Company Games To Join Our Patreon: https:/…

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Episode 9 - Michele Vendruscolo: Preventing protein misfolding, fostering public engagement of scientists, and AI tools in drug design 31:21

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Send us a Text Message. In the ninth episode, Michele Vendruscolo and I discuss the current state of research on misfolding diseases, typically associated with excessive protein aggregation and formation of insoluble amyloids. Michele presents an optimistic perspective in which the convergence of recent clinical and software developments opens up n…

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Episode 302: Sexy Penguins Fart in the Oceans 47:25

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The Snobs rant, rave, review, mention in passing and briefly discuss these things: (00:00:00) Intro (00:04:00) What's the deal with haunting (00:07:26) Linkin Park (00:10:07) Board Game Geek Podcast Nominations (00:11:07) Gaby is frustrated the Snobs Podcast is not updating on BGG (00:14:07) The Artful Dodger (00:15:04) Jerry's wife watches The Bat…

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What is a hobby? 37:58

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A talk given by Clare Chambers at the Moral Sciences Club on 30th April 2024By Cambridge University

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Episode 301: Star Trekking Through a Den of Wolves 49:16

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The Snobs rant, rave, review, mention in passing and briefly discuss these things: 00:03:25 Jerry's blessing in case he passes 00:05:16 Gaby's shirt gets hate 00:06:30 Why Enrique is wearing slaves 00:09:15 What do you want to be buried in 00:10:57 Fan Expo and meeting celebrities 00:15:02 Colm Meaney 00:22:35 Enrique is watching ST: DS9 00:30:20 G…

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Episode 300 With Sporadically Board and We're Not Wizards 1:49:05

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Episode 300: In this fantabulous blowout extravaganza the Snobs celebrate this tremendous milestone with pod friends Dan Hughes, Mike Dilisio and Richard Simpson. Bad games are played and plagiarized, insults are thrown about without abandon, wild chit chat occurs, some level headed discussions are had and laughs are relatively frequent. ENJOY!! To…

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The Episode Before Three Hundred 50:43

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Episode 299: Nonsense, nonsense, plans for BGG Spring and more nonsense. Enjoy! To Join Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bgsnobs Follow/join us at: Board Game Snobs Discord https://www.instagram.com/boardgamesnobs/ Board Game Snobs Facebook Group For merch: https://sirmeeple.com/collections/board-game-snobs For questions, comments or general ad…

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Episode 8½ - My commentary: Wrapping up the first season 20:15

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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, I'm attempting to string together the most common threads brought up by my guests in the first eight interviews on the podcast. Reflecting on these conversations, I'm suggesting some grand challenges for the field in the years to come.By Miłosz Wieczór

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Episode 8 - Rossen Apostolov: Managing scientific collaboration, the biggest project of European biophysics, and seeding schools of thought 27:13

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Send us a Text Message. In the eight episode, Rossen Apostolov and I depart from the standard format to talk about the core concepts behind BioExcel, the European Center of Excellence for computational biology. We discuss their main objectives and challenges, from working with code to organizing schools and webinars, talk about the challenges of su…

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The Path of Totality and Sky Team 41:18

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Episode 298: Eclipses, tomatoes, pork and games. Pork’n’games, Resist, SOS Titanic, Sky Team, inner monologue and mental pictures and more. Enjoy!! Follow/join us at: Board Game Snobs Discord https://www.instagram.com/boardgamesnobs/ Board Game Snobs Facebook Group To Join Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bgsnobs For merch: https://sirmeeple.co…

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Episode 7 - Aleksei Aksimentiev: Nanobiotechnology, the importance of mentoring, and engineering serendipity 37:38

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Send us a Text Message. In the seventh episode, Aleksei Aksimentiev and I delve into the intersection of physics, biology, and nanotechnology, exploring the innovative world of nanopores and biomolecular sequencing. Aleksei shares his journey from particle physics in Ukraine to leading-edge research in the US, and underscores how on the unpredictab…

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Compelling Versus Fun Versus Enjoyment and Pluto 55:01

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The Snobs were tired so they let the soon to be overlord AI do the description once again despite them swearing off AI descriptions and also chapter markers: Episode 297: Jerry and Gaby from the Board Game Snobs Podcast share a lively conversation ranging from broken microphones to kangaroos and banned Peppa Pig episodes. The discussion meanders to…

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Episode 6 - Giulia Palermo: Reimagining scientific creativity, the RNA revolution, and truly multiscale systems 24:24

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Send us a Text Message. In the sixth episode, Giulia Palermo and I discuss the challenges of studying truly multiscale biomolecular systems, such as the CRISPR/Cas9 complex she famously got involved with. While such problems can take us way out of our comfort zones, they also provide us with clear pathways to innovative and transformative science, …

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Recon-Chile-ations 49:39

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Episode 296: The Snobs rant, rave, review, mention in passing and briefly discuss these things: (00:00:00) Ben's Intro (00:00:44) Sucking in while drinking and Motherland Vs Fatherland (00:06:40) Beard Talk (00:08:18) "Did You Knows" About Chile (00:13:00) Apologies Are Made (00:43:22) Everything Butt Games (00:48:48) Ben's Outro and a Drop Dump Fo…

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Episode 5 - Paul Robustelli: The dissolving barrier between industry and academia, embracing our artistic side, and new models of funding 30:04

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Send us a Text Message. In the fifth episode, Paul Robustelli and I discuss how the once very sharp boundary between academia and industry has been becoming increasingly porous, and what implications it will have for future careers in science. Paul shares his experiences and observations about the competing models of funding scientific research, an…

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BONUS EPISODE Mini Pod Sesh 10: Damsel Starring Millie Bobby Brown 45:15

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***SPOILERS*** Gaby and Sharde discuss the Netflix hit Damsel. Did they like it? Can MBB be any one other than Eleven? These questions and more discussed this episode, enjoy!! Follow/join us at: Board Game Snobs Discord https://www.instagram.com/boardgamesnobs/ Board Game Snobs Facebook Group To Join Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bgsnobs For…