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SIO509: What Project Hail Mary Gets Right (And Very Wrong...) About Biology

Podcast: Serious Inquiries Only
Published: Apr 4, 2026
Duration seconds: 3370
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Everyone's favorite biologist and dinosaur enthusiast Dr. Eric Jaffe is back! Project Hail Mary is a very fun, and quite good, sciency movie that is cleaning up at the box office right now. You should see it! Eric is going to take us through the biology of the movie (and book) and what it gets right, and what it gets quite wrong.