#1178 Karen Lloyd - Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of the Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Karen Lloyd. She is the Wrigley chair in environmental studies and professor of earth sciences at the University of Southern California. And today we're talking about her book, Intraterrestrials Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth.
So Dr. Lloyd, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you one. Thanks for having me. So what are intraterrestrials?
It's not a very commonly used term, but it's I'm using it to talk about anything that's alive inside Earth. It turns out that it's a kind of a different community than what we experience in our daily lives, different enough that it kind of needs its own name. I didn't come up with that name, but a couple other scientists did, but I find it useful. And are these all unicellular organisms or can some of them be multicellular? For the most part, these are unicellular organisms, so tiny little single-celled microbes, but of course they interact with each other and they form
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