{"id":115763,"date":"2020-11-12T02:42:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T10:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/episode-24-how-oxygen-transformed-our-planet-earth"},"modified":"2020-11-12T02:42:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T10:42:33","slug":"episode-24-how-oxygen-transformed-our-planet-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/episode-24-how-oxygen-transformed-our-planet-earth","title":{"rendered":"Episode 24 \u2014 How Oxygen Transformed Our Planet Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"420\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/eqpvu-f20e67?mix=1&vjs=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Earth\u2019s earliest beginnings from magma oceans to continents with elephants and oceans with Orcas can arguably be traced to the rise of Oxygen. That\u2019s the topic of this week\u2019s episode. Please have a listen.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>From Pachyderms to Cetaceans, the largest mammals on Earth would arguably never have evolved to their gargantuan sizes without the third most abundant element in the Cosmos \u2014 Oxygen. Of course, life, even photosynthesis is possible without Oxygen, but for the cosmos to evolve the big-headed space aliens of our sci-fi dreams will likely take Oxygen \u2014 the most efficient energy carrier in the periodic table. How Oxygen became dominant on our own planet is the focus of today\u2019s episode with guest Timothy Lyons, a biogeochemist at the University of California, Riverside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth\u2019s earliest beginnings from magma oceans to continents with elephants and oceans with Orcas can arguably be traced to the rise of Oxygen. That\u2019s the topic of this week\u2019s episode. Please have a listen. From Pachyderms to Cetaceans, the largest mammals on Earth would arguably never have evolved to their gargantuan sizes without the third [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}