This episode examines the dialectical and/or reciprocal relations between science and myth, as explored by an artist, a curator, and a molecular biologist.

From neural networks to the World Wide Web, connectivity abounds. Branching patterns of complex configurations transmit and store impulses of information in the brain's living data bank.

Invoking physics and mathematics as scientific influences for the revolution in art that took place in the early 20th century, our guests discuss the realities behind appearances, the fourth dimension in time and space and the nature of simultaneity.

In an age of bio-technology and bio-engineering, the divide between nature and culture is becoming increasingly osmotic. Archeology meets DNA analysis, genes are bought and sold and urbanization is looked at as an aspect of manipulating nature.

The teratoma, a monstrous form of cells has resurfaced, as an entity which could bridge the philosophical gap between religion and science. Jennifer Willet and Shawn Bailey discuss their work which centers around live tissue, meat and digital media.

Host Suzanne Anker and guests reconsider the virus as both a biological and cultural phenomenon. In its mutating form, new strains have been able to cross species boundaries, just as globalization has created permeable boundaries in geopolitics.

Genetic profiling can be as troubling as it can be helpful - but helpful to whom, exactly, and in what ways? Here Suzanne Anker and her guests examine the legal and social effects of expanding DNA databases.

Plastic surgery has reached epidemic proportions in the U.S. and Suzanne Anker gathers a crew of insiders to examine some of the aesthetic and social issues raised by transforming the body through augmentations, reductions and cosmetic procedures.

Laura Lindgren, Allan Ludwig and Pete Mauro join host Suzanne Anker for this discussion of representations of the mortal coil among the "formaldehyde photography set," on gravestones, and elsewhere.