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Mike and Molly from Jack Westin discusses anecdotes, advice, and ramblings on the premed years, the MCAT, and life beyond. Have new episodes delivered to you by subscribing.
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MCAT CARS: Moral Relativism vs. Moral Nihilism I Is Morality Relative? (opens the original)
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Witches, football, legal systems, grammar, motion in physics… what do any of these have to do with morality? Everything, if you're a philosopher trying to make the same argument five different ways. In this episode of the Jack Westin MCAT CARS Podcast, Hunter and Molly tackle a philosophy passage on moral relativism, a topic that might make some CARS students groan, but turns out to be a genuinely useful case study in a different skill: recognizing when a passage is repeating itself. This passag
MCAT Biology: Barriers, Neutrophils, Macrophages & Complement Explained I The Innate Immune System (opens the original)
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99% of the pathogens trying to infect you right now are stopped before you ever feel sick. You just never notice, because it's working. In this episode of the Jack Westin MCAT Podcast, Mike and Molly kick off their immune system series with the innate immune system, the fast, nonspecific defense network that handles nearly every infection before it ever becomes a "sickness." After spending the last two episodes on how viruses hijack our cells, this episode flips the perspective: how does the bod
MCAT CARS Passage Breakdown: Kennewick Man I Who Controls the Past? (opens the original)
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A 9,300-year-old skeleton. A magazine headline calling it an "invasion." A scientific debate that became a political battleground. How do you read a CARS passage where every paragraph is fighting over who gets to tell the story of the past? In this episode of the Jack Westin MCAT CARS Podcast, Hunter and Molly break down the Kennewick Man passage, a dense, multi-layered piece about archaeology, colonialism, Indigenous rights, and media sensationalism. This one is packed with long sentences, buri
MCAT Biology: HIV, Retroviruses & the Viral Life Cycle I How Viruses Hijack Your Cells (opens the original)
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A virus isn't even alive. It's just genetic material in a protein coat. So how does something that basic manage to take over an entire cell? In this episode of the Jack Westin MCAT Podcast, Mike and Molly tackle viruses, the topic their last two episodes on cellular trafficking were quietly building toward. Now that the mechanisms for moving things in and out of a cell are established, this episode shows exactly how viruses exploit those same pathways to infect, replicate, and spread, with a dee
MCAT CARS: Vindija Neanderthals Passage (opens the original)
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Were Neanderthals hunted to extinction, or did they simply become us? A special guest returns to help break down one of the most fascinating CARS passages yet. In this episode of the Jack Westin MCAT CARS Podcast, Molly is joined by a returning co-host, Jack Westin himself, for a passage on the Vindija Neanderthals. It's a passage built around a genuine scientific dichotomy: the "common picture" of Neanderthals as brutish and driven to extinction by modern humans, versus new archaeological and D
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