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b'(repeat) Your shower pipes are alive.\\xa0So are your sinks, books, and floorboards.\\xa0New studies of our homes are revealing just what species live there \\u2013 in the thousands, from bacteria to flies to millipedes.\\xa0Meanwhile, life keeps surprising us by popping up in other unexpected places: the deep biosphere houses the majority of the world\\u2019s bacteria and the Arctic tundra has kept worms frozen, but alive, for 40,000 years.\\nWe embrace the multitude of life living on us, in us, and \\u2013 as it turns out \\u2013 in every possible ecological niche.\\xa0Most of it is harmless, some is beneficial, and it\\u2019s all testament to the amazing diversity and adaptability of life.\\xa0In addition, the hardiest organisms suggest where we might find life beyond Earth.\\nGuests:\\n\\n\\nRob Dunn\\xa0\\u2013\\xa0Professor of applied ecology at North Carolina State University and at the Natural History Museum at the University of Copenhagen. Author of \\u201cNever Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live.\\u201d\\n\\n\\nLynn Rothschild\\xa0\\u2013\\xa0Astrobiologist and synthetic biologist at the NASA Ames Research Center.\\n\\n\\nKaren Lloyd\\xa0\\u2013 Environmental microbiologist and associate professor at the University of Tennessee.\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'