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Extremophiles!

Extremophiles!

FromPetri Dish


Extremophiles!

FromPetri Dish

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Length:
57 minutes
Released:
Oct 7, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Our animal episodes seem popular, so episode 9 is a return to silly beasties -- in this case Sean and Nathan are talking about organisms that like to live in EXTREME environments, organisms called extremophiles.Sean and Nathan discuss the plural of octopus, with Sean starting out wrong with octopi (wrong!), Nathan offering octopussies (hmm) then switching to octopuses (best accepted answer). Sean tosses in octopodes, which is the correct plural form based on the etymology, but pretty much no one says it.Sean mentions at one point that at some depths amphipods would normally have their exoskeletons dissolve, but H. gigas is an amphipod that secretes an aluminum hydroxide gel over their exoskeleton to protect it. Which is metal. References:https://www.pnas.org/content/111/12/4461https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967063716300656?via%3Dihubhttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0206710https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/03/these-intrepid-crickets-hawaii-s-lava-home-sweet-homehttps://www.nature.com/articles/310225a0.pdfhttps://www.pnas.org/content/104/36/14401.shorthttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4187170/https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/06/space-station-mold-survives-200-times-radiation-dose-would-kill-human
Released:
Oct 7, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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Profane, insane, and 100% primo science, Petri Dish is a no-BS podcast that explores the wildest subjects in modern science with clarity and evil joy. Hosted by Sean Allen, a Nanoparticle/Immunology Researcher, and Nathan Allen, his "screenwriter" brother, Petri Dish fuses hard science with a freewheeling and madcap conversational style. Cannabinoids, Plague, Cats, the dreaded Candiru, and the even more dreaded Covid-19: all these and more are dissected with intellect and irreverence, dropping every week. So reject ignorance. Join the Scientific Revolution. Join Petri Dish.