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What makes blueberries blue, and myth buster Adam Savage on science communication

What makes blueberries blue, and myth buster Adam Savage on science communication

FromScience Magazine Podcast


What makes blueberries blue, and myth buster Adam Savage on science communication

FromScience Magazine Podcast

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Length:
46 minutes
Released:
Feb 15, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Why squeezing a blueberry doesn’t get you blue juice, and a myth buster and a science editor walk into a bar
 
First up on the show this week, MythBusters’s Adam Savage chats with Science Editor-in-Chief Holden Thorp about the state of scholarly publishing, better ways to communicate science, plus a few myths Savage still wants to tackle.
 
Next on the show, making blueberries without blue pigments. Rox Middleton, a postdoctoral fellow at the Dresden University of Technology and honorary research associate at the University of Bristol, joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about how blueberries and other blue fruits owe their hue to a trick of the light caused by specialized wax on their surface.
 
In a sponsored segment from the Science/AAAS Custom Publishing Office, Erika Berg, director and senior editor of custom publishing, interviews professor Jim Wells about organoid therapies. This segment is sponsored by Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
 
This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy.
 
About the Science Podcast
 
Authors: Sarah Crespi; Holden Thorp
 
Episode page: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.z7ye2st
Released:
Feb 15, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

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