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Normal Science Podcast is a monthly podcast from John Terbot, a biology graduate student, and Dan Beckett, a chemistry graduate student. Our goal is to pick a couple of interesting, open-access publications each month and discuss through what they did and why it’s cool/interesting. Find more at www.normalsciencepodcast.wordpress.com

Normal Science Podcast Normal Science Podcast

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Normal Science Podcast is a monthly podcast from John Terbot, a biology graduate student, and Dan Beckett, a chemistry graduate student. Our goal is to pick a couple of interesting, open-access publications each month and discuss through what they did and why it’s cool/interesting. Find more at www.normalsciencepodcast.wordpress.com

    Episode 2: Getting Wet with DNA and Cannibals

    Episode 2: Getting Wet with DNA and Cannibals

    It's our August 2017 episode and it's only a day late! In this episode, Dan and John discuss a paper looking at the chiral hydrogen-bonding of water to DNA and how seasonality effects cannibalism of damselfly larvae. In the discussion, John tries to remember something and finds a news article to prove he's not crazy which we link to below.

    References:
    doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.7b00100
    doi.org/10.1186/s12862-017-1010-3
    nature.com/news/2000/000622/full/news000622-10.html

    Music: “Flying Jellyfishes” by Kevin MacLeod

    • 1 hr 32 min

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