Octopus Camouflage, Orcas vs. Sharks, Civet Coffee & Sub-Diffraction Telescope Tech
EP 16
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1:14:43that's this was really cool. We covered uh this was a super episode. We hit four stories. >> Yep. >> Uh I don't think we're going to hit two hours this episode. We we went through it quick. We started with UCSD. We're mass-producing camouflage from octopus octopi. >> Yeah. >> Uh this was out of UCSD. By hijacking bacteria, >> by hijacking the factory, the biosynthesis, we're now telling these organisms, you got to go through the factory to make what we want before you can make what you want. >> Which is crazy. >> Crazy. >> We This was not This is not an ethics podcast. [laughter] >> Um that was a nature biotechnology. Our second story was about these new hunting techniques and orcas. um both out of CSU Madre Bay and the Protex Conversion

1:15:24Pelagasia Associ AC that was in frontiers of marine science. That was a cool story because a lot of news there's been a lot of news about the yachts being crushed by all of the all the orcas but understanding culture >> might not be specific to human beings. There's this non >> you know this cross pod communication process happening. Our third story was about civot [ __ ] coffee and nature nature scientific reports out of the University of Catala. Um that was >> that was hilarious. That was fun. I'm never buying $80 coffee. I barely buy $9 coffee, which is what it is now in LA. >> And we ended with our second UC story of the day out of UCLA. Uh we are now able

1:16:07to take our telescopes and see more and deeper into the universe in a way we have not before. The imagery difference that we showed was >> was crazy. Yeah, because it's it's like obviously you don't have to be someone who knows. You can look at one and look in the other be like that, >> oh wow, that's crazy. >> That's better. >> Yeah, that's really far away and okay, we can see it that well. >> I I know when I'm trying to zoom in on my iPhone and I see all the Samsung Galaxy commercials about how you can go zoom into a skyscraper. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Um, fantastic episode as always. We appreciate you guys joining us. Please, if you've made it this far, there's very few of you, but if you have made it this far, I want you to comment either Civot

1:16:49uh Wagwan or we love you Krishna in the comments so we know you've made it this far. Please subscribe, share it with a friend. We're trying to really push science. The shutdown is over. Yes. >> Which might mean we'll get some scientific funding back in the in the mix. >> We still need to do more. >> We cannot fall behind. always >> um I'm joined as always by my co-host and our resident PhD Krishna Chowy. My name is Lester Nar. This [music] is from first principles. We'll see you guys next week. [music]

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