The Physics Behind Fusion's Biggest Problem
EP 20
·1:00:35

Krishna pick — the DNA story & the ethics of discovery

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1:00:35like bacteria. They made a full bacteria that incorporated a new amino acid into a protein. I thought that was absolutely insane. Unbelievable >> that they could do this. Unbelievable, you know. Um that was really >> that was that was that was it it like blew my mind when I was researching it. That was that was episode three. And then the rest of them are all about science history because I love science history. So we've got the DNA episode. I don't have to talk too much about that because that was just our last episode. Um, >> but people loved that episode. Watson's not the guy. >> Watson is not the guy. Um, turns out he was a racist piece of and um, but the human story is fascinating. You know,

1:01:15the way that there was the competition between England and Caltech and all that. I I just loved looking that up. The LIGO episode, which was episode 10. >> Yes, that was a great one. >> That was a great one. Um that little story about how the posttos were like running around you know just an hour before the actual signal came in and they were just like driving their jeeps >> along the along the instrument and then people were like just freaking out because they didn't know if it was a scop like they didn't know if it was a conspiracy or something. I I loved that.

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