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Ep. 35 – Searching for the World’s Best Strawberries

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Read the article: How Driscoll’s Reinvented the Strawberry

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photo illustration by S. King

Further Reading

  • UC Davis Strawberry Breeding & Research
  • The First GMO Field Tests
  • We have no bananas today
  • Berried Treasure

Next week’s article: Hopepunk, explained: the storytelling trend that weaponizes optimism

Susanna business, science Leave a comment March 28, 2019June 9, 2019

Ep. 22 – What’s in a Color?

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Read the article: Treasures from the Color Archive

Further Reading

  • The Never-Ending Race To Concoct The Bluest Blue
  • In the Spotlight, Harvard’s Rothkos Don’t Shine
  • Forbes Pigment Database
  • Sand Mandalas
Susanna art, history, science Leave a comment September 17, 2018September 18, 2018

Ep. 21 – How Should We Diagnose Mental Illness?

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Read the article: All mental disorders are brain disorders… not.

Further Reading

  • IgNobel Prize in Neuroscience: The dead salmon study
  • Forecasts of genetic fate just got a lot more accurate
Susanna psychology, science Leave a comment August 31, 2018

Ep. 14 – Why Does Water Attract Bad Science?

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Read the article: A Compassionate Substance: How science and myth collide in water.

Further Reading

  • Polywater Wikipedia page
  • Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Levitating frog video
Susanna science, society Leave a comment June 15, 2018

Episode 10 – The Shoddy Statistics of Sports Research

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Read the article: How Shoddy Statistics Found A Home In Sports Research

Further Reading

  • The Open Science Foundation’s Reproducibility Project
  • The Children’s Physical Activity Research Group
Susanna science 1 Comment May 18, 2018May 18, 2018

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