Ep 3: Science... sort of - Going to the Dark Side

Science... sort of

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4.8 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2009

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Tales of animals using sinister techniques to hunt down prey, alien human ancestors with multiple words for murder, boys being sent to bed without their supper, and matter (the dark kind).

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to Science Sort of.
0:16.0	All right. Hello, welcome to Science Sort of.
0:18.8	I'm Patrick. He's Ryan.
0:21.7	Hello.
0:22.5	And he's Justin. Hello.
0:24.9	And we're the Paleo Pals. The purpose of our show is to discuss things that are science, things that are sort of science, and things that wish they were science.
0:33.3	The theme of this week is going to the dark side. Yeah, so the article I picked for this week is, I haven't seen so much about it in the popular press.
0:43.4	Actually, I can't think of much.
0:45.8	But it's come out in the last few weeks in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
0:51.2	which is a pretty top-notch journal.
0:53.9	And it's by Brian G. Frye at all.
0:58.3	And it's talking about the possibility of venom in Komodo Dragon.
1:03.3	Well, actually, he's pretty sure that they have venom in Komodo dragons, but it may or may not
1:06.9	be important to them.
1:08.5	So the popular wisdom is that Komoto dragons do not have venom, rather they have very strong
1:13.6	bacteria that causes massive infection if you get bitten by them?
1:17.8	Yeah, basically.
1:18.9	Did you die either from bleeding to death or you get this horrible infection?
1:22.9	He's saying that it's not actually bacteria, it's actually a venom that they produce.
1:28.5	Right, so the bacteria, so they, they've
1:31.1	tested, they've swab different Komodo dragons.
1:33.8	That's a fun job.
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