From the Archives: Where Does Mold Come From?

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This episode originally aired on 4/3/2020. New episodes coming soon.

Learn about the shocking prevalence of torture scenes in movies; why durian, the world’s smelliest fruit, smells so bad; and where mold comes from.

Torture is prevalent and effective in movies (but not in real life) by Kelsey Donk

Torture Prevalent, Effective in Popular Movies, Study Finds – University of Alabama News | The University of Alabama. (2020). Ua.Edu. https://www.ua.edu/news/2020/01/torture-prevalent-effective-in-popular-movies-study-finds/
Delehanty, C., & Kearns, E. (2019). Wait, There’s Torture in Zootopia?: Examining the Prevalence of Torture in Popular Movies. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3342908

Scientists discovered why durian is the world's smelliest fruit by Kelsey Donk

A Love Letter to a Smelly Fruit. (2013, December 3). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/travel/a-love-letter-to-a-smelly-fruit.html
Discovering what makes durian stink. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-02/lfla-dwm022820.php
Identification of an Important Odorant Precursor in Durian: First Evidence of Ethionine in Plants. (2019). Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jafc.9b07065
Maninang, J. S., Lizada, M. C. C., & Gemma, H. (2009). Inhibition of aldehyde dehydrogenase enzyme by Durian (Durio zibethinus Murray) fruit extract. Food Chemistry, 117(2), 352–355. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2009.03.106
Ethanethiol - American Chemical Society. (2020). American Chemical Society. https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/molecule-of-the-week/archive/e/ethanethiol.html

Where does mold come from? by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Tim)

USDA FSIS. (2013). Molds on Food: Are They Dangerous? https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/connect/a87cdc2c-6ddd-49f0-bd1f-393086742e68/Molds_on_Food.pdf?MOD=AJPERES
Stradley, L. (2016, April 5). Food Molds – Are Molds Dangerous. What’s Cooking America. https://whatscookingamerica.net/Q-A/Mold.htm
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. (2019). BAM Chapter 18. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. https://www.fda.gov/food/laboratory-methods-food/bam-yeasts-molds-and-mycotoxins

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Janice from Discovery. This is one of our favorite episodes of Curiosity Daily from 2020.
0:05.5	Take a listen to get smarter in just a few minutes and we'll be back with fresh episodes soon.
0:13.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.
0:18.0	com. I'm CodyGoth.
0:20.0	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:21.0	Today you learn about the shocking prevalence of torture scenes in movies and why the world's smelliest fruit smells so bad.
0:28.0	We'll also answer a listener question about where mold comes from.
0:31.0	Let's satisfy some curiosity. Think back to the last
0:34.3	children's movie you watched. Did it have a torture scene? According to a new study,
0:40.1	there's a good chance that it did. Researchers found that torture scenes are everywhere in popular media
0:47.0	and they might be skewing public perception.
0:50.0	This is a weird story.
0:52.0	That study found that 60% of recent top-growing North American films have at least one torture scene, and that includes movies for kids.
1:01.0	For real, the title of the study, Ashley, what's the title of the study?
1:06.0	The title of the study is, wait, there's torture in zutopia, examining the prevalence of torture in popular movies.
1:14.0	Yeah, so why exactly were researchers looking for torture in Zutopia in the first place?
1:21.0	Well, roughly half of the American public thinks that torture is
1:24.6	acceptable when it comes to fighting terrorism. Previous research has shown
1:28.8	that dramatic depictions of torture can boost public support for it, but no one has ever taken a
1:34.2	systematic look at how and how often torture is depicted in the media we consume.
1:39.5	So to find out the researchers examined 27 R-rated movies, 108 PG-13 movies, 58-G-rated movies, and 7-G-rated movies.
1:51.8	They found 275 torture scenes in all, and nine of them were in the seven
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