Gene Editing with CRISPR and GMOs (w/ Synthego), Fast Radio Bursts, and Angel’s Trumpet
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Learn about CRISPR technology and applications in GMOs; a hallucinogenic plant that’s both beautiful and deadly; and how scientists are working together to understand Fast Radio Bursts, which are one of the universe’s greatest mysteries.
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com — with some help from Synthego’s Meenakshi Prabhune and Kevin Bryant — to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:
- The Hallucinogenic Angel's Trumpet Plant Is Beautiful and Deadly — https://curiosity.im/2EbynRj
- How scientists are working together to solve one of the universe's mysteries — https://curiosity.im/2EfVhG2
More from Synthego:
- CRISPR Cuts, Synthego’s official podcast — https://www.synthego.com/podcast
- About Synthego — https://www.synthego.com/company
- Follow Synthego on Twitter — https://twitter.com/synthego
- Meenakshi (Minu) Prabhune on Twitter — https://twitter.com/minu_pr
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we've got the latest and greatest from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:05.8 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:06.8 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.8 | Today you learn about how scientists are working together to understand fast radio bursts, which are one of the universe's greatest mysteries. |
| 0:14.0 | You'll also learn about a hallucinogenic plant that's both beautiful and deadly. |
| 0:18.0 | Trippy. |
| 0:19.0 | Plus we'll talk about CRISPR technology and GMOs |
| 0:22.0 | with experts from the genome engineering innovation |
| 0:24.1 | company Cynthia. Let's satisfy some curiosity on the award-winning |
| 0:27.6 | Curiosity Daily. One of the most baffling puzzles of modern astrophysics is the |
| 0:32.1 | nature of fast radio bursts. |
| 0:34.6 | And thanks to a new project, scientists from all around the world are working together to solve |
| 0:38.8 | this cosmic mystery. |
| 0:40.3 | Actually, how have you not told me about this before? |
| 0:42.3 | I don't know about everything in the universe, Cody. |
| 0:45.0 | You know about everything in the universe, actually. |
| 0:48.0 | That's what you're here for. |
| 0:49.0 | This is totally new to me. |
| 0:50.0 | I didn't know what fast radio burstssts were and I'm super intrigued now. |
| 0:54.0 | All right, well I thought Blackholes were cool because of you and now I think Fast Radio Bursts |
| 0:58.0 | are just the coolest thing. So as reported by the conversation, Fast Radio Bur bursts were first discovered in 2007 and a relatively rare |
| 1:06.7 | extremely bright flashes of light with radio wavelengths. They last only milliseconds. They come from outside our galaxy, the Milky Way. They come |
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