Matt Hartings: My Bacon Number
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2016
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Chemist Matt Hartings is excited -- and a little frantic -- when he receives an unexpected invitation to talk about the science of bacon on The Today Show. Matt Hartings is a chemist who works at American University. When he's not being bossed around by chairs and deans and provosts, he's more than happy to be bossed around by his wife and three kids. Matt's research involves putting nanoparticles inside of polymers to make new stuff that does new kinds of things. He also loves food. And the science of food. He's currently writing a book on kitchen chemistry and will be speaking about a little of that today.
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| 0:55.8 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:58.9 | Is NYU scientists the... |
| 1:00.7 | I felt... |
| 1:01.5 | I was so... |
| 1:02.8 | And I just thought, well... |
| 1:03.7 | It was that golden moment. |
| 1:06.9 | Because science was on my side. |
| 1:17.5 | ... because science was on my side. Hi everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true |
| 1:21.4 | personal stories about science. |
| 1:23.7 | This week's story is from Matt Hardings. |
| 1:25.4 | It was recorded in March 2016 at the downtown library in San Diego, California as part of the San Diego Festival of Science and Engineering. This program was jointly supported by the NSF NASA Center for Chemical Evolution and the NSF Center for Aerosol Impacts on Climate and the environment. |
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