Podcast: An omnipresent antimicrobial, a lichen ménage à trois, and tiny tide-induced tremors

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🗓️ 21 July 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Stories on a lichen threesome, tremors caused by tides, and a theoretical way to inspect nuclear warheads without looking too closely at them, with Catherine Matacic. Despite concerns about antibiotic resistance, it seems like antimicrobials have crept into everything—from hand soap to toothpaste, and even fabrics. What does the ubiquitous presence of these compounds mean for our microbiomes? Alyson Yee talks with host Sarah Crespi about one antimicrobial in particular—triclosan—which has been partially banned in the European Union. [Image: T. Wheeler/Music: Jeffrey Cook] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:20.5	Welcome to the science podcast for July 22, 2016.
1:22.0	I'm Sarah Crespy.
1:29.6	In this week's show, Alison Ye walks us through the mysteries of an omnipresent antimicrobial, and Catherine Mattisick is here with a roundup of stories from our daily news site.
1:38.7	Now we have Catherine Mattisick, an editor for our daily news site. She's here to talk about
1:43.5	some recent online stories. First, we have for our daily news site. She's here to talk about some recent online stories.
1:45.7	First, we have a story on unlikely lichen. For almost 140 years, we've thought, I'm
1:52.4	including myself here and the many laconologists out there, that lichen are a combo organism,
1:59.3	a symbiote made up of a fungus and a photosynthetic organism, either algae or cyanobacteria.
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