The Alien Bacteria Abduction

Tumble Science Podcast for Kids

Tumble Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Scientists stage an alien abduction to learn how bacteria avoid antibiotics, in this fact-meets-fiction episode! Meet our alien bacteria invaders (fiction) and our real life scientist, Caroline Blassick (fact) as they face off in a battle of microbial life and death. We’ll find out how Caroline implants mind-control devices in bacteria to improve human health, in bioengineer Mary Dunlop’s lab. Our bacteria are played by Clara and Elijah, middle school STEM students. This episode is supported by the National Science Foundation under award number MCB 2032357. Learn more about “alien bacteria” on the bonus interview episode on our Patreon, at patreon.com/tumblepodcast. We have more free resources about bacteria and antibiotics available on the blog on our website, sciencepodcastforkids.com

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Lindsay.
0:02.6	And I'm Marshall.
0:03.6	Welcome to Tumble, the show where we explore stories of science discovery.
0:07.2	Today, it's scientist versus an alien invasion.
0:11.6	Wait, aliens invaded? I feel like I should start reading the news.
0:16.0	Alien bacteria invade our bodies and make us sick and they're finding ways to avoid our best medicines.
0:24.0	We'll hear how scientists protect human health
0:27.5	through alien abductions. I got to say today's episode seems to be really pushing the envelope where
0:39.6	we're dealing with an alien invasion. We're trying something a little different today
0:45.0	mixing fact with fiction. We have a real science story but we're also going to add
0:51.2	some made-up characters.
0:53.6	They're invading alien bacteria
0:56.4	and they're going to help us see things
0:58.0	from another point of view.
1:00.0	The bacteria are played by students,
1:02.3	so let's meet them now.
1:04.3	Hello humans, it's us.
1:09.9	Bacteria, we are single-celled organisms and we're inside you right now.
1:15.4	According to your human scientist, there's like 38 trillion of us inside of you.
1:22.2	Resistance is futile.
1:24.0	They're really up on the science literature
1:27.0	for being single-celled organisms who don't have eyes or brains or fingers to read
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