What makes blueberries blue, and myth buster Adam Savage on science communication

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🗓️ 15 February 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Why squeezing a blueberry doesn’t get you blue juice, and a myth buster and a science editor walk into a bar First up on the show this week, MythBusters’s Adam Savage chats with Science Editor-in-Chief Holden Thorp about the state of scholarly publishing, better ways to communicate science, plus a few myths Savage still wants to tackle. Next on the show, making blueberries without blue pigments. Rox Middleton, a postdoctoral fellow at the Dresden University of Technology and honorary research associate at the University of Bristol, joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about how blueberries and other blue fruits owe their hue to a trick of the light caused by specialized wax on their surface. In a sponsored segment from the Science/AAAS Custom Publishing Office, Erika Berg, director and senior editor of custom publishing, interviews professor Jim Wells about organoid therapies. This segment is sponsored by Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. About the Science Podcast Authors: Sarah Crespi; Holden Thorp Episode page: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.z7ye2st Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:25.1	2024. I'm Sarah Crespi. First up this week, former Mythbuster, Adam Savage,
1:30.3	chats with Sciences editor-in-chief Holden Thorpe about how to combat misinformation, plus a few
1:36.1	myths Savage still wants to tackle. Next on the show, making blueberries without blue pigments.
1:42.4	Researcher Rox Middleton joins me to talk about how specialized wax on the surface of blueberries
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