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Petri Dish

Petri Dish

By Petri Dish

Profane, insane, and 100% primo science, Petri Dish is a no-BS podcast that explores the wildest subjects in modern science with clarity and evil joy.

Hosted by Sean Allen, a Nanoparticle/Immunology Researcher, and Nathan Allen, his "screenwriter" brother, Petri Dish fuses hard science with a freewheeling and madcap conversational style.

Cannabinoids, Plague, Cats, the dreaded Candiru, and the even more dreaded Covid-19: all these and more are dissected with intellect and irreverence, dropping every week.

So reject ignorance. Join the Scientific Revolution. Join Petri Dish.
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Ep. 113 Strange Medieval Treatments Feat. The Microbe Moment Pt. 1

Petri DishSep 06, 2021

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Ep. 185 How to Make a Drug Pt 2: Libraries and Design
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Ep. 184 How to Make a Drug Pt 1: A Target
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Ep. 183 Influenza Pt 4: Vaccines and Pandemics
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Ep. 182 Influenza Pt 3: Whaddya Gonna Do About It?
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Ep. 181 Influenza Pt 2: The Piggies
May 22, 202344:06
Ep. 180 Influenza Pt 1: Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza
May 15, 202341:43
Ep. 179 The Silence of the Plants
May 01, 202333:02
Ep. 178 A Baby Born of Two Daddies
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Ep. 177 Black Holes Pt 2: Quasi-Stars and Quasars
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Ep. 176 Black Holes Pt 1: Curvy Thicc Spacetime Stuff
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Ep. 175 The Norfolk Southern Environmental Trainwreck
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Ep. 174 Desalination Pt 2: A Not-So-Salty Future?
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Last of Us Rerelease! Fungus Pt 2: Cordyceps and More!

Last of Us Rerelease! Fungus Pt 2: Cordyceps and More!

Hi Everyone!

We're interrupting our series on desalination to put out a quick rerelease of one of our episodes on Fungi! We're doing this in honor of the season 1 finale of The Last of Us, which heavily features a fungus called Cordyceps, which we covered in this episode. Check it out and learn more about cordyceps, similar fungi, and much nicer fungi that improve human life rather than turning us into freaky zombies.

Mar 13, 202357:37
Ep. 173 Desalination Pt 1: So Salty
Feb 27, 202345:17
Ep. 172 VEXAS: A Mystery Syndrome
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Ep. 171 Side Quests 2: Cancer and Concrete
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Ep. 170 Death Pt 2: A Twitching Heart
Jan 30, 202358:01
Ep 169 Death Pt.1: Disembodied Pig Brains

Ep 169 Death Pt.1: Disembodied Pig Brains

On our first episode about Death, we look into a paper published a few years that described the reanimation of a pig brain! Spooky! Let’s get into the science behind it and some of its implications for humans!

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Ep 168. The Tridemic

Ep 168. The Tridemic

This winter season the world is dealing with not two but three respiratory illnesses at the same time. While these are familiar names at this point, they’re definitely different from one another, so let’s get into COVID, the flu, and RSV!

Jan 16, 202341:35
Ep. 167 Coffee Pt 2: Dry, Wet, Honey, and Poop
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Ep. 166 Coffee Pt 1: Species and History
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Ep. 165 Viral Hepatitis Pt 2: The Chronic
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Ep. 164 Viral Hepatitis Pt 1: Acute But Not Cute
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Ep. 163 Random Walks, Brownian Motion, and the Physics of Big Bacteria
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Ep. 162 Really Huge Bacteria
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Ep. 161 Monkeypox Pt 2: APOBEC3 and Microevolution
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Ep. 160 Caffeine Pt 2: Muscles and Sensitivity
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Ep. 159 Caffeine Pt 1: The Most Popular Psychoactive Drug in the World
Aug 15, 202232:48
Ep. 158 Alzheimer's Redux: Lies, Fraud, and Misconduct
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Ep. 157 Monkeypox
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Ep. 156 Venom Pt 3: Medicine and Mammals

Ep. 156 Venom Pt 3: Medicine and Mammals

Jul 25, 202247:57
Ep. 155 Venom Pt 2: Animal Extravaganza

Ep. 155 Venom Pt 2: Animal Extravaganza

Part two of our series on venom! We start out talking about some venomous jellyfish and other cnidarians before moving on to arthropods, like some very venomous spiders! Then we go into treatment options for venom before finishing with some very strange venomous amphibians! Not just poisonous! Venomous! 

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Ep. 154 Venom Pt 1: Bites and Stings and Ouchie Things
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Ep. 153 Hot Dogs and Nitrates
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Ep. 152 Doping Pt 2: Up For Debate
Jun 27, 202247:08
Ep. 151 Doping Pt 1: Juicing
Jun 20, 202237:02
Ep. 150: Organic Poisons
Jun 13, 202228:58
Ep. 149 Sports Medicine: Whey
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Ep. 148 Side Quests 1: Frenchmen and Killer High Schools
May 30, 202232:58
Ep. 147 Poisons Pt 3: Arsenic, The King of Poisons
May 23, 202231:24
Ep. 146 Poisons Pt 2: Get the Lead Out

Ep. 146 Poisons Pt 2: Get the Lead Out

Hi everyone! Here is part 2 in our series on poisons. This time we discuss lead!

Our new sponsor is Athletic Greens, a really solid and easy way to get your vitamins if you're like me and are too silly/busy to cook proper meals every day and need to get those nutrients somehow! Check them out and get a free 1 year supply of Vitamin D and 5 travel packs by heading over to athleticgreens.com/emerging

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Ep. 145 Poisons Pt 1: Heavy Metal
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[Reupload] Ep 144 Jurassic Pt 3: This is the Last One For Now
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Ep 144 Jurassic Pt 3: This is the Last One For Now
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Ep. 143 Jurassic Pt 2: Finally Actually Dinosaurs
Apr 25, 202249:38
Ep. 142 Jurassic Pt 1: Angry Magma
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Ep. 141 Triassic Pt 2: Almost Dino Time
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A Brief Petri Announcement

A Brief Petri Announcement

We're taking a one episode break, Nathan kind of explains why...

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Ep. 140 Welcome to Triassic Park Part 1
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Ep. 139 The Great Dying
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