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Transcript: >> Appreciation that learning should feel hard is something that I'm really understanding better. So teaching a neuroscience of learning class right now, the takeaway is that for your brain to learn, it should feel hard. >> Hi. Welcome to the Science Fair podcast. I'm your host, Susan Keatley. I'm a PhD chemist, writer, and I love talking to scientists. On the Science Fair podcast, I aim to bring you conversations with scientists doing fascinating, cutting edge wo

Transcript: How can we detect systems becoming biology? How can we detect the pathway from chemistry to life? Hi. Welcome to the Science Fair Podcast. I'm your host, Susan Keatley. I'm a PhD chemist, writer, and I love talking to scientists. On the Science Fair Podcast, I aim to bring you conversations with scientists doing fascinating, cutting-edge work on all kinds of interesting phenomena, ranging from physics to chemistry to biology, and even the nature of science itself.

Transcript: I always did have as a child an interest in wanting to understand how things work and that way that manifested was I took a lot of things apart and I made a lot of things. I do remember in elementary school really getting into the scientific methods for the investigative aspect of it trying to come up with how you thought something was going to turn out. Hi, welcome to the science fair podcast. I'm your host, Susan Keatley. I'm a PhD chemist, writer, and I love ta

Transcript: The other big surprise was that I would have never guessed this, but plants combine different pigments to make red. And the color rules don't follow what you would think, right? So for us when we're painting red is a primary color, right? You don't make red by mixing colors, you mix colors like you mix red and yellow to make orange, etc. Plants, I don't know how this works, but they mix orange crotenoids like the chemicals that are in carrots that make carrots ora

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Transcript: We can build buildings with different materials. We can build with concrete, we can build with bricks, we can build with wood. They will have different thermal properties. Most of you are talking about thermal mass and insulation or thermal resistance of the material. They really play a significant role in fighting this second law of thermodynamics. Hi. Welcome to the Science Fair podcast. I'm your host, Susan Keetley. I'm a PhD chemist, writer, and I love talking

Transcript: What happens is one of the cells in the blood just by chance in the normal process of DNA replication a mistake is made and the wrong The wrong base pair ends up in the wrong place and that's what's that's a genetic mutation If that mutation if that change in base pairs happens in the flip 3 gene In a blood cell and specifically in that kinase domain and it affects the way the cells functioning so all four of those things have to be true Then suddenly that cells s

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