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Season 10
Episode 14
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Chirality is Just Turtles All the Way Down
Season 10
Episode 8
L-DOPA is the best drug we have for Parkinson’s disease. If you take L-DOPA and reflect it in a mirror, you get a different molecule: D-DOPA, which does absolutely nothing for Parkinson’s and causes potentially deadly side effects. Making just L-DOPA without D-DOPA is surprisingly hard – so hard that the person who finally figured out how to do it won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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Can a medicine cause a war? The treatment for Malaria may just have.
11:30
We explore what happens to space debris closest to the earth.
12:47
We look at the century-long quest for the Holy Grail: synthetic blood.
13:38
The process might be relatively simple but it's dangerous and illegal without a license.
9:32
Gas stove ranges are polluting our homes.
13:43
We look at the science behind the whole process, from sap to syrup.
11:50
With the right cleaning methods, we can turn the dirtiest water into safe cleaning water.
9:12
Counterintuitively, you do it with explosives.
12:10
We’re gonna dive into the controversial chemistry of water's unusual properties.
10:03
Plot twist: Toxic Anhydrous ammonia is responsible for 50% of the food on your table.
8:43
It all has to do with the octane rating!
7:29
This is a deeper dive into how complicated and climate based hibernation is.