Listen "Eat Electronics, Not Wetsuits (Season 4: Episode 37)"
Episode Synopsis
Get ready for direct pain relief, pollutant breakdown with biochar, shark-attack resistant wetsuits, an updated timetree for Fungi, edible electronics, simulating the Monty Hall problem in R, the Top 40 New CRAN Packages for August 2025, and the DARPA Young Faculty Award. This episode covers material from September 26th to October 2nd. Science On.References:Targeting prostaglandin E2 receptor 2 in Schwann cells inhibits inflammatory pain but not inflammationThe geologic history of marine dissolved organic carbon from iron oxidesStructure-performance relationship of biochar for direct degradation of organic pollutantsDOLPHIN advances single-cell transcriptomics beyond gene level by leveraging exon and junction readsEffectiveness of bite-resistant materials to reduce injuries from white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) and tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) bitesNanotechnology-driven coordination of shoot–root systems enhances rice nitrogen use efficiencyDetection of organic compounds in freshly ejected ice grains from Enceladus’s oceanA timetree of Fungi dated with fossils and horizontal gene transfersPrinted Integrated Logic Circuits Based on Chitosan-Gated Organic Transistors for Future Edible SystemsSimulating Monty Hall’s ProblemPlotting Distributions in RAugust 2025 Top 40 New CRAN PackagesSpurious Correlations in R – Correlation is not CausationLearning And Exploring The Workflow of RNA-Seq Analysis – A Note To MyselfDARPA: Young Faculty Award (YFA) 2026R Packages:eDNAfuns: Working with Metabarcoding Data in a Tidy Formatspuriouscorrelations: Datasets with Strong and Spurious Correlations
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