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EPISODE · May 31, 2023 · 1H 50M

40: Mitochondrial Eve, Climate Change CRISPR, and Telephone Music

from Let's Learn Everything! · host Tom Lum

Who is the most recent human we all share our DNA with?  How can CRISPR be used to help the climate crisis?  And what do telephones have to do with music?Support us with a Max Fun Membership!Join our Discord!Timestamps:(00:00:00) Intro(00:04:22) Mitochondrial Eve(00:39:21) Climate Change CRISPR(01:14:15) Telephone Music(01:47:15) OutroImages we talk about:Early Headphone AdvertisementWe also learn about: Dartboard topics, Most recent common female ancestor, that’s actually the topic! endosymbiotically engulfing mitochondria, every animal now has this little friend, a fly gets caught in a photocopier and now we can’t live without it, mitochondrial DNA is only passed down the female line, mitochondrial DNA mutates once every 8,000 years, mitochondrial eve may have existed 150,000 years ago, eve wasn’t alone but she was our common ancestor, the eve of sperm whales was only 10,000 years ago, for squids it was 35,000 years, “won’t somebody think of the men”, Y Chromosomal Adam may have come from 210,000 years ago, concestor, simulating the concestor in a simulation, it’s not really a family tree it’s a messy web that we can draw a triangle around, GMOs vs Gene Editing, cool rad interspersed short palindromic repeats, tell them about how repairs happen! just some extracurricular learning, tom guesses cow farts in one, fartless cows without editing the cows themselves, we could eat less meet or just genome edit our way out of this, blue ribbon cow fart judge, is this a bandaid? making plants work harder to absorb CO2, photosynthesis labor laws, it’s not just “eat more carbon” it’s also grow deeper roots, “adapting the world to suit our misuse, rather than trying to improve our own behavior”, who needs pesticides when you have ugly plants, the scientific community is carefully thinking about these things, head phones, switchboard operators, that’s so gool, tom puts the podcast on hold, the devil invented hold music, hold music and temporal perception. no music makes time slow down, the fans of hold music, Tim Carleton’s stereo mistake “yeah… sorry about that”, the vocal encoder, mmm whatcha say, “it is the identity of our artistic project”, Ella’s Sherlock ringtone, Dark Blue, a book about making ringtones, 346   certified gold ringtones, Beyonce is the ringtone queen, ringtone podcasts, can only hope we’re causing as many people bodily harm as possibleSources:No, a Mitochondrial “Eve” Is Not the First Female in a SpeciesOrigin of MitochondriaBiologos: Mitochondrial Eve and Y Chromosome AdamMitochondrial DNA and human evolutionAll About Mitochondrial Eve: An Interview with Rebecca CannMolecular ClockHaplogroupsGiant Squid Mitochondrial EveSequencing Y Chromosomes Resolves Discrepancy in Time to Common Ancestor of Males Versus FemalesThe 'extremely ancient' chromosomeMost Recent common ancestor---National Human Genome Research Institue: What is genome editing?GOV.UK: Plans to unlock power of gene editing unveiledNature: History of Agricultural Biotechnology: How Crop Development has EvolvedSynthego: History of Genetic Engineering and the Rise of Genome Editing ToolsBROAD Institute: Questions and Answers about CRISPR2021 Paper: Application of Gene Editing for Climate Change in AgricultureInnovature: Gene Editing Is A Key To Environmental Sustainability2021 Paper: EU policy must change to reflect the potential of gene editing for addressing climate change2019 Paper: Application of genetic modification and genome editing for developing climate-smart bananaUC Davis: Can CRISPR Cut Methane Emissions From Cow Guts?Article: Biotech company claims genetic selection can cut methane emissions in cattle2017 Paper: Is Editing the Genome for Climate Change Adaptation Ethically Justifiable?Cut and Paste - Francis Crick Institude---Headphone History from Smithsonian MagHold Music Technicalities from NPRThe Influence of Music on Temporal Perceptions in an on-hold Waiting SituationThis American Life Hold Music EpisodeTim Carleton's Opus No 1 from The AtlanticOpus No 1 in Mono and Carleton's CommentVocal Encoder PatentLogic Manual on Vocoder HistoryDaft Punk Vocoder InterviewBook on Ring TonesCNN Ring Tone Interviews from 2006RIAA Gold & Platinum RingtonesCNN on Phone Music Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinlearn

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