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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Stereo Chemistry episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Stereo Chemistry for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Stereo Chemistry episode by adding your comments to the episode page.
Ep. 37: Historians pursue centuries-old chemical secrets—Green reading glass, Bologna stones, and Greek fire
Stereo Chemistry
01/19/21 • 24 min
Researchers want to invent the technologies of the future, but there are plenty of chemical questions lurking in the past. In this episode of Stereo Chemistry, C&EN assistant editor Gina Vitale joins host Kerri Jansen to explore the centuries-old secrets and nagging mysteries that keep science historians up at night—and how these researchers go about solving them. A script and additional resources are available at bit.ly/3qGGHg5.
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Ep. 38: Nobel laureates Frances Arnold and Jennifer Doudna on prizes, pandemics, and Jimmy Page
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02/16/21 • 30 min
Where do you take your career after you’ve won all of science’s biggest prizes? In this episode of Stereo Chemistry, C&EN executive editor Lisa Jarvis sits down with Nobel laureates Frances Arnold and Jennifer Doudna to hear about whether their career goals changed after they got that early-morning phone call in October and how the pandemic has shifted the way they approach their work. A script of this episode is available at bit.ly/3u7jCW7. Sign up for C&EN's newsletter at cenm.ag/chemnewsletter. Catch up on last year's package of trailblazing women chemists, edited by Jennifer Doudna, at cenm.ag/2020trailblazers. Image credit: Caltech (Arnold)/Laura Morton Photography (Doudna)
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BONUS: How body farms can help solve cases
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08/24/21 • 23 min
This month, Stereo Chemistry is sharing an episode of Orbitals that features an interview with forensic chemist Shari Forbes, an expert in human decomposition who studies the odors of decomposition at a body farm in chilly Quebec. Research at body farms—research facilities dedicated to studying what happens to human bodies after death—supplies law enforcement with valuable information about the process of decomposition in various scenarios. A transcript of this episode is available at bit.ly/3jdvLFN.
Find more stories from Orbitals on the American Chemical Society’s website, acs.org, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Image credit: Courtesy of Orbitals/C&EN
BONUS: Celebrating LGBTQ+ excellence with My Fave Queer Chemist
Stereo Chemistry
06/29/21 • 48 min
This month, we’re sharing an episode of the podcast My Fave Queer Chemist. Hosted by graduate students Bec Roldan and Geraldo Duran-Camacho, the show celebrates the excellence of LGBTQ+ chemists everywhere. Stereo Chemistry is excited to share this recent episode featuring inorganic photochemist Irving Rettig. In the episode, Rettig discusses his background in art conservation, his experiences finding support and community in grad school, and his work promoting transgender-inclusive name change policies within academic publishing.
Note: This episode includes the use of slang terms for some members of the LGBTQ+ community. A transcript of this episode is available at bit.ly/3624azW. Follow My Fave Queer Chemist on Twitter at @MFQCPod. Find new episodes at anchor.fm/mfqc.
Read C&EN’s article "LGBTQ+ Chemists You Should Know About" at cenm.ag/historiclqbtq. Image credit: My Fave Queer Chemist/Will Ludwig/Yang Ku/C&EN
BONUS: Rare earths’ magic comes at a cost (Part 1)
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07/27/21 • 27 min
(Part 1/2) This month, Stereo Chemistry is sharing a pair of episodes from Distillations, a podcast from the Science History Institute. We rely on rare-earth elements to make many essential technologies like smartphones, medical imaging devices, and wind turbines. But how much do you know about where these extraordinary materials come from? In this two-part series, Distillations hosts Alexis Pedrick and Elisabeth Berry Drago explore the source of rare earths’ “magic,” the costs of acquiring these elements and what scientists are doing to try to find a way to produce them sustainably.
A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/373odhN.
Find more stories from Distillations at Distillations.org. Image credit: Courtesy of Distillations/C&EN
04/10/20 • 14 min
Fifty years ago this week, an explosion on the Apollo 13 moon mission stranded three astronauts hundreds of thousands of miles from home. You probably know that Fred Haise, Jim Lovell, and Jack Swigert made it home safely (water landing shown, with two of the astronauts in white). You may not know the chemist behind the rocket engine that saved them, which began its life as an apparatus for measuring chemical reaction rates. This bonus episode of Stereo Chemistry tells the story of the engine’s design with help from two of the people who created it. Listen now to a tale that starts with an explosion and ends with SpaceX’s pioneering reusable rockets, with one small step for a man along the way. CORRECTIONS: This episode was updated on April 15, 2020, to reflect that Fred Haise, not Ken Mattingly, flew aboard Apollo 13. On April 22, 2020, this podcast description was also corrected to reflect Haise's role and clarify that the photo shows only two of the astronauts.
To learn more about the chemistry of rocket fuel, check out Ep. 23 of Stereo Chemistry: https://cen.acs.org/physical-chemistry/astrochemistry/Podcast-rocket-chemistry-blasted-off/97/i42
Image credit: NASA
Sarah Reisman and Melanie Sanford on how organic chemistry is changing and how they’ve learned to choose priorities
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02/15/22 • 23 min
Being a chemistry professor is a juggling act. But sometimes professors have too many balls in the air. How do they know which ones to grab and which to let drop? In this episode of Stereo Chemistry, C&EN's Leigh Krietsch Boerner sits down with organic chemists Sarah Reisman and Melanie Sanford to hear how they decide what projects to work on, what sparks joy for them in the lab, and what being an organic chemist really means to them.
A transcript of this episode will be available soon at cen.acs.org.
Sign up for C&EN’s Selling Your Science: The Art of Science Communication at cenm.ag/sciencecommunication. Contact Stereo Chemistry by emailing [email protected]. Image credit: Will Ludwig/C&EN/Lance Hayashida/University of Michigan
Stereo Chemistry Promo I: Fishin’ in the desert
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01/28/18 • 7 min
C&EN is launching a new podcast, Stereo Chemistry, on Feb. 28. To give you a little nibble of what to expect, hosts Matt Davenport and Kerri Jansen joined C&EN senior business editor, Melody Bomgardner, to learn how chemistry is helping support a sustainable fish farm in Idaho's Magic Valley. Stereo Chemistry is published by C&EN, the newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society. Contact us at [email protected] Hosted by Kerri Jansen, Matt Davenport, and Melody Bomgardner Written by Matt Davenport and Melody Bomgardner Produced by Matt Davenport
02/20/20 • 14 min
Stereo Chemistry talked with six chemists who spent a year in Washington on a policy fellowship to find out what they learned and what advice they would give to other scientists who are interested in science policy.
Check out Andrea Widener’s AAAS policy fellows story on C&EN at https://cen.acs.org/policy/Lessons-learned-from-a-year-in-Washington/98/i4.
And learn more about the AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship at https://www.aaas.org/programs/science-technology-policy-fellowships.
Photo credit: James Kegley
Bonus: The sticky science of why we eat so much sugar
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05/31/22 • 34 min
Our bodies need sugar to survive. But most of us consume way more than we actually need, and many foods and beverages pack a dose of added sweeteners. So why are we eating all of this extra sugar? This month, Stereo Chemistry is sharing an episode of the podcast Tiny Matters that examines that question. In the episode, hosts Sam Jones and Deboki Chakravarti explore sugar’s impact on our bodies and trace how a genetic mutation that helped our distant ancestors survive is influencing our health today. And they dig into the debate around whether sugar can fairly be called addictive.
Note: This episode contains discussion of addiction and eating disorders.
Listen to Tiny Matters on the American Chemical Society’s website at https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/tiny-matters.html or on your favorite podcast platform.
ACS also publishes Chemical & Engineering News, which is the independent news outlet that powers Stereo Chemistry.
More on sugar from C&EN: The sugar wars are about to change your food label. Here’s why.https://cen.acs.org/business/specialty-chemicals/sugar-wars-change-food-label/97/i41
The case against sugar https://cen.acs.org/articles/92/i31/Case-Against-Sugar.html
Image credit: Courtesy of Tiny Matters/C&EN
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Stereo Chemistry currently has 92 episodes available.
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The podcast is about News, Chemistry, Podcasts and Science.
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The episode title 'Ep. 37: Historians pursue centuries-old chemical secrets—Green reading glass, Bologna stones, and Greek fire' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on Stereo Chemistry is 25 minutes.
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Episodes of Stereo Chemistry are typically released every 27 days, 23 hours.
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The first episode of Stereo Chemistry was released on Jan 28, 2018.
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