Episode 43: Natural vs Man made

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Note: some of the examples mentioned are either kind of already understood or they may have been mentioned in other videos.

Introduction

Selective breeding of apples: https://web.whoi.edu/big/fall-fun-apple-history-and-breeding/

Insulin: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/fromdnatobeer/exhibition-interactive/recombinant-DNA/recombinant-dna-technology-alternative.html

Mycelium (article + video): https://www.theverge.com/22257120/mushroom-bricks-mycelium-sustainable-building-materials

Natural is friendlier to Earth

Humans are the cause of this particular change: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2966

Man made things fill up the gaps

Aspirin history: https://www.aspirin-foundation.com/history/the-aspirin-story/

Pubchem (Aspirin): https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Aspirin#section=Structures

Nature inspires the man made products

Plastic eating bacteria: https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottcarpenter/2021/03/10/the-race-to-develop-plastic-eating-bacteria/?sh=e263d427406a

Ancient bacteria in caves: https://medicine.uq.edu.au/article/2018/12/unknown-microbial-world-thriving-undiscovered-ancient-caves

Horseshoe crab: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/covid-vaccine-needs-horseshoe-crab-blood

Butterfly wings: https://asknature.org/strategy/wing-scales-cause-light-to-diffract-and-interfere/

Artificial spider silk: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/new-artificial-spider-silk-stronger-steel-and-98-percent-water-180964176/

Chatbots kill customer service (forbes) https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherelliott/2018/08/27/chatbots-are-killing-customer-service-heres-why/?sh=364f80ac13c5

Ask Jamie: https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/moh-takes-down-ask-jamie-chatbot-that-gave-misaligned-covid-19-advice?cid=h3_referral_inarticlelinks_03092019_todayonline

Ambiguity

Synthetic vs natural rubber: https://www.gmtrubber.com/natural-vs-synthetic-rubber/

Rubber (a pointlessly long article unless you are very interested): https://www.britannica.com/science/rubber-chemical-compound