Cara Santa Maria

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5,033 appearances 14 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 4d ago

Cara Santa Maria’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe · The Skeptics Guide #1063 - Nov 22 2025 podcast

And I know that this is an area of a lot of research. matched

And like, you know, when we talk about sort of plastics or even biochemical innovation, we just see so much happening so quickly, like when we talk about material science. matched

And when we talk about biochemistry in the lab, but I don't know, textile science, I feel like it's really bifurcated. matched

It's like the old school natural methods. matched

And then it's like the new stuff, which is all material science and it's all plastic. matched

It's all like synthetics. matched

And so either, I don't know, the will hasn't been there or maybe there is something that prevents it from happening. matched

Of course, then that means that there's a vacuum. matched

So there's, you know, space for a lot of innovation. matched

But this one just seems like an area that we're not reading about very often and we're not seeing like these huge improvements and changes. matched

But I mean, this is such a shot in the dark because all of these seem like they could be. matched

either completely realistic or not realistic at all, but I just got to put my nickel down. matched

So I'll say the bacterial cellulose production is either not increased by tenfold or it's not approaching cost parity with natural fibers. matched

One of those two things may be false. matched

I doubt it's that it was not in South Korea, but yeah, I'll give it. matched

Also, that one is really complex. matched

It has enough variables that maybe one or two of those things are wrong. matched

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe · The Skeptics Guide #827 - May 15 2021 podcast

Yeah, you still usually get tried for that. voice-verified

The reason we've changed our wording when we talk about public health, people don't use the term anymore. voice-verified

You'll notice this if you open your ears. voice-verified

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