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Maren McKenna

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
474 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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Staph Retreat

It might be that if you don't do it in exactly the way we did, nasty fungus could grow in it, give you a worse infection.

Radiolab
Staph Retreat

We should not have done this.

Radiolab
Staph Retreat

dump cars down the drain but the thing about this whole story that is so intriguing and so cool to me is this time travel thing which is so strange like it's like the idea that something a thousand years ago uh like a bullet forged a thousand years ago we could we could use it now and then it could work that that the time travel dimension of that is so weird to me

Radiolab
Staph Retreat

It kind of makes you think differently about, I don't know, progress.

Radiolab
Staph Retreat

For example, just a few weeks ago, Freya and Christina got up in front of the Royal Society of Chemists.

Radiolab
Staph Retreat

Thank you very much, and it is an absolute pleasure to be here.

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Staph Retreat

Large hotel conference room, 100 or so people.

Radiolab
Staph Retreat

Freya actually got up on stage dressed as a nun.

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Staph Retreat

Okay, so this is one interpretation of what an Anglo-Saxon scientist may have looked like.

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Staph Retreat

And they presented the results.

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Staph Retreat

They did the cooking demo.

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Staph Retreat

And then at some point, Christina said something really interesting.

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Staph Retreat

She was like, OK, sure, we want to write this off because it has demons and dragons and elves in it.

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Staph Retreat

But are we sure that we know what they meant by those words?

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Staph Retreat

There are remedies which ask you, sing for Ave Maria's.

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Staph Retreat

And we would say, oh, that's so superstitious.

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Staph Retreat

This is all in their heads.