Rachel Carlson
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Good Vibrations: How Fiddler Crabs Mate
A component moving through the ground. I imagine she's talking about drumming here. Drum roll.
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Good Vibrations: How Fiddler Crabs Mate
Wait, wait. Okay, I just have to say, I'm taking bachata dance classes right now, and I am so intrigued by how few men have rhythms. So I'm very curious how this drumming works. These crabs have a rhythm. All right, what are the four stages of this courtship dance?
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Good Vibrations: How Fiddler Crabs Mate
That's amazing. I mean, a guy who can dance and has rhythm definitely is sexy. So I would be drawn to this drumming crab.
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Good Vibrations: How Fiddler Crabs Mate
Hard transition. We're going from seismic vibrations during crab courtship to growing chicken nuggets in a laboratory. Why are people trying to grow chicken nuggets at all?
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Good Vibrations: How Fiddler Crabs Mate
Chicken muscle. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I love me some chicken muscle.
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Good Vibrations: How Fiddler Crabs Mate
I mean, I feel like I've heard stuff like this elsewhere. I assume there are other researchers trying to grow meat in labs. What makes these particular chicken nuggets so special?
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Good Vibrations: How Fiddler Crabs Mate
Hello, hello. Welcome. Thank you for having me. Okay, tell me what I am learning about today.
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Good Vibrations: How Fiddler Crabs Mate
So from crab courtship to chicken muscle to drugs without the trip, such as LSD. I mean, why, Rachel, would I ever want to take a drug like LSD but not have the psychedelic effect? Like, what's the whole point?
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Good Vibrations: How Fiddler Crabs Mate
Wait, so I don't get it. These researchers, they just like chop off the trippy part of the LSD molecule? Okay.
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Good Vibrations: How Fiddler Crabs Mate
OK, but what are the chances people would actually start taking these drugs anytime soon?
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Good Vibrations: How Fiddler Crabs Mate
We love a Rachel reported series, don't we? Thanks, Elsa. It's so fun having you here.
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Good Vibrations: How Fiddler Crabs Mate
The crabs are cheering you on. Oh, I love it. Maybe they'll dance with me and have more rhythm than the guys in my class. Let's hope so. We can only hope.
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Good Vibrations: How Fiddler Crabs Mate
All right, guys, to start us off, tell me all about these fiddler crabs that apparently do not fiddle.