Podcast Episodes

What are trans fats and are they evil?

Episode 4

#004 Rebroadcast

This week Melissa and Jam talk about some of the possible unexpected results of hydrogenation, including trans fats.

 

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3 years ago

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What is butter?

Episode 159

#159

Can you spread it? Can you melt it? Can you bake with it? Can you cook things with it? You butter believe it! But what is butter? Or rather, wh…

3 years, 1 month ago

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Bonus: How does lightning striking sand create glass? (and other questions)

Episode 234

Bonus Episode: Question and Response 42

In this month's bonus episode, Melissa and Jam respond to comments and questions about freezing point depres…

3 years, 1 month ago

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How do gemstones get their color?

Episode 158

#158

Gemstones come in all sorts of colors, but how do they get them? Are different stones super different at the molecular level? How do these diff…

3 years, 1 month ago

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What is silver tarnish?

Episode 73

#073 Rebroadcast

Well if you haven't experienced silver tarnish yourself, then you've almost certainly heard people complain about it. Can anything …

3 years, 1 month ago

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How do smoke alarms detect smoke? (part 2)

Episode 157

#157

Part Two: When smoke alarms aren't beeping at us to replace their batteries, they are sitting, watching, waiting for the perfect moment, waitin…

3 years, 1 month ago

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Bonus: Why do cucumbers upset people's stomachs? (and other questions)

Bonus Episode: Question and Response 41

In this month's bonus episode, Melissa and Jam respond to comments and questions about glass cookware, freez…

3 years, 2 months ago

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How do smoke alarms detect smoke? (part 1)

Episode 156

#156

When smoke alarms aren't beeping at us to replace their batteries, they are sitting, watching, waiting for the perfect moment, waiting for smok…

3 years, 2 months ago

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Baking soda and baking powder: What's the difference?

Episode 9

#009 Rebroadcast

Baking powder? Baking soda? I mean they're both white powders with the word "baking" in it. How different could they be? Well, one …

3 years, 2 months ago

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How does baking soda eliminate odors?

Episode 155

#155

So baking soda, do you bake it? Can you drink it? What's the deal? And specifically for the purposes of this episode, how does it eliminate odo…

3 years, 2 months ago

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