DSPod SOLO returns for a conversation about a recent edition of “you can just do things,” where Github CEO Nat Friedman and company tested the levels of endocrine disrupting chemicals in 700 common food items. And friends, it does not look good! We dig through the data to pull out some trends that can help us avoid getting slowly poisoned by our food, try to figure out if akshually no it’s fine that there’s plastics everywhere, and debate if there’s a better way of naming these chemicals that reflects their ball-crushing nature.
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(00:01:37) Beyond the Big Bang Conference in Portugal
(00:06:16) Industrial Production Suspicion
(00:13:26) Research and Remediation
(00:22:54) Forest Fire Fighting Anecdotes
(00:25:38) Plastic Research Approach
(00:33:04) Plastic Contaminants in Food
(00:45:00) Regulations and Lobbying
(00:50:07) Inconsistent Chemical Testing
(00:54:06) Thermal Receipts and Chemical Exposure
(01:00:08) Fast Food and Plasticizers
(01:05:25) Impact on Gene Expression
(01:10:12) Phthalates and Hormonal Disruption
(01:14:40) Phthalates in Food Products
(01:17:46) Phthalates Effects on Reproduction
(01:25:00) Comprehensive Chemical Safety Research
(01:29:56) Testing and Chemical Awareness
(01:31:06) Bias and Precommitment
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PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities.
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