The Dirty Drug and the Ice Cream Tub
Radiolab
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What Is an Indian Uncle Vibe?
In the sixties, our friend serren is doing drug research. He's just kind of like your typical indian dad. When i see pictures of him, he's wearing a suit,. that's what the indian uncle will wear. They isolated a compound that was not seen before andit had a very interesting molecular structure. And it's this clear, white, crystalline type of powder looking thing. So they test it on different peatr dishes, and they expose it to certain bacteria, of certain fungi to kind of see how they'll react to the compound. Ad then they observe, and after a few days, any fungus they put it in contact with would just stop
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