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The Skeptics Guide #851 - Oct 30 2021

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Is There a Difference Between Left and Right Handed?

All emino acids on earth are, what handed? They're all left handed. All our proteins are leftis and equally interesting, did you know that most of our sugars are rites? No? Didn't know. Thamye know. Nd than i forgot, yes,. in a living organism. And there's a lot of kind of theoretical, er e hypotheses about why this is the case. Could be that in the primordial, the very early universe, glycene found itself to be cairol, and it had this downstream effect where more and more molecules that were produced, if they were one handedness, it was more likely that the other handedness stuck.

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