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Hayfever, paleobotany and snot palaces

Unexpected Elements

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Pollen: A Tool for Science

Pollen is not only responsible for making allergy sufferers suffer during the flowering season. It is also a wonderful tool for science. Even doctors that are working with the people that are suffering allergies need the science to know what plants are causing the allergy to each patient. But you can also use it to solve crimes. Because you can tell if somebody was in some specific place by the polling you can find in their clothes. The show gets around to building a time machine. Can we go back to Paris in 1890s and by art? Well sorry we're not actually literally going back in time. Yeah I do want to talk to you about how pollen can teach us what has happened in the past

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