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Seset engines is a lightly competitive science knowledge show case. Science expert ery wryly joins host hank green to discuss the week's featured news stories. Sam sholtz, i'm always here. We can't get rid of you. You're always right down the street from me,. in that house i've never been inside of because it's coved there. And also a resident every man.

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These little, bubbly guys help us make such perennial favorites as 'bread' and 'beer.' If you're saying to yourself "what is yeast, Alex," I got good news for you: you're right! Come learn about the microscopic fungus amung us on this week's Tangents!

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[Trivia Question]

Yeast mitotic arrest

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4255140/

[Fact Off]

Stinking hellebore flower and yeast relationship

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2871880/

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527473-900-stinky-flower-is-kept-warm-by-yeast-partner/#ixzz7HEPFjzKB

Fruit fly and yeast relationship

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(14)00777-3

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0196440

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4556146/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0300962983906011

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(12)00075-9

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/fruit-flies-use-alcohol-to-self-medicate-but-feel-bad-about-it-afterwards/

[Ask the Science Couch]

History of yeast

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/yeasts

http://www.faculty.umb.edu/gary_zabel/Courses/Spinoza/Texts/WAW%20Moll%20Antonie%20van%20Leeuwenhoek.htm

https://books.google.com/books?id=gy_SAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA228&lpg=PA228

https://books.google.com/books?id=XILwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA72&lpg=PA72

http://e-malt.com/statistics/ScientificDigest/Beginnings_of_microbiology_and_biochemistry_yeast_research.pdf

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