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On The Ones And Twos

A Podcast Of Unnecessary Detail

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Is Fusili Pastor a Right Handed Sugar?

For the vast majority of molecules in nature, they only have one of the handednesses. Like if you take a corkscrew and turn it upside down, the spiral's still going in the same way. All cirol molecules that you find in nature are always one way and never the other. Screws, generally speaking, are homo cirol. If we like left handed sugar, would it taste the same, or be a different taste?

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