FORK U #100 — The Hall of Fame and Shame
🎙 Celebrating 100 Episodes of Science, Sanity, and a Little Sarcasm
This is it — our 100th episode of FORK U.
Over the last hundred episodes, we’ve gone from goat-gland hucksters to the microbiome, from Kellogg’s enemas to cholesterol chemistry, and from Blue Zones to bird flu.
Today, we look back …
In the News... It's World Diabetes Day! Top stories and headlines for Nov 14, 2025
It's In the News.. a look at the top headlines and stories in the diabetes community. This week's top stories: It's World Diabetes Day and we have a LOT of news to get to! Daily oral insulin tested to prevent T1D, mothers and sons and a T1D link, stem cell updates, Tandem Android news, Omnipod's wo…
The Insulin Patent Sold for One Dollar - December 27, 1923
Before 1922, a diabetes diagnosis was a death sentence, especially for children who wasted away on starvation diets while their families watched helplessly. On December 27, 1923, Frederick Banting, Charles Best, and James Collip sold their patent for the life-saving hormone insulin to the Universit…
Discovery of Insulin
Diabetes is one of the most prevalent diseases in the world, affecting over 500 million people. Today it is very manageable, and thanks to modern medicine most people can live a long, normal life. But that was not always the case. Before the 1920s diabetes was often a death sentence. At least until…
The Peptide Bazaar: Real Medicine vs. Vials from the Internet
The word “peptide” is doing too much work
Let’s start with the simplest truth.
A peptide is just a chain of amino acids—like pearls on a necklace. That’s it. Nothing mystical. Nothing magical.
However, structure matters. Sequence matters. Biology cares deeply about both.
Because of that, some pepti…
The DonorsChoose Revolution: Turning Classroom Needs into National Insights
In this episode of the Charity Charge Show, host Stephen Garten sits down with Kristina "Steen" Joye Lyles, Executive Vice President of Impact for DonorsChoose. Since its founding in 2000, DonorsChoose has revolutionized philanthropy by creating a transparent, direct-to-classroom funding model.
Ste…
SGEM#511: I’d Like To Treat, DKA with the SQuID Protocol
Date: May 20, 2026
Guest Skeptic: Dr. Matt McArthur is an ED Physician working primarily in Guelph and Kitchener with occasional rural locums in the small town of Walkerton, where he grew up. His clinical interests include POCUS, emergency cardiology, QI, knowledge translation, motivational intervi…
15 - Study Questions
Study QuestionsOne of the basic requirements of citizenship is to demonstrate that you have adequate knowledge of Canada. The citizenship test is used to assess your knowledge of Canada and the rights and responsibilities of being a citizen in Canada.
All the citizenship test questions are based on…
How Mistakes Changed Medicine
In this episode, Robin and Chris explore seven of the most fascinating accidental medical discoveries in history. They cover the story behind penicillin, the lifesaving antibiotic discovered when Alexander Fleming noticed a mold killing bacteria; insulin, found by Frederick Banting and Charles Best…
The Discovery of Insulin: The Boy Who Lived
In January 1922, at Toronto General Hospital, a 14-year-old boy named Leonard Thompson was dying of diabetes. At the time, a diagnosis meant a starvation diet and, usually, death within months. Then doctors gave him an injection of a new extract made in a University of Toronto laboratory.
This epis…
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I listen to podcasts.
‐ Albert "Llamacorn" Einstein
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