# Alexander Fleming

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PREMIUM MY ASS!

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The Age of Cures: Barry Werth on How Big Pharma Once Saved Your Life

“Kennedy and Trump are taking a wrecking ball to probably the most important thing we have done consistently better than the rest of the world over the last eighty years, and I don’t get it.” — Barry Werth   Last week on the show, the San Francisco based AI mogul and Eureka Machine author Richar ...

The Silent Pandemic: A Worked Critical Realist Case Study of Antimicrobial Resistance

The Silent Pandemic: Critical Realism, the Selection-Debt Spiral, and Antimicrobial Resistance Episode Description In this episode, we unpack "Chapter 10. The Silent Pandemic: A Worked Critical Realist Case Study of Antimicrobial Resistance" by S A Hamed Hosseini. Moving beyond simple market-fa ...

The Mold That Changed Medicine Forever

In September 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from vacation to find a contaminated culture plate — a mold had grown on it, and in a ring around the mold, all the bacteria were dead. Most scientists would have thrown it away. Fleming looked more closely, recognized what he was seeing, and named t ...

Proteins: Elegance in Action - How Structure Drives Function

Proteins possess precise three-dimensional structures in order to function. Using lysozyme and chymotrypsin as examples, we explore protein structure, enzyme catalysis and the extraordinary molecular architecture behind life. We begin with Alexander Fleming’s accidental discovery of lysozyme and ...

Episode #196 – What Wealth Is

Most people misjudge Bitcoin because they have never been given a working definition of wealth. David Deutsch's is the set of transformations you could perform without generating new knowledge, and it explains why a million dollars on a deserted island buys almost nothing, why no fortune in 1924 ...

The Mould That Changed The World: The True Story Behind Penicillin

In 1928, Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming noticed something strange in a contaminated Petri dish at his London laboratory: bacteria would not grow around a patch of mould. The substance responsible, which he named penicillin, would transform medicine, but discovering it was only the beginnin ...

Byproducts: Antibiotics - VEC Vaccine Notes | Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Did you know that the first antibiotic, penicillin, was discovered by happenstance in the 1920s? Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center, touches briefly on this history as she discusses the use of antibiotics; health considerations, including allergic reactions and antibiot ...

How a Blister Killed the President's Son in 1924 (Episode 6 Short)

In 1924 sixteen year old Calvin Coolidge Junior got a blister playing tennis at the White House, and he was dead within a week. The Coolidge Foundation writes that antibiotics could have easily treated it. Four years later, Alexander Fleming found a mold on an unwashed dish. Photographs of Calv ...

What If Penicillin Was Never Discovered? A Blister Could Still Win.

What if penicillin was never discovered? In 1924 the president's sixteen year old son got a blister playing tennis at the White House and was dead within a week. This episode follows Alexander Fleming's unwashed dish, the first Oxford patient in 1941, the woman in New Haven who received half of ...