Tune in to learn about how fire-breathing creatures are possible, what makes a bad breaker-upper, and new blazing fast, cheap, and accurate COVID tests.

Dragons could be real.

• “House Of The Dragon: Yes, fire-breathing animals could really exist” by Stephen Kelly
  • https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/house-of-dragon-fire-breathing/
• “What Does Science Say About Flying and Fire Breathing Dragons?” by Anne Marie Helmenstine
  • https://www.thoughtco.com/the-science-behind-flying-and-fire-breathing-dragons-4163130#:~:text=After%20all%2C%20a%20flying%2C%20fire,found%20in%20the%20wild%20today

Break up with someone the right way.

• “Study finds “ghosting” short-term partners is associated with psychopathy and Machiavellianism” by Emily Manis
  • https://www.psypost.org/2022/04/study-finds-ghosting-short-term-partners-is-associated-with-psychopathy-and-machiavellianism-62982
• “Dark Triad” by Psychology Today
  • https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/dark-triad

Speed meets accuracy with covid tests.

• UT Dallas Researchers Develop Accurate Rapid Test for Viruses by University of Texas at Dallas
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/950413
• COVID-19 and PCR Testing by Cleveland Clinic
  • https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diagnostics/21462-covid-19-and-pcr-testing
• Digital Plasmonic Nanobubble Detection for Rapid and Ultrasensitive Virus Diagnostics by Yaning Lui, et al.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29025-w

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