Episode 1: Should You Lick the Subway Pole?

Join your amazing host Neha Maskey (along with Chris Dong, Devki Welt, Ethan Samuel Lin, Neil Sarkar, and Nina Shin) in our first episode as we discuss the microbiome of the metro system, hypothetical baby hunger games, proper hand sanitizer usage, and more! Read the SIGMA article that inspired this discussion in the upcoming SIGMA Edition 14 (to be released on our website).

Clarifications: At 4:42, it was said that 12% of the bacteria swabbed was pathogenic, but it was only 12% of a small subset of the 52% of identified bacteria that was found to be pathogenic (source).

Sources:

• https://www.cell.com/pb/assets/raw/journals/research/cell-systems/do-not-delete/CELS1_FINAL.pdf
• https://www.cdc.gov/anthrax/basics/index.html
• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181212135027.htm
• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07631-x
• https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/08/02/635017716/some-bacteria-are-becoming-more-tolerant-of-hand-sanitizers-study-finds
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4295542/

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All music credits go to Justin Leung.