SciShow | The Surprising Truth About Subway Microbes

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Episode Title: The Surprising Truth About Subway Microbes
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Description: Skillshare is offering SciShow viewers two months of unlimited access to Skillshare for free! Try it here: https://skl.sh/scishow-15 You might guess that big city subways would be filled with all sorts of nasty pathogens just waiting to infect the nearest unsuspecting human, but science doesn’t back this up at all. Hosted by: Olivia Gordon SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2015/02/researchers-produce-first-map-of-new-york-city-subway-system-microbes-christopher-mason https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/06/nyregion/among-the-new-york-city-subways-millions-of-riders-a-study-finds-many-mystery-microbes.html https://www.wired.com/2015/02/mapping-microbes-new-york-city-subway/ https://www.cell.com/cell-systems/fulltext/S2405-4712(15)00014-9 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405471215000149?via%3Dihub http://www.cell.com/pb/assets/raw/journals/research/cell-systems/do-not-delete/CELS1_FINAL.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5011910/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1477893909000933 https://www.foodsafety.gov/poisoning/causes/bacteriaviruses/bcereus/index.html ---------- Images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IRT_BMT_South_Ferry_-_Whitehall_st_Station.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NYCT_South_Ferry_Platform.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_Ferry_Subway_Station_(8141549798).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_Ferry_Subway_Station_(8141517967).jpg


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