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The world is getting increasingly complex, yet our attention spans are getting shorter. Do you wish someone could just explain everything to you as if you were a five-year-old kid? Are you curious about science, philosophy, history, life and the world in general, but don’t know where to start learning everything from scratch?

Welcome to Explain This, where we’ll untangle the complexities of life and the universe, one bite-sized, child-friendly explanation at a time!

59 – Antibiotics – Explain This

What is the REAL story behind penicillin? How do antibiotics treat infections? Should we be worried about superbugs taking over the world?Jin geeks out on one of his favourite medical topics and teaches you about our table-turning super weapons against humanity's bane – bacteria.Relevant XKCD comicAlexander Fleming's original petri dishes showing the effect of penicillinAnatomy of bacteriaBeta-lactam ring structureEmail: [email protected]: https://www.facebook.com/explainthiscastTwitter: https://twitter.com/ExplainThisCastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/explainthiscast/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@explainthiscast 
  1. 59 – Antibiotics
  2. 58 – Flight
  3. 57 – Latitude and Longitude
  4. 56 – Sepsis
  5. 55 – Nuclear Fission
  6. 54 – Western Zodiac
  7. 53 – Tobacco (and why you shouldn't smoke)
  8. 52 – Infinity
  9. 51 – Anaesthesia
  10. 50 – Things We Don't Know

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