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This week on Vsauce2 Mind Blow: Mussels with ridiculous distance, some science education under a fluorescent microscope, and: has science finally come up with a hangover cure?

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BENEFACTORS
Xemboy01
Chillustrations

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Brent Tiggelaar, Wolfgang Hutton, NullBlox.ZachryWilsn, Jonathan Hawk, Markus Fleischer, Thomas Kaminski, Ian Fabs

** SOURCES **

Fishing for hosts: Larval spurting by the endangered thick-shelled river mussel, Unio crassus (0:00)
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wil...

A low-cost smartphone fluorescence microscope for research, life science education, and STEM outreach (0:43)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...
Instructions for how to build it: https://static-content.springer.com/e...

Optical tweezers throw and catch single atoms (1:32)
https://opg.optica.org/optica/viewmed...

FGF21 counteracts alcohol intoxication by activating the noradrenergic nervous system (3:21)
https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/...

A self-healing electrically conductive organogel composite (4:14)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4192...

Magical practices? A non-normative Roman imperial cremation at Sagalassos (4:59)
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa...

Nuts For Nintendo - 20/20, 1988 (5:49)
   • NUTS FOR NINTENDO special on ABC news...  

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