How Hollywood Gets Seances Wrong
Learn about how bacteria in your gut can produce electricity. Then, performer and lecturer Thom Britton will tell us about the origins of seances and how Hollywood gets them wrong.
Some Bacteria in Your Gut Produce Electricity by Cameron Duke
- Specktor, B. (2020, September 18). Scientists find \u201csecret molecule\u201d that allows bacteria to exhale electricity. Livescience.Com; Live Science. https://www.livescience.com/electron-breathing-geobacter-microbes.html
- Chabert, N., Amin Ali, O., & Achouak, W. (2015). All ecosystems potentially host electrogenic bacteria. Bioelectrochemistry, 106, 88\u201396. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioelechem.2015.07.004
- Light, S. H., Su, L., Rivera-Lugo, R., Cornejo, J. A., Louie, A., Iavarone, A. T., Ajo-Franklin, C. M., & Portnoy, D. A. (2018). A flavin-based extracellular electron transfer mechanism in diverse Gram-positive bacteria. Nature, 562(7725), 140\u2013144. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0498-z
- Sanders, R. (2018, September 12). Gut bacteria\u2019s shocking secret: They produce electricity. Berkeley News. https://news.berkeley.edu/2018/09/12/gut-bacterias-shocking-secret-they-produce-electricity/
- Yasemin Saplakoglu. (2018, September 13). The Bacteria in Your Gut Produce Electricity. Livescience.Com; Live Science. https://www.livescience.com/63569-gut-bacteria-produces-electricity.html
More resources from performer Thom Britton:
- The Seance: https://www.weplaywiththedead.com/
- Thom Britton's website: https://freakshowtell.com/thombritton
- Thom's one-man show, FreakShow & Tell: https://freakshowtell.com/
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