Fly Propaganda

Today's bonus episode features the full interview with Dr. Christina May, who shares her thoughts on the wonders of working with flies, and a peek into the effect of sugar on the brain. Creator & Host: Houda Khaled Links to the papers: High Dietary Sugar Reshapes Sweet Taste to Promote Feeding Behavior in Drosophila melanogasterDietary sugar inhibits satiation by decreasing the central processing of sweet tasteMusic by Blue Dot Sessions (⁠⁠www.sessions.blue⁠⁠):Castor Wheel PivotGriddleKakeFull transcript at: ⁠https://frivolousscience.substack.com/ *Correction: The human brain has closer to ~100 billion neurons, rather than a trillion - Dr. May's initial guess. Still orders of magnitude more than the ~100K in a fly!*