As a nice follow-up to last week's GMO episode, Levi explains the process of Clustered Regularly Inter-spaced Short Palindromic Repeats (or CRISPR for short). Matt then runs us through numerology, where he assigns Levi a "name number" that dictates his personality... Or does it?

Show notes for CRISPR

CRISPR Timeline - https://www.broadinstitute.org/what-broad/areas-focus/project-spotlight/crispr-timeline

Live Science article on CRISPR - https://www.livescience.com/58790-crispr-explained.html

Gif showing CRISPR CAS9 in action - https://www.livescience.com/60938-a-breathtaking-new-gif-shows-crispr-chewing-up-dna.html

TED Ed video on CRISPR - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tw_JVz_IEc

WIRED Video on CRISPR explained in 5 levels of complexity - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sweN8d4_MUg

Diagram of CRISPR in action - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR#/media/File:Crispr.png

Song about CRISPR CAS9 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k99bMtg4zRk

Show notes for Numerology

Bobby McFerrin video

https://youtu.be/Hodp2esSV9E

“Secrets of Numerology”

http://www.2012-spiritual-growth-prophecies.com/numerology-meanings.html

Pythagorean Numerology Name Number Calculator

https://www.dcode.fr/pythagorean-numerology

Jastrow Scientific Monthly Article

https://www.dcode.fr/pythagorean-numerology

Numberphile

https://www.youtube.com/user/numberphile

Schimmel, Annemarie (1993). The Mystery of Numbers. ISBN 0195089197.

Lynne Kelly (2004). The Skeptic's Guide To The Paranormal. ISBN 1-74114-059-5.