7 May, 2025 – Episode 1014 – Science! You Get What You Pay For!

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This Week: Tiny Life, Human Fungus, Honeyguides, Survey Says, Vaccines and Menstruation, Art with Porpoise, Cuttlefish, Shrimp, Brain Computer Interface, Neanderthals, Tiny Town, On Being, and Much More Science!

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The following hour of programming contains scientific material

While currently still legal at the time of this recording,

Who even knows anymore!

Regardless of what weirdness is yet to come

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Quick Science News!

Tiny Life?
What is alive even anyway?

Human Gut 
Liver fungus

Honeyguides 
With a score to settle

Survey Says!
People like science, but what about the weather?

Menstrual Patterns
Do vaccines change menstrual patterns

Art With Porpoise
How can ancient poems help us understand ecological history?

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Blair’s Animal Corner!

Cuttlefish
Waving cuttlefish say hey, or maybe they don’t

Shrimp Carbon
Where shrimp get their carbon, and it isn’t where you think

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Some Stories with Justin!

Brain computer 
Computer interface

Striking Neanderthals
Middle Paleolithic stone tool technology

Brainy stories with Kiki!

Tiny Town
How do we learn to navigate our world?

On Being
How does consciousness work? Do we even know?

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