Science on Top 49 - Drunk, Lonely Fruit Flies
This episode was a week late, as fate and events outside our control forced us to abandon recording last week. But we soldiered on this last Thursday just passed, sansLucas, who'll be taking an extended break from the show. The old crew one again!
DIRECT LINK TO THE mp3 FILE; 45:39
We talked about male fruit flies turning to booze in the face of sexual rejection (yes, it actually happens), a pre-Cambrian fossil found with a skeleton, how the Russians want to dominate space (again), astronauts going blind, a new salt-tolerant strain of wheat, and why giant squids likely have such bloody enormous eyes.
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In other news, GUESS WHO'S GOING TO SEE DAVID FUCKING ATTENBOROUGH IN AUGUST! Oh yeah.
DIRECT LINK TO THE mp3 FILE; 45:39
We talked about male fruit flies turning to booze in the face of sexual rejection (yes, it actually happens), a pre-Cambrian fossil found with a skeleton, how the Russians want to dominate space (again), astronauts going blind, a new salt-tolerant strain of wheat, and why giant squids likely have such bloody enormous eyes.
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In other news, GUESS WHO'S GOING TO SEE DAVID FUCKING ATTENBOROUGH IN AUGUST! Oh yeah.