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Hello, Curios! Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, good whatever time of day you

have to be joining us. We are just popping up into your little podcast

fees to tell you that we are back for a new series of rather film-free.

Which starts next week and will be descending into your inboxes?

What do we do? Into your ears? Yes, they do.

Sure, you're going to descend into those.

And we're going to descend into those. Anyway, as has become traditional over the last

bazillion years, we do a little preview before the main season starts and we

always request that you send in some of the most interesting quirky or

absolutely bananas insane scientific papers from the published literature

that have been peer-reviewed from the body of human knowledge.

Exactly, and you send us a bunch of these.

But you're not let us down.

You're not let us down. These are some of our absolute favourites. You go first.

Oh, okay, all right then. So this is a paper that was sent in by Bill Young,

who is from Arlington, Virginia. And Bill wanted to tell us about,

studied down about ten years ago, about painted lady butterflies.

This should be right up your alley, I don't know, this is a little bit biology.

Now, it's a lovely study here. The problem statement for the experiment was

that they wanted to add edible dye into the food of caterpillars to see how it

would affect the colour of their wings. Would you like to make a guess as to what

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