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Science Magazine Podcast

Top online stories of the year, and revisiting digging donkeys and baby minds

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Podcast

News Commentary, News, Science

4.2 • 791 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

First up this week, Online News Editor David Grimm shares a sampling of stories that hit big with our audience and staff in this year, from corpse-eating pets to the limits of fanning ourselves.   Next, host Sarah Crespi tackles some unfinished business with Producer Kevin McLean. Three former guests talk about where their research has taken them since their first appearances on the podcast.   Erick Lundgren, a researcher at the Centre for Open Science and Research Synthesis at the University of Alberta, revisits his paper on donkeys that dig wells in deserts. Lundgren first appeared on the podcast in April 2021.   Katie Hampson, a professor of infectious disease ecology at the University of Glasgow, discusses where her Tanzanian rabies research has spread. Hampson first appeared on the podcast in April 2022.   Ashley Thomas, an assistant professor of psychology in the Laboratory for Development Studies at Harvard University, talks about why it’s important to plumb the depths of baby minds and the big questions behind her work on children’s understanding of social relationships. Thomas first appeared on the podcast in January 2022.   This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy.   About the Science Podcast   Authors: Sarah Crespi; Kevin McLean; David Grimm

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0:00.0

This podcast is supported by the Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the academic arm of the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, and one of America's leading research medical schools.

0:10.7

What are scientists and clinicians working on to improve medical care and health for women?

0:15.4

Find out in a special supplement to Science magazine prepared by the Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in partnership

0:21.5

with science. Visit our website at www.s.combe at www.combe-science.org and search for Frontiers of Medical

0:27.4

Research-Wedmen's Health. The Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, we find a way.

0:42.7

This is a science podcast for December 20th, 204.

0:43.8

I'm Sarah Cresby.

0:47.0

This is our last episode of the year, 2024.

0:49.6

We will come back on January 3rd.

0:53.2

So first up this week, we have online news editor, David Grimm. He's bringing a sample of stories that hit big with our audience and our staff in 2024.

0:58.7

From corpse-eating pets to the limits of fanning ourselves.

1:02.7

Next, I'm going to tackle some unfinished business with producer Kevin McLean.

1:07.7

We revisit three former guests that came on the show to talk about their research

1:11.9

in past years. They're back to talk about where their research has taken them and answer some of my

1:16.9

questions that I really should have asked back the first time they came.

1:25.7

Every year, online news editor, David Grimm, comes on this show to talk about the top online news stories.

1:32.8

And this actually takes a bit more math, statistics, reading than you might think, right, Dave?

1:40.0

It's a lot more work than you would think, sir.

1:42.2

You're in those web analytics trenches for days to bring us this list.

1:47.2

Wow.

1:49.0

Let's not overdo it.

1:51.1

It's not just hard numbers.

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