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Star Date: 2007.03.22.2200
Show Topics:
Warmest Winter Ever. Cleaning up the air has helped the warming of the Earth, and for our second climate irony of the show, a cooler climate may have made our brains bigger, and we’re warming it back up! Also, there are new global maps of biodiversity and carbon dioxide emissions, and this year will be particularly bad for pollen allergies, too.
Plenty of bee-autiful science, a new bee-powered poison alert system, and a new study on Vitellogenin shows how evolution has co-opted a reproductive gene to govern the division of labor in hives.
the Battle for Humanity, genetically engineered mosquitoes resistant to malaria will quickly spread throughout the population, spiders are snuggling, and the path of human ancestors 100-200k years ago, root beer is the kindest soda to your teeth, Playstation IIIs turned into a supercomputer, and you may have heard of dry ice, but Hot Ice?
Theme = Independence Day by David Arnold.
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