It's Friday, January 8th, 2016, and you're listening to Inquiring Minds.

I'm Injavis Gantis.

And I'm Kishore Hari.

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slash inquiring minds. We're going to start 2016 with a little bit of a different show. We're going to give

you our preview of the science we think is going to be most prominently come to the forefront in

2016 with a look back at some of the themes that we saw emerged in 2015.

And that's going to cover a lot of different domains and spectrums.

And probably we may not agree on all the results that are going to come out of it.

Wait, you and me?

Yeah, you and me.

Or all of our listeners.

Probably all of the above. So hopefully we're going to tease some different stories that you're going to hear on inquiring

minds in the future with interviews with experts in these fields.

And I'm really thrilled for 2016 because it feels like there's some pretty big news that

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