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Welcome to the Science Podcast for June 2nd, 2017.

I'm Sarah Crespi.

In this week's show, John Travis joins us to talk about post-operative cognitive decline.

Does undergoing surgery sap brain power?

And David Grimm is here with a roundup of stories from the Daily News Site.

Now we have David Grimm, editor for our daily news site.

He's here to talk about some recent online stories.

First up, we have a story on the taste of water.

I was actually really surprised by a lot of aspects of the study, but the biggest one is that I never thought about how water doesn't fit into this five basic taste types.

Do you know what the five tastes are, Sarah?

I wrote it down, but you go ahead.

Tell me off the top of your head.

Salty, sour, sweet, bitter, and umami.

Umami.

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