A Stone Age skull cult, rogue Parkinson’s proteins in the gut, and controversial pesticides linked to bee deaths

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News, News Commentary, Science

4.3 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This week we have stories on what the rogue Parkinson’s protein is doing in the gut, how chimps outmuscle humans, and evidence for an ancient skull cult with Online News Editor David Grimm. Jen Golbeck is back with this month’s book segment. She interviews Alan Alda about his new book on science communication: If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? Sarah Crespi talks to Jeremy Kerr about two huge studies that take a nuanced looked at the relationship between pesticides and bees. Read the research in Science: Country-specific effects of neonicotinoid pesticides on honey bees and wild bees, B.A. Woodcock et al. Chronic exposure to neonicotinoids reduces honey bee health near corn crops, Tsvetkov et al. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: webted/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.5	Welcome to the science podcast for June 30, 2017. I'm Sarah Crespi.
1:05.9	In this week's show, Jeremy Kerr talks about two new studies that take a nuanced look into a certain type of pesticide
1:13.2	that may be contributing to the global decline in bees.
1:17.2	For our monthly book segment, Jen Goldbeck talks with Alan Alda about his new book on communicating science.
1:24.0	And David Grimm is here to give us this week's hits from our online news site.
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1:38.1	First up, we have a story on rogue proteins and Parkinson's disease.
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