An elegy for Arecibo, and how our environments may change our behavior

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🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Science Senior Correspondent Daniel Clery regales host Sarah Crespi with tales about the most important work to come from 57 years of research at the now-defunct Arecibo Observatory and plans for the future of the site. Sarah also talks with Toman Barsbai, an associate professor in the school of economics at the University of Bristol, about the influence of ecology on human behavior—can we figure out how many of our behaviors are related to the different environments where we live? Barsbai and colleagues took on this question by comparing behaviors around finding food, reproduction, and social hierarchy in three groups of animals living in the same places: foraging humans, nonhuman mammals, and birds. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast Download a transcript (PDF). [Image: University of Central Florida; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Authors: Sarah Crespi; Daniel Clery Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.7	Welcome to the science podcast for January 15th, 2021.
1:03.3	I'm Sarah Crespi.
1:08.0	Each week we feature the most interesting news and research, published in science and the sister journals.
1:09.3	First up this week, senior news correspondent Daniel Cleary talks with me about the past,
1:14.5	the present, and future of the Arecibo Observatory.
1:17.7	I also talk with researcher Tomin-Barsby about the influence of ecology on human behavior.
1:23.8	Do people, like other animals, change their behavior in response to the local environment?
1:31.7	Now we have senior correspondent Daniel Clary.
1:34.8	We're going to talk about what's happened to the Erecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and any plans for the future of the site.
1:41.6	Hi, Dan.
1:42.4	Hi.
1:43.1	So, Erecebo, we've been calling this a post-mortem, which is pretty depressing.
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