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All right, business out of the way. I want to welcome my guest today who just so happens to be one of my best friends but he is also

a science communicator by the name of Dr. Jason G. Goldman.

He writes the Thoughtful Animal blog for Scientific American, the uniquely human column at

BBC Future, and he contributes to I.09.com, Conservation conservation magazine and he's also had pieces published

in Slate Washington Post, Salon, and Nautilus magazine. This guy is a very

prolific writer and I bet you if you've read any articles about animal behavior or animal cognition recently

He probably wrote one of them. Hey, thanks so much for being here. I'm very happy to be here. Yeah this is going to be a lot of fun. So there's a lot of stuff going on in the news that I want to talk about. Hopefully we won't get too off track or maybe we will that's fun too but one of the big stories that I

actually talked about on the show that I was working on take part live on pivot

this week was this

insect that was discovered where the females have a penis and the males have a

vagina which is I think kind of confusing to a lot of people because we often think of the of

kind of the go-nads, you know, the external sexual organs or internal sexual organs even

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