Bring Me Chocolate Or Bring Me Dead Stuff

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🗓️ 12 February 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Happy Valentine's Day from Short Wave! We've got something special for the holiday, Maddie and Emily exchange the gift of science facts - from the process of farming and fermenting cacao to the courtship rituals of scorpions and loggerhead shrikes.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:04.8	Hey everybody, Emily Quang here.
0:07.9	And Maddie Sophia.
0:08.9	There's a lot going on this time of year, but first of all, shout out to my fellow Asians
0:13.4	celebrating Lunar New Year.
0:15.0	And also this weekend, some of you may be celebrating Valentine's Day and I thought,
0:21.9	we could celebrate with the little Valentine's Day FACT exchange, a gift exchange but with
0:27.8	facts.
0:28.8	Yes, there is nothing more romantic than scientific facts.
0:32.6	People are saying that all the time, Quang.
0:34.6	Yeah, and to stick with the Valentine's Day theme, I brought Maddie some facts about
0:39.2	chocolate as much a masterpiece of farming as it is fermentation.
0:44.4	And I have some facts about courtship in the animal kingdom, moves that make our human
0:49.3	game honestly look kind of weak.
0:51.7	So today on the show, a love filled fact exchange between me and Maddie.
0:56.4	This is Shortwave, the daily science love cast from NPR.
1:03.4	Alright, Emily Quang, lay some of that chocolatey goodness on me.
1:14.0	You got it.
1:15.0	Because chocolate is the true meaning of Valentine's Day.
1:18.7	Only a chocolate this pure can be this self.
1:22.7	Quang, you know I love you, but I'm glad to have some tolerance.
1:25.7	Why are you doing this to me?
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