Building a martian analog on Earth, and moral outrage on social media

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🗓️ 19 August 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Contributing Correspondent Michael Price joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the newest Mars analog to be built on the location of the first attempt at a large-scale sealed habitat, Biosphere 2 in Arizona. Next, William Brady, a postdoctoral researcher in the psychology department at Yale University, talks with Sarah about using an algorithm to measure increasing expressions of moral outrage on social media platforms. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. About the Science Podcast Listen to previous podcasts. Download a transcript (PDF). [Image: Kai Staats; Music: Jeffrey Cook] [Alt text: lettuce plants being tended in a Mars analog] [Caption: Lettuce plants being tended in a Mars analog] Authors: Sarah Crespi; Mike Price Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:22.5	Welcome to the science podcast for August 20th, 2021. I'm Sarah Crespi. Each week, we feature the most interesting
1:29.3	news and research published in science and the sister journals. First up this week, science writer
1:34.6	of Mike Price discusses the newest effort at creating a Mars-like living situation here on Earth.
1:40.7	Next, researcher William Brady talks about his science advances paper on how moral outrage may be amplified by social media platforms like Twitter.
1:53.3	Now we have science writer Mike Price. He wrote a story this week on the newest effort at creating a Mars-like living situation here on Earth at the
2:02.3	site of the first place to attempt a large-scale sealed habitat, biosphere 2 in Arizona. Hi, Mike.
2:10.5	Hi, how are doing, Sarah? I'm good. I want to go seal myself into a biosphere, but other than that, I'm good.
2:16.9	It's definitely a, the kind of
2:19.3	structure for our current moment. Yeah. There's a lot of history at this place, Biosphere 2.
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