Calculating the social cost of carbon, and listening to mole-rat chirps

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🗓️ 28 January 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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On its first day, the new Biden administration announced plans to recalculate the social cost of carbon—a way of estimating the economic toll of greenhouse gases. Staff Writer Paul Voosen and host Sarah Crespi discuss why this value is so important and how it will be determined. Next up, Alison Barker, a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, talks with Sarah about the sounds of naked mole-rats. You may already know naked mole-rats are pain and cancer resistant—but did you know these eusocial mammals make little chirps to identify themselves as colony members? Can these learned local dialects make naked mole-rats a new research model for language learning? This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast Download a transcript (PDF). [Image: Smithsonian’s National Zoo/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Authors: Sarah Crespi; Paul Voosen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:30.9	Welcome to the Science podcast for January 29, 2021. I'm Sarah Crespi. Each week, we feature the most interesting news and research published in science and the sister journals. First up this week, the new Biden administration announced on day one it has plans to recalculate the social cost of carbon.
1:37.7	It's basically a way of estimating the economic toll of greenhouse gases produced today on future generations.
1:43.1	Staff writer Paul Voussin discusses why this value is so important and how it will be determined.
1:48.1	Next up, researcher Alison Barker talks about the sounds of naked mole rats.
1:53.1	You may already know that these amazing mammals are pain and cancer resistant, but did you know that they make these little chirps to identify themselves as members of their colony?
2:03.6	As a new administration comes into power in the United States,
2:06.6	we're seeing some swift changes in certain scientific areas,
2:10.6	rejoining the WHO, the Paris Climate Agreement,
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