Can't Match The Beat? Then You Can't Woo A Cockatoo

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🗓️ 22 September 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Today on the show, All Things Considered co-host Mary Louise Kelly joins Regina G. Barber and Maria Godoy for our bi-weekly science roundup. They talk through some of the latest eye-catching science news, including the percussion-intensive mating life of cockatoos, what pink diamonds today tell us about the breakup of the ancient supercontinent Nuna and the latest on the Nipah outbreak in India.

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0:19.6	Hey Shortwaveers, Regina Barber here, and me, Maria Gidoy.
0:23.0	And I'm Mary Louise Kelly.
0:25.2	Mary Louise, thank you so much for stepping away from hosting all things considered to chat
0:29.2	about some of the most recent science headlines that are grabbing our attention over here at
0:33.4	Shortwave.
0:34.4	My total pleasure to be here, although I wish I were not here to learn about this virus
0:38.4	outbreak.
0:39.4	We're going to talk about an outbreak of the NEPA virus in Kerala, India.
0:43.1	Yeah, we also are going to learn about mysterious pink diamonds in Australia and what they're
0:47.2	telling us today about what happened on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago.
0:51.9	And my favorite, how cockaties woo their lovers and set the mood by moonlighting as drummers.
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