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Welcome to the Science Podcast for October 31st, 2014.

I'm Sarah Crespi.

In this week's show, we have David Grimm up first with some online daily news stories, and then we hear from Ayelet Gnizzi on changing attitudes towards charitable giving.

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Now we have David Grimm. He's the editor for our online daily news site, and he's here to share some recent stories.

I'm Sarah Crespi. First up, we have a story on viruses that leap

between species. As the names indicate, we can catch avian flu from birds and swine flu from pigs.

What about organisms a little further away on the evolutionary tree? A new study proposes we can

catch a virus from algae. So, Dave,

how did this come up in the first place? Well, a few years ago, researchers started detecting a virus called

ATCV1, which is usually found in a species of green algae that lives in lakes and rivers. They

were finding this virus in brain tissue of people

that had died. And they weren't sure why, and they didn't really sort of pay too much attention

to it at the time. And then a few years later, scientists did a survey of microbes and viruses

that live in the throats of people with psychiatric disease, and this virus showed up again.

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