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Fri. 07/29 - Shark Attacks, Moon Caves, & Murder Hornets

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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How likely are you really to get bit by a shark and do some of those cliché comparisons still hold up as waters warm and shark sightings seem to be on the rise? Plus, future lunar explorers could enjoy year round sweater weather in moon caves. And murder hornets are getting a new name. Sponsors: Kolide, Got Slack? Got Macs? Get Kolide: Device security that fixes challenging problems by messaging your users on Slack. Try Kolide Today! https://l.kolide.co/3aVdR90  Indeed, Get a free $75 credit PLUS earn up to $500 extra in sponsored job credits with Indeed’s Virtual Interviews at Indeed.com/goodnews Links: Sharks vs. vending machines: Which kills more people yearly? (Slate) Sharks Are Spotted Off Long Island. Scientists Say Don’t Panic. (NY Times) Here's What's More Likely to Happen to You Than Winning the Mega Millions (Gizmodo) Strange Moon Pits Could Have Temperatures Comfortable Enough For Humans to Live In (ScienceAlert) UCLA scientists discover places on the moon where it’s always ‘sweater weather’ (UCLA) NASA’s LRO Finds Lunar Pits Harbor Comfortable Temperatures (NASA) Congress Sneaks NASA Authorization Bill Into CHIPS, Approves Moon-to-Mars Program (Gizmodo) Why murder hornets are getting a new name (National Geographic) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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it's friday july 29th twenty 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. How likely are you really to get bit by a shark?

0:45.2

And do some of those cliche comparisons still hold up as waters warm and shark sightings seem to be on the rise.

0:53.6

Plus, future lunar explorers could enjoy year-round

0:57.7

sweater weather in moon caves, and murder hornets are getting a new name. Here's some cool

1:05.4

stuff for your ride home. Shark Week is in full swing, and apparently the sharks here in the New York City area

1:16.0

got the memo, as my go-to beach keeps getting shut down due to shark sightings. Janet Fash,

1:23.3

who's worked as chief lifeguard at that beach for over three decades, says there have been more

1:28.7

sightings in recent years, at least by her reckoning, and not just of sharks, but also dolphins,

1:34.4

whales, and stingrays. She attributes it to the warmer water. And while there were two reports

1:41.3

of non-fatal shark attacks on the same day recently on Long Island,

1:45.8

field scientists say they don't believe there has actually been an increase in shark sightings

1:51.2

in recent years. They say it's just that more people are looking for them and more people have

1:56.6

smartphones and drone cameras with which to capture footage of them. And in fact, Christopher

2:02.3

Papparo, a naturalist who manages a marine lab at Stony Brook University, told the New York

2:07.2

Times that if there are more sharks in the area, that's a good thing. It shows they're recovering

2:13.3

from pollution and overfishing that reduced the global shark population by 70% since 1970.

2:21.4

Paparro also reminded the times that people are more likely to be killed in a car crash

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