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Welcome to the Kotky Ride Home for Friday, October 23rd, 2020.

I'm Jackson Bird.

Do Venus flytraps have a short-term memory?

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A bar in Seattle that has made a pandemic safe pinball machine.

And Burger King is getting in on the zero-waste game with reusable containers.

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

Further evidence has emerged that the Venus Flytrap has something akin to a short-term memory.

Because it wouldn't be Halloween without learning about the potential sentience of a carnivorous plant.

Scientists have long known that the Venus flytrap possesses some type of mechanism

to determine whether the object they've captured is indeed prey to be dined upon or something

inedible. And something like a short-term memory has been tossed around as a hypothesis in the past,

but a recent study published in the journal Nature has shed more light on the idea.

But first, a quick overview of how the plant captures its food.

The Venus flytrap attracts prey with its fruity scent, or by performing a haunting R&B number

and a soulful baritone asking its prey to feed me. And when it's prey, usually an insect, not a skid row

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