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Welcome to the Science Podcast for September 29th, 2017.

I'm Sarah Crespi.

In this week's show, newswriter Jocelyn Kaiser talks about the pre-print puzzle, publishing research without peer review.

For this month's book segment,

Jen Goldbeck talks with Sandra Postel about replenish the virtuous cycle of water and prosperity.

And David Grimm gives us this week's hits from our online news site.

Now we have David Grimm, editor for our online daily news site. He's here via phone to talk about some recent online stories. Welcome, Dave. Hey, sir. Okay, let's get right to it. Let's quickly

get to very fast heartbeats in bats. This piece, the story opens with a really

kind of surprising description of the life of a bat. I had no idea that they had it so tough.

So, Dave, what is a bat face when it goes out looking for food? Well, you know, this concerns

a particular species of bat in Panama,

and I'm probably going to mingle the name. The scientific name is Euroderma, billow bottom bats,

and these are kind of mouse-sized bats. They build tense out of giant leaves, but they also live

their lives on the edge of starvation, and what that means is they basically survive on fig juice, but they're also flying all night

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