GETTING CURIOUS | Are Cicadas Partying Like It’s 2004? with Dr. Jessica Ware

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 26 May 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Grab your Ugg boots and mini skirts and give three cheers for each of Carly Patterson's Olympic medals because this week on Getting Curious, 2004 is back in style. As billions of Brood X cicadas start to emerge across the eastern United States after 17 years, we’re re-releasing our episode from last summer with Dr. Jessica Ware, all about these trending insects. Dr. Ware is a curator of Odonata and non-Holometabolous insect orders at the American Museum of Natural History, New York and a professor at the Richard Gilder Graduate School. You can follow Dr. Ware (and her amazing cicada coverage!) on Twitter @JessicaLWareLab and Instagram @jessicaleeware42. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Van Ness, and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation, but it's never 40 minutes anymore, and I can't help it because I got so many questions.
0:09.0	With a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious. This week we are
0:14.0	re-airing a very special episode with one of my very favorite people in the world
0:17.6	Dr Jessica Ware from June 2020 where I ask her, are Cicadas partying like it's 2004
0:25.9	Welcome to getting curious. This is Jonathan Van Ness. I'm so excited for today's episode. There is a lot to digest and a lot to process in the world and sometimes you just need to get into that
0:37.2	science so you can just like keep learning but just give yourself a bit of variety.
0:43.7	So with that being said, welcome Dr. Jessica Ware.
0:46.8	You are an entomologist and evolutionary biologist.
0:50.3	You're a creator of the Odenata and non-Hala metabolist insect orders at the American Museum of Natural History, New York,
0:58.0	and professor at the Richard Gilder graduate school.
1:02.0	And this is also, I I just think one of the most
1:03.9	amazing things is you're the also the VP elect of the entomological society of
1:09.1	America and the president of the Worldwide Dragon Association. You got credits on credits with a side of credits
1:16.0	all in Capslock, like with some other pretty funds too.
1:19.0	So thank you so much for taking your time to come talk to us,
1:21.0	Dr. Jessica, where?
1:22.8	Thank you for having me.
1:25.0	I gotta say, if you call me and ask me to talk about Dragon Pfizer Insects,
1:29.2	I will be there in five seconds,
1:30.7	because I think talking about Insects is one of the best and most fun past times.
1:36.2	So I'm ready, I'm excited.
1:38.2	Oh, I can't wait.
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