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Today you learn about how we might get rid of mosquitoes in the future, with author Tim

Weingard.

Then you'll learn about the one sea on earth with no coastline

and the story of a Russian surgeon who removed his own appendix.

Would satisfy some curiosity.

What should we do about mosquitoes?

Today's guest has some ideas.

Dr. Tim Weingard is a professor of history and political science at Colorado Mesa University

and author of the new book, The Mosquito, a human history of our deadliest predator.

Yesterday you heard him talk about some of the ways mosquitoes have had a major impact on human history.

So why did it take us so long to actually do something about them?

It's been only really the last little more than 100 years where we have en masse the culprit

that is the mosquito.

So you know the late 1800s early 1900, depending on the disease that's vector from Larrity

yellow fever, we figure out that it is a mosquito, and then we can start our counterattacks

against the mosquito and those diseases if you will.

So really where we had a breakthrough is with DDT.

DDT obviously it has some severe environmental ramifications on other animals, including the health

of humans.

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