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Welcome to the science podcast for November 3, 2017. I'm Sarah Crespi.

In this week's show, Jocelyn Kaiser talks with us about a successful gene therapy treatment for a normally fatal neural disease.

Is gene therapy finally coming into its own?

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

Now we have David Grimm, editor for our daily news site.

He's here to talk about some recent online stories.

Welcome, Dave. Thank you, Sarah.

First up, we have a story on tying the Earth's spin to earthquakes. So the Earth's rotation varies, right, Dave? Yeah, actually, you know, we think the world never stops spinning,

but actually it kind of does, well, it doesn't stop, but actually every

once in a while it slows down and may gain a millisecond here or lose a millisecond there.

And these changes actually occur on a fairly regular basis. The weather can change the spin of

the earth. That's one thing I learned from the story. Yeah, the El Nino cycle has an effect,

for example. And what they saw here was a much bigger, longer cycle, and they saw a correlation

with earthquake activity. What did they see correlating with what? Was slow down, speed up? What

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