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Welcome to the science podcast for June 9, 2017.

I'm Sarah Crespi.

And this week's show, A.L. Ben David, talks about a selfish gene pair, one a toxin and the other in anadone that have been masquerading as genes important for development.

What does this mean about what we think of essential genes and about how we make species?

Rachel Bernstein is here to talk about recent science careers columns,

and Ryan Cross is here with online news.

Now we have Ryan Cross, an intern for our daily news site.

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

First up, we have one on racism and the police in the United States.

Video has changed the national conversation on policing in this country.

We've seen beatings and killings of black people again and again. And the assumption is these incidents are racially motivated,

but it's really hard to pin that down. You can't ask people who are on trial if race had

something to do with it. You really want something a little bit more quantitative, a little bit more authoritative. So here, researchers in California have tried to do this. What did they do, Ryan?

Well, a team from Stanford University decided to tackle a more subtle form of racial bias that begins long before any of these acts of violence. So they wondered if police

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