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Welcome to the science podcast for March 29, 2019. I'm Megan Cantwell. In this week's show, I speak with Krista Lazzare about what may be behind a string of mysterious horse injuries at the Santa Anita racetrack in Southern California.

And Sarah Cresby talks with online editor Catherine Mattisic about the negative downstream effects of cash bail and what research can tell us about other options for the

pretrial justice system in the U.S. For our monthly book segment, books editor Valerie Thompson

talks with author Robin Metcalfe about her book, Food Routes, Growing Bananas in Iceland,

and other tales from the logistics of eating. You may be familiar with the tale of Seabiscuit, a champion racehorse in the 1940s who

raced on the Santa Anita racetracks in Southern California.

That famous course is currently under hot water for a string of unexplained horse injuries

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