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Hi, Benjamin from the Nature podcast here.

We're coming to the end of the year.

And as has become something of a tradition around these parts,

this is the time where we like to take a look back at some of the stories we covered in the podcast over the last 12 months.

In this special clip show, members of the team will be picking out a piece they made in 2021 that really stood out to them and telling us why they enjoyed making it.

You'll hear stories about an AI that argues, a journey through COVID's unequal toll in California,

and the story of a researcher eavesdropping on an arctic glacier.

Before them though, Charmany Bundell's up with her choice.

So the favourite story that I've picked from 2021 is the one about a brain interface that was used to type out thoughts.

And I always love how sci-fi, these kind of things, sound,

and the field of brain-computer interfaces is just fascinating the fact that you can

get a machine to sort of translate the thoughts in your head into something digital is amazing. And in this particular

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