Performing magic for animals, and why the pandemic is pushing people out of prisons

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🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Staff Writer Kelly Servick joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how jail and prison populations in the United States have dropped in the face of coronavirus and what kinds of scientific questions about public health and criminal justice are arising as a result. Also this week, Elias García-Pelegrín, a Ph.D. student at the University of Cambridge, talks with Sarah about his article on watching animals watch magic tricks. Do animals fall for the same illusions we do? What does it say about the way their minds work? This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast Download a transcript (PDF). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast is supported by the Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, one of America's leading research medical schools.
0:07.8	Icon Mount Sinai is the academic arm of the eight hospital Mount Sinai health system in New York City.
0:13.9	It's consistently among the top recipients of NIH funding.
0:18.0	Researchers at Icon Mount Sinai have made breakthrough discoveries in many fields vital
0:22.8	to advancing the health of patients, including cancer, COVID and long COVID, cardiology,
0:29.3	neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. The Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,
0:34.5	we find a way.
0:48.8	Welcome to the science podcast for September 18, 2020. I'm Sarah Crespi. Each week, we feature the most interesting news and research published in science and the sister journals. First up, we have
0:54.0	staff writer Kelly Servic.
0:55.7	We talk about a pandemic-inspired effort to shrink jail and prison populations in the United States.
1:03.0	And I talk with Eli Garcia-Pellegrin about how performing magic for animals can give insight into how their minds work.
1:14.3	The novel coronavirus and prison is a dangerous combination.
1:18.9	In the United States, 120,000 cases have been detected in prisons, and 1,000 incarcerated
1:25.2	people have died so far.
1:27.9	These deaths and the danger of more have driven prison and jail reforms that have been long delayed.
1:33.9	Staff writer, Kelly Servic, is here to talk about decarceration in the U.S.
1:38.7	What is happening, how researchers are weighing in on the process, and how it's affecting public safety and health.
1:46.6	Hi, Kelly.
1:47.4	Hi, Sarah.
1:48.2	The U.S. is unusual, not just in the large number of coronavirus cases that we've had, but also in the size of its incarcerated population.
1:59.6	How does the United States compare with other countries in
2:03.3	this respect? So the U.S. is sort of the leader in terms of mass incarceration, unfortunately.
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