Podcast: A farewell to <i>Science</i>’s editor-in-chief, how mosquito spit makes us sick, and bears that use human shields

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Podcast

News, News Commentary, Science

4.3 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Listen to how mosquito spit helps make us sick, mother bears protect their young with human shields, and blind cave fish could teach us a thing or two about psychiatric disease, with Online News Editor Catherine Matacic. Marcia McNutt looks back on her time as Science’s editor-in-chief, her many natural disaster–related editorials, and looks forward to her next stint as president of the National Academy of Sciences, with host Sarah Crespi. [Music: Jeffrey Cook; Image: Siegfried Klaus] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.4	I'm Sarah Crespi.
0:47.8	In this week's show, outgoing science editor-in-chief, Marcia McNutt,
0:52.0	talks about her time at the magazine,
0:54.0	and what's next for her as the president of the National Academy of Sciences.
0:58.4	And Catherine Mattisick is here with a roundup of stories from our daily news site.
1:05.8	Now we have Catherine Mattisick and editor for our online daily news site.
1:09.9	She's here to talk about some recent
1:11.3	stories. First, we have a story on mosquito bites. When mosquitoes bite, they are injecting us
1:18.8	with their saliva while drinking our blood. Yeah. Just a tiny amount of material passes from the
1:25.2	bugs to us, but unfortunately, it's not just spit.
1:29.6	What else is in there, Catherine?
1:31.4	All sorts of good stuff.
1:33.1	A numbing agent that makes us unaware of the bite.
1:36.1	Blood thinners that make our blood easier for the mosquito to suck up.
1:40.3	And then there are the diseases, everything from malaria to dengue to Zika.
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