Podcast: A recipe for clean and tasty drinking water, a gauge on rapidly rising seas, and fake flowers that can fool the most discerning insects

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🗓️ 25 February 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Online News Editor Catherine Matacic shares stories on what we can learn from 6million years of climate data, how to make lifelike orchids with 3D printing, and crowdsourced gender bias on eBay. Fernando Rosario-Ortiz joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how approaches to water purification differ between countries. [Image: Eric Hunt/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0]0] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.6	Thank you. and quote science podcast to receive special offers. Welcome to the science podcast for February 26, 2016. I'm Sarah Crespi. In this week's show,
0:49.7	Fernando Rosario Ortiz talks about the best way to keep drinking water clean. And Catherine
0:55.9	Mattisick is here, stories from our online daily news site.
1:03.7	Support for the science podcast is provided by AAAS, the American Association for the
1:09.0	Advancement of Science.
1:18.5	Now we have Catherine Mattisick. She's here to talk about some recent online news stories.
1:25.3	I'm Sarah Cresby. First up, we have a story on fast rising seas. This is actually a really big story. Four papers came out this week on the link between climate and sea level, using everything
1:31.1	from tiny tidal critters to historical records to kilometer-long cores.
1:37.4	Let's start with the critters.
1:39.0	We're going to talk about also known as forams.
1:42.2	How can they tell us about past sea levels and their links with climate?
1:46.7	4Ms are tiny amoeba-like creatures that make hard shells out of calcium carbonate and live at the
1:52.1	bottom of the sea. Most of them prefer salt water, but some like freshwater, and some go for a
1:57.2	combination of both. And because of their shells, they fossilize really easily.
2:01.6	So researchers going back through the fossil record can tell from their shells what species they were and what kind of water they preferred.
2:09.6	If they look at enough of them, they can get a pretty good idea of where past oceans were located and how high those waters got.
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