Podcast: Breaking the 2-hour marathon barrier, storing data in DNA, and how past civilizations shaped the Amazon

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Science Podcast

News, News Commentary, Science

4.3 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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This week, we chat about the science behind breaking the 2-hour marathon barrier, storing data in DNA strands, and a dinosaur’s zigzagging backbones with Online News Editor Catherine Matacic. And Carolina Levis joins Alexa Billow to discuss evidence that humans have been domesticating the Amazon’s plants a lot longer than previously thought. Read Carolina Levis’s research in Science. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: Carolina Levis; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:22.2	Welcome to the science podcast for March 3rd, 2017. I'm Sarah Cresby. In this week's show,
1:29.3	Karolina Levice joins Alexa Billo to talk about when exactly humans started managing plants in Amazon.
1:34.2	And Catherine Mattisick is here with a roundup of stories from the Daily News site.
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1:59.1	Now we have Catherine Mattisick, an editor for our daily news site.
2:00.9	She's here to talk about some recent online stories. First up, we have a story on breaking the two-hour marathon barrier. I have to admit,
2:07.8	I went into this, you know, reading this story, not knowing how long, even ballpark it might
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