Podcast: Bringing back tomato flavor genes, linking pollution and dementia, and when giant otters roamed Earth

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Podcast

News, News Commentary, Science

4.3 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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This week, we chat about 50-kilogram otters that once stalked southern China, using baseball stats to show how jet lag puts players off their game, and a growing link between pollution and dementia, with Online News Editor David Grimm. Also in this week’s show: our very first monthly book segment. In the inaugural segment, Jen Golbeck interviews Helen Pilcher about her new book Bring Back the King: The New Science of De-extinction. Plus Denise Tieman joins Alexa Billow to discuss the genes behind tomato flavor, or lack thereof. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: Dutodom; Music: Jeffrey Cook] 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,
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1:19.7	Welcome to the science podcast for January 27, 2017.
1:21.2	I'm Sarah Crespi.
1:26.2	In this week's show, we have the first in our new series of interviews with science book authors.
1:31.1	In the inaugural segment, Jen Goldbeck interviews Helen Pilger, author of a new book,
1:34.6	Bring Back the King, on the Science of Deextinction.
1:41.3	Today's team in joins Alexa Bilo to discuss genes behind tomato flavor, or lack thereof, and David Grimm is here with a roundup of stories from our daily news site.
1:50.6	Now we have David Grimm, editor for our daily news site. He's here to talk about some recent
1:55.5	online stories. I'm Sarah Crespi. First up, we have a story on when otters ruled the earth.
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