Podcast: When good lions go bad, listening to meteor crashes, and how humans learn to change the world

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Science Podcast

News, News Commentary, Science

4.3 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This week, meteors’ hiss may come from radio waves, pigeons that build on the wings of those that came before, and a potential answer to the century-old mystery of what turned two lions into people eaters with Online News Editor David Grimm. Elise Amel joins Julia Rosen to discuss the role of evolution and psychology in humans’ ability to overcome norms and change the world, as part of a special issue on conservation this week in Science. Listen to previous podcasts. Download the show transcript Transcripts courtesy Scribie.com [Image: bjdlzx/iStockphoto; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:21.3	I'm Sarah Crespi.
1:25.4	In this week's show, Elise Amel joins Julia Rosen to talk about why changing our behavior collectively is so challenging.
1:30.7	And David Grimm is here with a roundup of stories from the online news site.
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