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Science Magazine Podcast

Potty training cows, and sardines swimming into an ecological trap

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Podcast

News, News Commentary, Science

4.3842 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the health and environmental benefits of potty training cows. Next, Peter Teske, a professor in the department of zoology at the University of Johannesburg, joins us to talk about his Science Advances paper on origins of the sardine run—a massive annual fish migration off the coast of South Africa. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. [Image: Steven Benjamin; Music: Jeffrey Cook] [Alt text: sardines in a swirling bait ball] Authors: Sarah Crespi; David Grimm See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Morgan State University, a Baltimore, Maryland Carnegie R2 doctoral research institution,

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offers more than 100 academic programs and awards degrees at the Baccliorate, Masters, and Doctoral Levels,

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is furthering their mission of growing the future leading the world.

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Morgan continues to address the needs and challenges of the modern urban environment.

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With a four-year quadrupling of research, more than a dozen new doctoral programs,

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and eight new National Centers of Excellence, Morgan is positioned to achieve Carnegie R1 designation in the next five years.

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To learn more about Morgan and their ascension to R1, visit morgan.edu slash research.

0:40.5

This podcast is supported by the Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, one of America's leading research medical schools.

0:48.1

Icon Mount Sinai is the academic arm of the eight hospital Mount Sinai health system in New York City.

0:55.7

It's consistently among the top recipients of NIH funding. Researchers at ICONMount Sinai have made breakthrough discoveries in

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many fields vital to advancing the health of patients, including cancer, COVID and long COVID,

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cardiology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.

1:12.6

The icon school of medicine at Mount Sinai, we find a way.

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Welcome to the science podcast for September 17, 2021. I'm Sarah Crespi.

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Each week, we feature the most interesting news and research published in science and the sister journals. First up this week, online news

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editor, David Grimm, joins us to discuss why researchers are potty training cows. After that, we have

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researcher Peter Teske. He's here to talk about the drivers of what could be the biggest animal migration on earth,

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the sardine run off the coast of South Africa.

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Now we have online news editor, David Grimm.

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He's here to talk about potty training cows. Hi, Dave.

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Hey, Sarah. All right, we're already laughing, but it's not silly. It's serious. Why would we need to

2:08.2

tell cows where to go? Well, cows, as you may have seen or heard, make a lot of waste.

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