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slash UK slash AI for people. Hi, I'm Scientific American podcast editor Steve Murski, and here's a little

unfinished 2019 business, a short piece from the December issue of the

magazine in the section called advances, dispatches from the frontiers of science, technology, and

medicine.

The article is titled Quick Hits, and it's a rundown of some science and technology stories

from around the globe, compiled by assistant

news editor Sarah Lewin-Frasier. From Spain, summer's powerful drought revealed a more than

4,000-year-old oval of at least 100 standing stones called the Dolman of Guadalparal, which

had been submerged since 1963 in an engineered reservoir.

From Russia, scientists identified a small group of Nordman's green shanks, among the most endangered

shorebirds, in a bog in Russia's far eastern region. They helmed the first in-depth study of the

birds since 1976, and are the first

ever to capture a photograph of an adult on a nest. From New Zealand, researchers found that

humpback whales traveling near Raul Island, 700 miles off New Zealand's coast, learned songs from

members of other breeding grounds.

From Indonesia, climate models have firmly connected a record-setting cold European summer in 1816 to the previous year's eruption of Indonesia's Mount Tambora, which injected sulfur dioxide

into the atmosphere and caused widespread surface cooling.

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