The origins of biodiversity in the Amazon and a daily news roundup

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Science Podcast

News, News Commentary, Science

4.3 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2015

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Lizzie Wade discusses whether the amazing biodiversity of the Amazon Basin was the result of massive flooding, or the uplift of the Andes mountain range. David Grimm talks about microbes aboard the International Space Station, the fate of juvenile giant ground sloths during the Pleistocene, and singing classes as social glue. Hosted by Susanne Bard. [Img: ©Jason Houston] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.9	Welcome to the science podcast for October 30th, 2015.
0:46.7	I'm Suzanne Bard.
0:51.8	In this week's show, David Grimm shares some of the most interesting online news stories, and then we hear from science correspondent Lizzie
0:55.0	Wade about the origins of the incredible biodiversity in the Amazon basin.
1:03.0	Support for the Science Podcast is provided by AAAS, the American Association for the Advancement
1:08.0	of Science, advancing science, engineering, and innovation throughout
1:12.1	the world for the benefit of all people.
1:14.9	AAAAS, the Science Society.
1:18.6	Now we have David Grimm, editor for our daily news site.
1:22.7	He's here to talk about some recent online stories.
1:25.6	I'm Suzanne Bard.
1:27.0	In the media, life and space is often
1:29.5	depicted aboard gleaming futuristic spacecraft, with occupants wearing perfectly tailored fashions,
1:36.5	suiting the galactic explorers of the future. But life aboard the International Space Station
1:42.3	is much more, shall we say, rustic.
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