The science stories you missed over the past four weeks
Nature Podcast
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🗓️ 11 January 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Nature Podcast, we catch up on some science stories from the holiday period by diving into the Nature Briefing.
We’ll hear: how Brazil’s President Lula has started to make good on his pro-environment promises; a new theory for why giant ichthyosaurs congregated in one place; how glass frogs hide their blood; about a new statue honouring Henrietta Lacks; and why T. rex might have cooed like a dove.
Nature News: Will Brazil’s President Lula keep his climate promises?
Science News: Mysterious ichthyosaur graveyard may have been a breeding ground
The Atlantic: How Glass Frogs Weave the World’s Best Invisibility Cloak
BBC News: Statue of Henrietta Lacks will replace Robert E Lee
Books & Arts: The woman behind HeLa
Editorial: Henrietta Lacks: science must right a historical wrong
News: Wealthy funder pays reparations for use of HeLa cells
BBC Futures: What did dinosaurs sound like?
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| 1:10.0 | Hi, Benjamin here. Welcome to the Nature podcast. As we feel our way into the new year, we're going to repeat something we did this time last year. And that is to take a bit of a dive into some of the stories that have appeared in the nature briefing over the past days and weeks. And joining me once again to do so are Noah |
| 1:29.4 | Baker. Noah, welcome. Thank you very much. Lovely to be here as ever. And senior editor of the |
| 1:33.8 | nature briefing and a voice that will be familiar to many people who listen to the Nature podcast, |
| 1:37.5 | and that is, of course, Flora Graham. Flora, thanks for stopping by. My pleasure. Happy New Year. |
| 1:42.1 | Well, we've got a few stories that we're going to cover |
| 1:44.3 | in this show. And Flora, you're going up first. And we'll begin with a significant story and a timely one. |
| 1:51.5 | And that is the climate pledges of Brazil's new president, Louise Inacio Lula de Silva, or Lula, as he's commonly known. |
| 1:59.1 | Yeah, this is an election that, of course, was followed by |
| 2:02.4 | scientists around the globe because the leadership of Brazil holds in their hand, you know, |
| 2:08.2 | one of the biggest sinks of global carbon emissions in the world, not to mention global |
| 2:13.0 | biodiversity, which is the Brazilian Amazon. And the new president made a lot of environmental |
| 2:18.3 | base promises while running. And I think that his win is seen by many as a hopeful step forward |
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