Tinder for Cheetahs; and an Unusual Blindness
Science Talk
Scientific American
4.2 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:55.8 | a little later on in this episode of Science Talk. Stay tuned. |
| 1:03.3 | I'm Tanya Lewis, the assistant news editor at Scientific American. |
| 1:07.1 | And I'm Andrea Garleski, the collections editor. |
| 1:09.4 | And on this episode of Science Talk, |
| 1:11.1 | we preview a new Scientific American podcast where we talk about some of the stories we've loved |
| 1:15.4 | from this month's issue in the section called advances. Tanya, can you tell all the listeners |
| 1:19.8 | what the advances section is and what it covers in the magazine? Sure. So advances is basically, |
| 1:26.5 | you know, our front of the book news section where we |
| 1:28.7 | cover cutting edge advances and discoveries and feels ranging from technology to health to neuroscience |
| 1:34.3 | and many others. Great. So what is on tap for today? For today's episode, we've got a story about how |
| 1:40.2 | cheetahs choose mates based on the smell of their urine and a story about a woman who has a rare visual condition where she can only see moving objects |
| 1:48.8 | and colors. |
| 1:49.8 | Wild. |
| 1:50.4 | Let's dive in. |
| 1:52.9 | Believe it or not, that's the sound made by a full-grown cheetah. |
| 1:56.1 | And our first topic is a story called Tinder for Cheetahs by Joshua Rap Learn. It's about an innovative |
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