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Welcome to the good news ride home for Tuesday, August 4th, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird.

Recording today at the peak of the storm from Hurricane Isayas here in New York City.

So if you hear any wind gusts or anything in the background, apologies, I would wait for it to pass, but with how many trees

have fallen down around my block, I'm not so confident I'm going to have power or internet

later, so we're just going to power through. But today, cool armor-like technology that

butterflies have on their wings to protect them from rain, how to use

slack without annoying all of your coworkers or being annoyed yourself, and what the 1918 pandemic

anti-mask culture can teach us about our own mask debates today. Here are some cool things from the news today.

If you are also in or near the path of Hurricane Isayas, you are probably being hit

with some wicked rain and wind right now and taking care to make sure your home is protected

if you can or getting totally pummeled by rain if you're able to and have to go out.

Well, it's too bad you're not a butterfly.

Apparently, butterfly wings are built like armor to protect them against heavy rain.

A June study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences analyzed how water-repellant

properties on the butterfly's wings protect them against rain's impacts. Quoting fizz.org,

the research showed how microscale bumps combined with a nanoscale layer of wax shatter

and spread these drops to protect fragile surfaces from physical damage and

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