It's Monday, February 25th, 2019, and you're listening to Inquiring Minds.

I'm Andrei Viscontas.

And I'm Kishar Hari.

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So this episode is a version of our up-to-date where we talk about the signs and the news that caught our eye.

So what caught your eye this week? Sure.

Well, do you want the good news or the bad news?

I'm always bad news first.

Okay. Well, bad news first. Let's talk about 2020.

And no, I'm not going to talk about politics for once. There's a big survey that takes place in 2020. Do you know what I'm referring to?

Census? Yeah, that's right. The census happens in 2020. And this is important because we do the census for a lot of reasons. We do it for a lot of electoral reasons here in the U.S., but we also functionally do it just to understand how many

people are physically here in the United States. And that drives a lot of our public policy

in terms of like services we order at services we we we sort of

provide in certain areas our understanding of how the country is changing over time it has a huge

impact but let me ask you this when do you think the last time is that we surveyed non-humans

in a census-like environment, specifically insects.

Never? Yeah, that's pretty much true. You might have seen a lot of news outlets report in the last

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