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🗓️ 13 April 2018
⏱️ 19 minutes
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0:00.0 | It's Friday, April 13th, 2018, and you're listening to Inquiring Minds. |
0:06.1 | I'm Kishore Hari. |
0:07.8 | Welcome to another installment of up-to-date, our weekly recap of Science News. |
0:12.6 | This week, we're going to try something a little bit different, a mini interview. |
0:16.9 | I'm very active on Twitter. |
0:18.8 | For all of its faults and problems, I deeply enjoy that small |
0:22.3 | corner that is science Twitter. And one of the reasons I enjoy it are the bizarre hashtags that |
0:28.4 | emerge. A couple years ago, we had overly honest methods, a humorous peek into how science |
0:34.2 | really gets done in the lab. But last year brought probably my favorite. It's called |
0:39.8 | Does It Fart? A simple question about whether snakes fart turned into hundreds and hundreds |
0:46.1 | of questions and answers across the animal kingdom. And two of the scientists involved in that hashtag |
0:52.5 | have now turned all of that information into a book. |
0:56.7 | Danny Rabiotti is a PhD student at the Zoological Society of London, and Nick Caruso is a postdoc at Virginia Tech in the Fish and Wildlife Department. |
1:05.8 | Together, they teamed up with artist Ethan Kosek to release the new book, Does It Fart? Which takes you on a wild, weird |
1:14.2 | journey through the Animal Kingdom, answering some of those basic questions on whether it does |
1:20.1 | fart or not. So, enjoy whether or not animals fart. Danny and Nick, welcome to inquiring minds. Hey, thanks for having us. |
1:30.4 | This might be the first science book that was born from a Twitter hashtag. Can you talk about |
1:36.0 | the process of this book coming together? So actually, I think first out, we should probably say |
1:41.5 | this is definitely at least the second book to come out of a Twitter hashtag. |
1:45.7 | The first one was Fieldwork Fail, which was published by Jim Jordane. |
1:49.8 | And that is a fantastic book as well. |
1:51.8 | But I think this is the first one that's had as wide an appeal or at least as wide a media coverage. |
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