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Hey, welcome to Inquiring Minds. I'm Andrey Viscontas.

This is a podcast that explores a space where science and society collide.

We want to find out what's true, what's left to discover, and why it matters.

This is an episode that we like to call up to date.

And joining me is our correspondent Adam Bristol. Welcome back,

Adam. Hey, Andre, I'm ready to talk some science. Excellent. So it's the middle of summer.

And for people who probably are living anywhere other than San Francisco, where we're just shrouded

in a cloud of fog, you might be experiencing warm summer days and even nights.

And perhaps there is one thing that annoys you. Well, certainly in my hometown of Toronto,

I know that there are tons of mosquitoes and I hate them. I hate mosquitoes too.

Adam grew up in upstate New York, so he is no stranger to Aegis Egypti. Or is it Agis

Egypti? I've never tried to pronounce those things because I hate him. Yeah, our kids basically

never get mosquito bites, which I find to be so strange as childhood. Yeah, not yet. We just kind of

live with them and dealt with them and they were just a fact of life.

And growing up here, our kids are amazingly, basically like mosquito-free for the entire summer.

Although, you know, our six-year-old already hates mosquitoes.

Like, he's experienced them once in his life and he's like petrified whenever there's a,

anything that looks like a mosquito in his room. It's like petrified whenever there's a anything that looks like a

mosquito in his room. It's like we have to call out the National Guard. Yeah, but that might be

somewhat reflected off of us, right? Because we are conveying to him through social learning,

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