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Welcome to another edition of Cool Stuff Ride Home, Marcus Paff with Reggie Rizzou, and on today's

episode, can an organism,

as simple as bacteria, really anticipate seasonal changes? Weird Wednesday has an expensive dime,

odd room service request, interesting items found in hotels, and a message in a bottle birthday

wish come true. And on this day in history, well, the history of dialysis. Let's come

up on cool stuff. Well, turning now to research out of the John Innis Center, as summarized by

Science Daily, bacteria used their internal 24-hour clocks to anticipate the arrival of new seasons.

This, according to research, carried out with the assistance of the old ice bucket challenge.

There's a blast from the past for you.

Now, this discovery may have profound implications for understanding the role that sarcadian rhythms,

that's the molecular version of a clock, play in adapting species to climate change,

from migrating animals to flowering plants.

The team behind the findings gave populations of blue-green algae or cyanobacteria different

artificial day length at a constant warm temperature.

Samples on plates received either short days, equinox days, equal light and dark, or long days,

for eight days.

Now after this treatment, the blue-green algae were plunged into ice for two

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