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welcome to the cotkey ride home for Thursday, February 4th, 2021.

I'm Jackson Bird.

We were bracing for a flu and COVID double whammy of winter, but it never came.

What happened?

An intriguing new community initiative taking off in Europe to help prevent the mounting

problem of electronic waste.

And have you heard of fetus core?

Okay, it's not a thing yet, but it may be soon because there's a new album coming out

that was recorded by a baby before she was born.

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

So remember midway through last year when we were all bracing ourselves for a harsh winter,

in part because flu season was coming, and the one-two punch

of the flu and COVID-19 had the potential to be catastrophic. Well, the winter has been harsh,

but not because of the flu. In fact, the flu has barely shown its face at all. After preparing

their own influenza test to mitigate an anticipated

spike, Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, has now run 20,000 flu tests, many more than in previous

seasons, and exactly zero have come back positive. Other labs have reported similar. The Mayo Clinic in Arizona tested

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