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Welcome to the Kotkeye ride home for Wednesday, February 24th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird.

How the flu you had as a kid could shape your immune response to future flu viruses.

A bunch of videos have been going viral showing snowballs not melting when held up against a flame.

But it's not a conspiracy, it's science.

And the first song produced using the audio recorded on Mars.

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

New research published last week in the journal PLOS Pathogens indicates that the flu

viruses we were exposed to as children could impact how our immune system responds to future

infections. But not all flu viruses respond to each other in the same way, and also it's not just about

antibodies. So remember the swine flu in 2009? It's often regarded as having been way overblown. And I mean,

sure, compared to now, it seems like it wasn't a huge deal, but I distinctly remember it. I was in college at the time and we had a whole block of apartments set aside as a quarantine

zone because even on the tiny campus I attended, we had several cases of students who got

sick.

And that wasn't that extraordinary.

College campuses were hit hard because more than half of all swine flu cases were people under the age of 24.

The 1918 pandemic also skewed towards younger patients.

Conversely, COVID-19, though not across the board, has been skewing towards older populations.

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