Why whales get beached

Unexplainable

Vox

Life Sciences, Science, Natural Sciences

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Every year, thousands of marine mammals end up trapped on beaches, but it’s often hard to figure out why. It’s even harder to figure out how much humans are to blame. For more, go to http://vox.com/unexplainable It’s a great place to sign up for our newsletter, view show transcripts, and read more about the topics on our show. Also, email us! unexplainable@vox.com We read every email. Support Unexplainable by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for this week's episode of Unexplainable comes from UC San Diego.
0:05.0	UC San Diego is working with artificial intelligence to try to get
0:08.6	closer to answering some enormous challenges.
0:11.7	Whether they're using AI to inform the development of complicated
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0:19.5	researchers at UC San Diego want to help move us forward,
0:23.1	improve our communities, and shape our future.
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1:21.2	It's unexplainable, I'm no, I'm hasn't felt.
1:23.6	A few months ago, I called up one of our listeners.
1:26.1	Hi there, nice to meet you.
1:28.1	Pal Guevara is a college student in Yucatan, Mexico,
1:31.0	who wrote in with an idea for an episode.
1:33.5	A while back, a single whale beached around here,
1:36.7	and hearing that whole story made me really interested
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