Episode #1052
News Items
- Sexless Seeds
- Spouses Share Psychiatric Disorders
- CRISPR Improvement
- Robotic Bee
- Tin Man Syndrome Retracted
- Super Wood
Quickie with Bob
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-technosignatures-interstellar.html
Taxing Deductions
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Science
Large whales build up ear wax in layers, forming rings which can be used to estimate their age. https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/marine-mammals/whale-earwax-what-you-can-learn-strange-collections
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Item #2
Fiction
The blue whale has the largest brain, in absolute terms, of any animal to have ever lived. https://whalescientists.com/the-award-for-the-largest-brain-in-the-world-goes-to/
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Item #3
Science
Otters have pouches near their forearms which they use to store rocks to use as tools, sometimes keeping a favorite tool for years. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1927187101115643
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
‘If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything.’ Ronald Coase