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","summary":"When Dr. Chlo\u00e9 Schmidt was a PhD student in Winnepeg, Canada, she was studying wildlife in urban areas. She and her advisor Dr. Colin Garroway came across a 2020 paper that posed a hypothesis: If the echos of systemic racism affect the human residents of neighborhoods and cities, then it should affect the wildlife as well. Short Wave Scientist in Residence Regina G. Barber talks to Chlo\u00e9 and Colin about their findings of how redlining and biodiversity are intertwined.","image":"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2022\/12\/22\/gettyimages-1361102991-f400d08605c9834b3a25aa020449f8b6c601f519.jpg","date_published":"2023-01-09T00:15:49-05:00","date_modified":"2023-01-09T00:16:00-05:00","author":{"name":"Regina G. Barber","url":"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/1082526815\/regina-g-barber?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=science","avatar":"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2022\/07\/12\/regina-barber_vert-5732aca9ec58cc6a68b3500d8f07055766153730.jpg"},"tags":["redlining","urban planning","biodiversity"],"attachments":[{"url":"https:\/\/ondemand.npr.org\/anon.npr-mp3\/npr\/dailyscience\/2023\/01\/20230109_dailyscience_2b3e3bfa-2bdf-43ce-9fb2-39a5dacc4c20.mp3?orgId=1&d=838&story=1144991186&t=podcast&e=1144991186&ft=rss","mime_type":"audio\/mp3","title":"Listen to the Story","duration_in_seconds":838},{"url":"https:\/\/ondemand.npr.org\/npr-mp4\/npr\/dailyscience\/2023\/01\/20230109_dailyscience_2b3e3bfa-2bdf-43ce-9fb2-39a5dacc4c20.mp4?orgId=1&d=838&story=1144991186&t=podcast&e=1144991186&ft=rss","mime_type":"audio\/aac","title":"Listen to the Story","duration_in_seconds":838},{"url":"https:\/\/ondemandhls.npr.org\/nprhls\/\/npr\/dailyscience\/2023\/01\/20230109_dailyscience_2b3e3bfa-2bdf-43ce-9fb2-39a5dacc4c20\/master.m3u8?orgId=1&d=838&story=1144991186&t=podcast&e=1144991186&ft=rss","mime_type":"audio\/m3u8","title":"Listen to the Story","duration_in_seconds":838}]},{"id":"1147685424","url":"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/01\/08\/1147685424\/comet-green-january-e3-ztf-nasa?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=science","title":"A bright green comet may be visible with the naked eye starting later this month","content_html":"Comet C\/2022 E3 was first spotted last year and will draw nearest to the Earth in early February. The brightness of comets tends to be unpredictable, but astronomers say this one is promising. <\/p>
","summary":"Comet C\/2022 E3 was first spotted last year and will draw nearest to the Earth in early February. The brightness of comets tends to be unpredictable, but astronomers say this one is promising.","image":"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2023\/01\/07\/c2022e3_ztf_bartlett800-5397c3b8ffe34c121bee50484ee60addc14486e7.jpg","date_published":"2023-01-08T10:35:22-05:00","author":{"name":"Juliana Kim","url":"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/1108419098\/juliana-kim?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=science","avatar":"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2022\/06\/29\/juliana-kim_vert-53b0b1fdceff73bb6aba05dae08b4e20721dc30e.jpg"}},{"id":"1147372029","url":"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2023\/01\/06\/1147372029\/new-covid-omicron-subvariant-spreading-fast-data?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=science","title":"RSV recedes and flu peaks as a new COVID variant shoots 'up like a rocket'","content_html":"
RSV and the flu appear to be receding in the U.S., but COVID is on the rise, new data suggests, driven by holiday gatherings and an even more transmissible omicron subvariant that has become dominant.<\/p>
","summary":"RSV and the flu appear to be receding in the U.S., but COVID is on the rise, new data suggests, driven by holiday gatherings and an even more transmissible omicron subvariant that has become dominant.","image":"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2023\/01\/06\/gettyimages-1299031409-3a503751d09e2ad885a0ed271dd803ef6197a07f.jpg","date_published":"2023-01-06T17:34:24-05:00","date_modified":"2023-01-06T20:38:00-05:00","author":{"name":"Rob Stein","url":"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/146944972\/rob-stein?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=science","avatar":"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2020\/01\/29\/mmorgan_200122_0462-crop_vert-676be83b4c50bb0997412b88dc246ecefcf6a77a.jpg"},"tags":["RSV","COVID-19","masks","vaccination","CDC","flu shot"],"attachments":[{"url":"https:\/\/ondemand.npr.org\/anon.npr-mp3\/npr\/atc\/2023\/01\/20230106_atc_rsv_recedes_and_flu_peaks_as_a_new_covid_variant_shoots_up_like_a_rocket.mp3?orgId=1&d=257&p=1147540551&story=1147372029&t=progseg&e=1147540551&seg=4&ft=rss&f=1147540551","mime_type":"audio\/mp3","title":"Listen to the Story","duration_in_seconds":257},{"url":"https:\/\/ondemand.npr.org\/npr-mp4\/npr\/atc\/2023\/01\/20230106_atc_rsv_recedes_and_flu_peaks_as_a_new_covid_variant_shoots_up_like_a_rocket.mp4?orgId=1&d=257&p=1147540551&story=1147372029&t=progseg&e=1147540551&seg=4&ft=rss&f=1147540551","mime_type":"audio\/aac","title":"Listen to the Story","duration_in_seconds":257},{"url":"https:\/\/ondemandhls.npr.org\/nprhls\/\/npr\/atc\/2023\/01\/20230106_atc_rsv_recedes_and_flu_peaks_as_a_new_covid_variant_shoots_up_like_a_rocket\/master.m3u8?orgId=1&d=257&p=1147540551&story=1147372029&t=progseg&e=1147540551&seg=4&ft=rss&f=1147540551","mime_type":"audio\/m3u8","title":"Listen to the Story","duration_in_seconds":257}]},{"id":"1147513068","url":"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2023\/01\/06\/1147513068\/fda-alzheimers-drug-leqembi-lecanemab-accelerated-approval?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=science","title":"FDA approves Alzheimer's drug that appears to modestly slow disease","content_html":"
An Alzheimer's drug that removes the substance amyloid from the brain has received a conditional approval from the FDA. A large study found the drug decreased the loss of thinking and memory by 27%.<\/p>
","summary":"An Alzheimer's drug that removes the substance amyloid from the brain has received a conditional approval from the FDA. A large study found the drug decreased the loss of thinking and memory by 27%.","image":"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2023\/01\/06\/ap23003595802037-11cf5f12258bae29a038cce2c0b301bf1a09db45.jpg","date_published":"2023-01-06T16:05:48-05:00","date_modified":"2023-01-07T09:50:00-05:00","author":{"name":"Jon Hamilton","url":"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/2100615\/jon-hamilton?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=science","avatar":"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2011\/12\/30\/johnhamilton_3_vert-b54205b7f652f83f14734200f47698c419e38fdf.jpg"},"tags":["leqembi","lecanemab","FDA drug approval","Alzheimer's research","FDA","Alzheimer's disease"],"attachments":[{"url":"https:\/\/ondemand.npr.org\/anon.npr-mp3\/npr\/wesat\/2023\/01\/20230107_wesat_alzheimers_drug.mp3?orgId=1&d=241&p=1147678817&story=1147513068&t=progseg&e=1147678817&seg=14&ft=rss&f=1147678817","mime_type":"audio\/mp3","title":"Listen to the Story","duration_in_seconds":241},{"url":"https:\/\/ondemand.npr.org\/npr-mp4\/npr\/wesat\/2023\/01\/20230107_wesat_alzheimers_drug.mp4?orgId=1&d=241&p=1147678817&story=1147513068&t=progseg&e=1147678817&seg=14&ft=rss&f=1147678817","mime_type":"audio\/aac","title":"Listen to the Story","duration_in_seconds":241},{"url":"https:\/\/ondemandhls.npr.org\/nprhls\/\/npr\/wesat\/2023\/01\/20230107_wesat_alzheimers_drug\/master.m3u8?orgId=1&d=241&p=1147678817&story=1147513068&t=progseg&e=1147678817&seg=14&ft=rss&f=1147678817","mime_type":"audio\/m3u8","title":"Listen to the Story","duration_in_seconds":241}]},{"id":"1146963688","url":"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/01\/04\/1146963688\/an-atmospheric-river-runs-through-it?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=science","title":"An Atmospheric River Runs Through It","content_html":"
From space, it looks almost elegant: a narrow plume cascading off the Pacific Ocean, spilling gently over the California coast. But from the ground, it looks like trouble: flash flooding, landslides and power outages. California is enduring the effects of an atmospheric river, a meteorological phenomenon where converging air systems funnel wet air into a long, riverine flow that dumps large amounts of rain when it makes landfall. \"Atmospheric rivers can transport volumes of water many times that of the Mississippi River,\" says Dr. Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with UCLA, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and the Nature Conservancy of California. Daniel joined Short Wave's Aaron Scott to explain where these \"rivers\" of air come from, how climate change is fueling more of them, and why you're a lot more likely to have heard of them if you happen to live on the west coast of almost any continent. <\/p>
","summary":"From space, it looks almost elegant: a narrow plume cascading off the Pacific Ocean, spilling gently over the California coast. But from the ground, it looks like trouble: flash flooding, landslides and power outages. California is enduring the effects of an atmospheric river, a meteorological phenomenon where converging air systems funnel wet air into a long, riverine flow that dumps large amounts of rain when it makes landfall. \"Atmospheric rivers can transport volumes of water many times that of the Mississippi River,\" says Dr. Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with UCLA, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and the Nature Conservancy of California. Daniel joined Short Wave's Aaron Scott to explain where these \"rivers\" of air come from, how climate change is fueling more of them, and why you're a lot more likely to have heard of them if you happen to live on the west coast of almost any continent.","image":"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2023\/01\/04\/full-1130-20230041900_goes18-abi-fd-geocolor-5424x5424-023f2f084c28d2c86531819d762c498d9d0c5543.jpeg","date_published":"2023-01-06T00:15:02-05:00","author":{"name":"Aaron Scott","url":"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/1082524708\/aaron-scott?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=science","avatar":"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2022\/09\/30\/aaron-scott_vert-a561b2c8318f39f37cad792e37f26d6ac6e4786e.jpg"},"tags":["atmospheric river","Pacific Ocean","CAlifornia"],"attachments":[{"url":"https:\/\/ondemand.npr.org\/anon.npr-mp3\/npr\/dailyscience\/2023\/01\/20230106_dailyscience_000be0a6-f622-48a7-adbe-c01a0ac0b509.mp3?orgId=1&d=735&story=1146963688&t=podcast&e=1146963688&ft=rss","mime_type":"audio\/mp3","title":"Listen to the Story","duration_in_seconds":735},{"url":"https:\/\/ondemand.npr.org\/npr-mp4\/npr\/dailyscience\/2023\/01\/20230106_dailyscience_000be0a6-f622-48a7-adbe-c01a0ac0b509.mp4?orgId=1&d=735&story=1146963688&t=podcast&e=1146963688&ft=rss","mime_type":"audio\/aac","title":"Listen to the Story","duration_in_seconds":735},{"url":"https:\/\/ondemandhls.npr.org\/nprhls\/\/npr\/dailyscience\/2023\/01\/20230106_dailyscience_000be0a6-f622-48a7-adbe-c01a0ac0b509\/master.m3u8?orgId=1&d=735&story=1146963688&t=podcast&e=1146963688&ft=rss","mime_type":"audio\/m3u8","title":"Listen to the Story","duration_in_seconds":735}]},{"id":"1146886275","url":"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/01\/04\/1146886275\/the-period-talk-for-adults?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=science","title":"The Period Talk (For Adults)","content_html":"
Every month, 1.8 billion people menstruate globally. For those people, managing periods is essential for strong reproductive and emotional health, social wellbeing and bodily autonomy. But a lot of people haven't been educated about periods or the menstrual cycle since they were kids \u2014 if at all.This episode, a period manual in four parts: How periods work, the different stages of the menstrual cycle, how to know when something's wrong, and whether to have a period in the first place. <\/p>
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Climate goals can feel distant. But climate change is happening right now. Speed up the benefits for taking action, psychologists say, if you want leaders and others to pay attention and act.<\/p>
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","summary":"Are humans ever satisfied? Two social psychologists, Ethan Ludwin-Peery and Adam Mastroianni, fell down a research rabbit hole accidentally answering a version of this very question. After conducting several studies, the pair found that when asked how things could be different, people tend to give one kind of answer, regardless of how the question is asked or how good life felt when they were asked. Short Wave's Scientist in Residence Regina G. Barber digs into the research\u2014and how it might reveal a fundamental law of psychology about human satisfaction.","image":"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2023\/01\/12\/gettyimages-1397973635-64a5204316769bc7f15618decc822a21f7e54547.jpg","date_published":"2023-01-13T00:10:57-05:00","date_modified":"2023-01-13T00:11:00-05:00","author":{"name":"Regina G. Barber","url":"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/1082526815\/regina-g-barber?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=science","avatar":"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2022\/07\/12\/regina-barber_vert-5732aca9ec58cc6a68b3500d8f07055766153730.jpg"},"tags":["human psychology","scientific inquiry","scientific discovery","social psychology","dissatisfication"],"attachments":[{"url":"https:\/\/ondemand.npr.org\/anon.npr-mp3\/npr\/dailyscience\/2023\/01\/20230113_dailyscience_8f2fc9da-ba0a-49f6-a42c-bb2bbb0a719d.mp3?orgId=1&d=770&story=1148845276&t=podcast&e=1148845276&ft=rss","mime_type":"audio\/mp3","title":"Listen to the Episode","duration_in_seconds":770},{"url":"https:\/\/ondemand.npr.org\/npr-mp4\/npr\/dailyscience\/2023\/01\/20230113_dailyscience_8f2fc9da-ba0a-49f6-a42c-bb2bbb0a719d.mp4?orgId=1&d=770&story=1148845276&t=podcast&e=1148845276&ft=rss","mime_type":"audio\/aac","title":"Listen to the Episode","duration_in_seconds":770},{"url":"https:\/\/ondemandhls.npr.org\/nprhls\/\/npr\/dailyscience\/2023\/01\/20230113_dailyscience_8f2fc9da-ba0a-49f6-a42c-bb2bbb0a719d\/master.m3u8?orgId=1&d=770&story=1148845276&t=podcast&e=1148845276&ft=rss","mime_type":"audio\/m3u8","title":"Listen to the Episode","duration_in_seconds":770}]},{"id":"1148376084","url":"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/01\/12\/1148376084\/exxon-climate-predictions-were-accurate-decades-ago-still-it-sowed-doubt?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=science","title":"Exxon climate predictions were accurate decades ago. Still it sowed doubt","content_html":"
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