29 April, 2020 – Episode 771 – How to Read Tree Rings

What is in the This Week in Science Podcast?

Interview w/ Dr. Valerie Trouet on Tree Story, COVID-19 Update, Matriarchal Neanderthals?, Viral Bee Behavior, Spider Combs!, Underwater Bones, Core Conundrum, Dope Shrews, Toothy Teenagers, Swimming Spinosaurus, City Found, Danger Place, And Much More…

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There is a bee shortage in America…

When a bee stings somebody it’s stinger falls off and the bee dies…

So why not glue them back on so the bee doesn’t die?

Then we would have plenty of bees again.

When a child comes up with a solution to a problem, it’s adorable.

And no matter how silly that solution may be,

we can encourage that child to keep coming up with creative ideas…

It’s a form of curiosity and a sign of self motivated learning

When the leader of a nation

with a million people afflicted with a respiratory virus

With over 60,000 dead already

Believes that, after months of access to doctors, researchers and experts in disease control…

Suggests that maybe injecting disinfectants into the lungs

or massively irradiating people with ultraviolet light could help…

It is not adorable.

It shows a lack of curiosity in the basics of how a human body works.

Let alone anything he could have learned by listening to and asking questions

of the experts at his disposal.

This is a form of narcissistic ignorance and is the sign of an incompetent idiot

With less than a high-school biology student’s understanding of the human body.

I’m sorry, less than junior high understanding even…

Thankfully…

the idiot is not actually in control of the country’s research.

And as the researchers continue to rely on scientific method

There is a treatment at the end of the tunnel