21 April, 2021 – Episode 821 – Putting Science in the Light

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Making Chimeras, Bad Humans, Forgotten Coffee, Interview w/ Dr. Greg Gbur on Light and Invisibility, COVID Dogs, Beetle Pee, Snake Venom, Honey Fallout, Slow Rex, Glancing Gaze, Traveling Tarantulas, Shift Work Woes, And Much More…

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Nothing is in the way of the world

doing all the right things to prevent the climate emergency

that is looming over our planetary future like a dark…

foreshadowing…

cloud of…

dystopian gloom,

ready to burst with thunderous metaphors.

The sort of mechanisms used to alert a reader to the danger to come in a story.

Only this isn’t fiction, and instead of literary props that hint at action ahead

We have scientific papers that spell out the threats,

the causes, the solutions, the consequences and outcomes in great detail…

If you watch the news these days, you won’t hear anything about it.

The story has no arc, no reveal…

to ratings appeal.

It’s just spoiler alert after spoiler alert…

Like a who done it, where the real killer is revealed on the first page.

A mystery twist movie

where the big secret is revealed in the trailer, and the title gives away the inevitable end.

And so, with nothing left to the imagination.

Nothing left to interest or entertain.