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Blowhole Origins, Weather Manipulation, How to Slow Aging


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Learn about how brushing your teeth can slow aging; how blowholes start as noses; and how humans manipulate the weather.

Additional resources from Andrew Steele:

  • Pick up "Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old" at your local bookstore: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780385544924
  • Website: https://andrewsteele.co.uk/
  • Follow @statto on Twitter https://twitter.com/statto
  • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DrAndrewSteele

Whales and dolphins in the womb start with nostrils on the tip of their noses by Grant Currin

  • Urton, J. (2021). Now how did that get up there? New study sheds light on development and evolution of dolphin, whale blowholes. UW News. https://www.washington.edu/news/2021/08/05/dolphin-whale-blowholes/
  • Roston, R. A., & Roth, V. L. (2021). Different transformations underlie blowhole and nasal passage development in a toothed whale (Odontoceti: Stenella attenuata ) and a baleen whale (Mysticeti: Balaenoptera physalus ). Journal of Anatomy. https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.13492

How weather manipulation works by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Joseph in Peoria, Illinois)

  • Is weather control a dream or nightmare? (2017, October 19). Science News for Students. https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/weather-control-dream-or-nightmare
  • Eoin O'Carroll, & Paulson, A. (2018, October 15). Unintended consequences: Climate-hacking poses big ethical questions. The Christian Science Monitor; The Christian Science Monitor. https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2018/1015/Unintended-consequences-Climate-hacking-poses-big-ethical-questions
  • Our Mission Modification ? (2013). Noaa.gov. https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hrd_sub/modification.html
  • Cool Science: How Kurt Vonnegut’s Brother Tried To Break Up Hurricanes | GE News. (2020). Ge.com. https://www.ge.com/news/reports/cool-science-vonnegut-ge-research

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