05 February, 2019 – Episode 757 – Life on Earth

What is in the This Week in Science Podcast?

Global Biodiversity, Plant Life, Homeless Schooled, Grey Seals Clap, Cuttlefish Favorites, Violent Man?, Bee Beats, Coronavirus Numbers Update, Cat Defense or Coincidence?, People Yarn, Red Meat Bad, Super Spider Glue, And Much More…

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As a novel pneumonia inducing virus races around the world

out pacing containment efforts

As governments, media, markets and healthcare workers react

As the number of infected continue to grow

And as scientists work overtime to construct a vaccine…

Something to keep in mind…

It is well within our power to deal with this emergency

as with many other potential threats to human health

Through the ongoing investments we make in education

In research, and our public health systems.

Without the public investment

We would be unprepared to identify that an outbreak was occuring

Without the public investment

We would be unprepared to discover the source of such outbreaks

Without the public investment

We would be unprepared to react quickly, and in an effective manner

Without the public investment

We would be unprepared to survive this and much more lethal events

We are in this together, this world, this life, this experiment called humanity

And in a very direct way, nothing makes that more clear

than a pandemic that can cross all borders we set between us

That, and This Week in Science,

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Let’s start with SCIENCE!

Global Biodiversity

Research from and interdisciplinary team published in PLoS One reports the effort to map biodversity on land and sea in relation to influencing factors.