25 March, 2020 – Episode 766 – What is the Wonder Chicken?

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Treatment Truths, Cellular Waves, WonderChicken, Animal Ancestor, Snake Venom Virtue, Horny Narwhals, Life Finds A Way, COVID Myths, Musical Brains, Long-lived Ladies, Apelopithecus, And Much More…

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We humans have undergone 10,000 years of domestication since the initial age of agriculture.

In that time, we have experimented with thousands of different societies and ideologies.

Invented as many religions.

Constructed philosophies for all occasions.

Created political and economic systems that span the globe.

Followed the scientific process to amazing peaks of knowledge and technology.

We have largely mastered the natural world,

and are still working out the last kinks in our ancestral ape essence of behavior.

And yet, when everything seems uncertain.

When our domestic bliss is challenged

When societies gears grind to a temporary halt and the restart appears uncertain.

What is it that we reach out for first to see us through?

Toilet paper.

The domesticated modern human does not want to go backwards

At least where our backsides are concerned.

And the second thing we reach out for, is science.

We will not legislate, pray, meditate, philosophize, trade or rate cut our way out of this.

But, we can science ourselves the blankety-blank out of this crisis.

And, the first thing we reach out for when science is the answer is:

This Week in Science,

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COVID-19 UPDATE

Don’t hoard the hydroxychloroquine.