Cats Prefer People, Battling Bed Bugs, and More: 60 Second Science Podcasts
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Channel: Scientific American · 2017 · Science & Technology
Listen and learn about the extreme Colorado storm that did a century's worth of erosion in a matter of days, the bat-biting relatives of today's blood-sucking bed bugs, how and why your cat would prefer you over his or her favorite toy, and the 25 million tons worth of spiders that consume some 400 million tons of insects and other arthropods. Reported by Julia Rosen, Christopher Intagliata, Karen Hopkin, and Steve Mirsky. For more Scientific American Podcasts, visit https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcasts Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/SciAmerican Studies reported: http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/early/2017/03/27/G38935.1.abstract https://academic.oup.com/jme/article/3099878/An-Early-Holocene-Record-of-Cimex-Hemiptera?searchresult=1 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0376635716303424 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00114-017-1440-1
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