Blue Streak Science Podcast

On This Week’s Show New study regarding the measles vaccine and autism Green icebergs Type D killer whales Expert birders are full of crap Science News with JD Goodwin and Chris MacAlister More than 100 new insect species discovered on island JD Goodwin Did you ever think that whatever can been discovered has already been found by someone, somewhere else, some other time? It can feel like that. However, in the field of biology, in this case entomology, there’s a lot out there we know nothing about.  Last week it was announced in the journal Zoo Keys that 103 new species of beetles have been discovered, described, and named.  And all came from the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. All are weevils, only a few millimeters in length, and were named after things like Star Wars characters like Yoda. Others were names for scientists like Charles Darwin.  To put this discovery in perspective, only a single species of weevil had ever been found before on Sulawesi, and that was in 1885. This is essentially because no