Blue Streak Science Podcast

Spring has arrived! It’s been a cold, snowy, and wet winter in North America while the rest of hemisphere seemed much warmer than normal. But hope springs eternal with the new season. Flowers are blooming, birds are singing, and young people are on strike for climate action. There’s something in the air, that’s for sure. On This Week’s Show Switch to soft foods affected human speech An invasion in California Good news when it comes to heart attacks An explanation for my magnetic personality The Climate Lounge Pub Quiz Science News with Sophie McManus and Chris MacAlister Ancient switch to soft food gave us the ability to pronounce ‘f’s and ‘v’s Sophie McManus This is so interesting! I can blame evolution for my horrendous need for braces as a teenager. Maybe. This story concerns a study recently published in the journal Science by an international team of researchers, with affiliations in Switzerland, the US, France, Russia, the Netherlands and Singapore. The emergence of agriculture allowed early human di