Blue Streak Science Podcast

In California we’ve noticed that winegrape harvests have shifted to earlier and earlier due to a warmer climate over the past few decades. Along with this shift in agriculture we’ve also experienced extended and more catastrophic fire seasons.  Last week the huge Kincade fire swept through Sonoma County, and threatened several towns, including a neighborhood that was incinerated only two years ago.  In today’s episode we learn of JD’s experience in this “new normal” of climate change.  On This Week’s Show Mini black holes Genetically modified rice The California wildfires Science News with JD Goodwin and Chris MacAlister Astronomers Just Found the First Evidence That ‘Mini Black Holes' Exist Chris MacAlister This is a story about a fascinating new discovery about a less extreme, extreme of the universe’s extremities. Todd Thompson and his colleagues theorised that there may be smaller black holes existing as a part of binary star systems. Too far away to be sucking in material from the other sun, but sti