Episode 65: Here’s Something About Thanksgiving

Graycen and Alison talk about some Thanksgiving-themed stories, including stories about seed banks, rats, football, and a Thanksgiving NASA disaster.

Seed banks first withdrawal in just in time for grain fest

• Article: Matt Simon for Wired
• Paper: Westengen et al, Nature Plants

Protect your family this Thanksgiving, like this poisonous, monogamous rat (a stretch? You betcha)

• Article: George Dvorsky, Gizmodo, 20 November 2020
• Article: Lisa Potter, University of Utah, 19 November 2020
• Paper: Sara B. Weinstein et al., Journal of Mammalogy, 17 November 2020

People tell me football is a Thanksgiving thing

• Article: Kenneth Chang for the New York Times
• Paper: Richard H. Price, American Journal of Physics

NASA Thanksgiving disaster story

• Article: Eric Berger, Ars Technical, 23 November 2020