{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/628d8b1fafcae40015d04325/628d8b2416fef80014518929?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"InnocuLatte™","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/628d8b1fafcae40015d04325/628d8b2416fef80014518929.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>(S02E08) Justin and Darci discuss the latest COVID research into babies, AI and 'common humanity', as well as some kids' science stories that share a nautical theme (cuttlefish, sea slugs, surfboards, pirates). Plus ...bee butts?   </p>\n\n<p>NB: It is not legal to sell breast milk in Australia.   </p>\n\n<p>Support Neptune Today on Patreon: <a href='https://patreon.com/neptunetoday'>https://patreon.com/neptunetoday</a>   \nPaypal: <a href='https://paypal.me/neptunetoday'>https://paypal.me/neptunetoday</a>    </p>\n\n<p>COVID stories in this episode:   </p>\n\n<p>1. University of Washington, \"Helpful behavior during pandemic tied to recognizing common humanity.\" <a href='https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/uow-hbd031021.php'>https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/uow-hbd031021.php</a>     </p>\n\n<p>2. Johns Hopkins Medicine, \"Dynamic Tool Accurately Predicts Risk of COVID-19 Progressing to Severe Disease or Death.\" <a href='https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/covid-19-story-tip-dynamic-tool-accurately-predicts-risk-of-covid-19-progressing-to-severe-disease-or-death'>https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/covid-19-story-tip-dynamic-tool-accurately-predicts-risk-of-covid-19-progressing-to-severe-disease-or-death</a>    </p>\n\n<p>3. University of Cambridge, \"Use of AI to fight COVID-19 risks harming 'disadvantaged groups', experts warn.\" <a href='https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/uoc-uoa031521.php'>https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/uoc-uoa031521.php</a>   </p>\n\n<p>4. University of Rochester, \"Breast feeding mothers do not transfer COVID through milk: A recent study shows evidence that breast milk does not transfer COVID, but does produce COVID-fighting antibodies.\" <a href='https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/uorm-bfm031021.php'>https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/uorm-bfm031021.php</a>    </p>\n\n<p>5. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, \"Vulnerable newborns being separated from their mothers in COVID-19 pandemic: Healthcare workers caring for world's small and sick newborns are stressed by fear for their own health, lack of PPE and resources including oxygen.\" <a href='https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/lsoh-vnb031521.php'>https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/lsoh-vnb031521.php</a>    </p>\n\n<p>Other stories in this episode:   </p>\n\n<p>1. Science Daily, \"Fast-learning cuttlefish pass the 'marshmallow test': Cuttlefish can delay gratification, and those that can wait longest also do better in a learning test, scientists have discovered.\" <a href='https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210302212001.htm'>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210302212001.htm</a>    </p>\n\n<p>2. Science News, \"Bee larvae drum with their butts, which may confuse predatory wasps: The grub-like larvae use calluses to tap their cocoons in a curious chorus inside a plant stem.\"\n<a href='https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bee-larva-drum-butts-percussion-wasp-biology'>https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bee-larva-drum-butts-percussion-wasp-biology</a>   </p>\n\n<p>3. ABC News, \"'Nudi nerds' turn out for annual sea-slug count and find a blaze of underwater colour.\" <a href='https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-14/nudi-nerds-turn-out-for-sea-slug-census-in-exmouth/13224974'>https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-14/nudi-nerds-turn-out-for-sea-slug-census-in-exmouth/13224974</a>     </p>\n\n<p>4. ABC News, \"Lost surfboard found after 4 years and 2,700km journey.\" <a href='https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-15/surfboard-found-after-16-months-at-sea/13248454'>https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-15/surfboard-found-after-16-months-at-sea/13248454</a>   </p>","author_name":"Neptune Today"}