99 Evolving Language, Dying Amazon, Warming Oceans, Real Hearing for Kids Born Deaf

Living Through Extinction

Be Skeptikal Dammit: History of They/Them as a singular

Environment: The Dying Amazon & Ancient Carvings Revealed

Wildlife: Where did the snow crabs go & a mass die off of pink river dolphins

Positive: One injection and kids born deaf can hear

Show Notes:

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