235: Miles Roberts on NASA's Planetary Protection Officer, Americans Getting Slower and The Cockroaches & The Bees

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Comedian Miles Roberts (@milesboberts) joins us talk about NASA's job posting for a Planetary Protection Officer, why American runners have been getting slower and cockroaches that farm mushrooms. Plus we take a close look at sexuality in space.

PLANETARY PROTECTION OFFICER IS PROBABLY NOT THE JOB YOU THINK IT IS

http://www.npr.org/2017/08/03/541352728/do-you-have-what-it-takes-to-be-nasa-s-next-planetary-protection-officer

AMERICANS ARE GETTING SLOWER (AT RUNNING)

http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/07/09/536030467/why-are-american-runners-getting-slower

COCKROACH FARMERS

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170803091907.htm

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