Everyone's favorite alien scientists, Quinn and Micky, meet up with author Mary Ellen Hannibal to learn how regular humans can participate in science in a non-professional capacity. Ms. Hannibal is a treasure trove of information about citizen science, and has dedicated many years of her life to salving the rivalry between humans and nature. This conversation also explores the relationship of individuals to the whole, birth and death, and the role of theory and story in science. Join Demystifying Science: http://eepurl.com/gRUCZL Support us & Ms. Hannibal when you buy these books: Citizen Science - https://amzn.to/3g0BdI5 The Spine of the Continent - https://amzn.to/39rY5Od Evidence for Evolution - https://amzn.to/3g4lHuD Become a citizen scientist by signing up for the platforms mentioned: Zooniverse (https://www.zooniverse.org/), eBird(https://ebird.org/home), and iNaturalist(https://www.inaturalist.org/)! Mary Ellen Hannibal: Twitter: https://twitter.com/mehannibal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/speakbutterfly https://www.maryellenhannibal.com More readings from us: https://demystifyingscience.com Let's talk! @DemystifySci Twitter: https://twitter.com/demystifysci Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/demystifysci Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/demystifysci ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Music: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Shilo Delay: https://soundcloud.com/laterisgone Between Worlds (Instrumental) by Aussens@iter (c) copyright 2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/tobias_weber/56664 Ft: (Smiling Cynic) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKq7AMMtcIo

How did humans come to sing? We dig into the evolution of song to answer this question and shine some light on the adaptive role of song in humans. Support us by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/demystifysci Don’t forget to check out the full interview with mix master Larry Crane. Full interview: https://youtu.be/LmV5UVo7Ly0 Podcast: https://anchor.fm/demystifying-science Mailing list http://eepurl.com/gRUCZL​ PODCAST INFO: Linktree: https://linktr.ee/demystifysci --- Blog: http://demystifyingscience.com/blog Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3uhn7J1 Spotify: https://spoti.fi/39IDJBD RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss Full episodes playlist: https://bit.ly/3sP1WgR Clips playlist: https://bit.ly/2OieYEG Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/demystifysci - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/demystifyingscience - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/demystifysci/ We wrote and performed the music in this episode! Shilo Delay: https://soundcloud.com/laterisgone​ And everywhere else (Spotify, etc..) https://g.co/kgs/fc8WbA References: Pan and the Music of Nature, Pauline LeVen. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119275510.ch4 Music as Calming to Infants https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1029864908012001081 https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?hl=en&publication_year=2013&author=H+Honing&title=Musical+cognition%3A+a+science+of+listening Music as origin of language: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?hl=en&publication_year=2000&pages=271-300&author=S+Brown&title=The+origins+of+music Music and memory: https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/music-can-boost-memory-and-mood Bird loss in the US: https://www.audubon.org/news/north-america-has-lost-more-1-4-birds-last-50-years-new-study-says --- Hahad, Omar, et al. "Environmental noise-induced effects on stress hormones, oxidative stress, and vascular dysfunction: key factors in the relationship between cerebrocardiovascular and psychological disorders." Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity 2019 (2019). Hauser, Marc D., Noam Chomsky, and W. Tecumseh Fitch. "The faculty of language: what is it, who has it, and how did it evolve?." science 298.5598 (2002): 1569-1579. Herman, L. et al. “Comprehension of sentences by bottlenosed dolphins.” Cognition 16 (1984): 129-219. Krause, Bernie. (1993). The niche hypothesis. 6. 6-10. Kunc Hansjoerg P. and Schmidt Rouven, 2019. The effects of anthropogenic noise on animals: a meta-analysis. Biol. Lett. Marcus, G. Startling starlings. Nature 440, 1117–1118 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/4401117a Morell, V. (2014). When the bat sings. Science, 344(6190), 1334–1337. doi:10.1126/science.344.6190.1334 Suzuki, R., Buck, J. R., & Tyack, ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYprhQKXkY0

Micky and Quinn sort out some urgent questions about viruses. Links to the papers about viruses affecting genetic material on Earth: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4609113/ https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2017.02110/full Give us a read at: https://demystifyingscience.com Come talk to us! Twitter: https://twitter.com/demystifysci Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/demystifysci/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIJGTwd9DtQ

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