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Published: Dec. 14, 2023, 8 a.m.

Be Skeptikal Dammit: \xa0History of They/Them as a singular

Environment: \xa0The Dying Amazon & Ancient Carvings Revealed

Wildlife: \xa0Where did the snow crabs go & a mass die off of pink river dolphins

Positive: \xa0One injection and kids born deaf can hear

Show Notes:

https://www.scu.edu/media/offices/provost/writing-center/resources/Tips-Singular-Pronoun-They.pdf \xa0 https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/singular-they-history \xa0 https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/25/677177 \xa0 https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/april-2020/singular-they-nonbinary-language-in-the-historical-community \xa0 https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/singular-nonbinary-they \xa0 https://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/2020/11/16/singular-they-teaching-a-changing-language/ https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2023/10/25/amazon-drought-exposes-ancient-rock-carvings
\xa0 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/severe-drought-in-the-amazon-reveals-ancient-face-carvings-180983143/ \xa0 https://phys.org/news/2023-10-drought-brazil-amazon-reveals-ancient.html \xa0 https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/severe-drought-reveals-more-than-100-rock-carvings-in-amazonian-tributary-that-may-be-up-to-2000-years-old \xa0 https://www.realclearhistory.com/2023/10/26/amazon_drought_exposes_ancient_rock_carvings_988650.html \xa0 https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/23904829/amazon-rainforest-deforestation-tipping-point \xa0 https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/deforestation-brazils-amazon-has-reached-record-high-whats-being-done \xa0 https://www.sciencenews.org/article/10-billion-snow-crabs-disappeared-alaska
\xa0 https://phys.org/news/2023-10-billion-crabs-starved-death-bering.html \xa0 https://www.livescience.com/billions-snow-crabs-vanish-from-bering-sea \xa0 https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/alaska-snow-crab \xa0 https://e360.yale.edu/features/snow-crabs-alaska-bering-sea-climate-change \xa0 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-10-billion-snow-crabs-disappeared-off-the-coast-of-alaska-180983112/ \xa0 https://www.newscientist.com/article/2399388-pink-river-dolphins-are-dying-from-extreme-heat-in-the-amazon/#:~:text=Even%20more%20concerningly%2C%20153%20dolphins,%2Doff%2C%20say%20local%20researchers.
\xa0 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/at-least-125-river-dolphins-have-died-amid-drought-and-heat-in-brazilian-amazon-180983036/ \xa0 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/brazil-dead-dolphins-drought-1.6984851 \xa0 https://a-z-animals.com/blog/dolphins-are-dying-in-the-amazon-and-this-is-why/ \xa0 https://www.onegreenplanet.org/environment/amazon-river-dolphins-die-amid-record-high-water-temperatures/ \xa0 https://www.science.org/content/article/gene-therapy-restores-hearing-children-rare-form-deafness
\xa0 https://www.wired.com/story/new-trials-aim-to-restore-hearing-in-deaf-children-with-gene-therapy/ \xa0 https://hsci.harvard.edu/news/gene-therapy-restores-hearing-deaf-mice-down-whisper \xa0 https://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article/new-trials-aim-to-restore-hearing-in-deaf-children \xa0 https://www.news-medical.net/news/20211215/First-of-its-kind-gene-therapy-technique-reverses-severe-hearing-loss-in-mice.aspx \xa0