Do some fish see color in the black-and-white world of the ocean’s depths? In episode 55, Zuzana Musilová, an evolutionary biologist at Charles University in Prague, discusses her research into the unique way that some fish in the deep ocean’s darkness may be able to see in color.
Nearly 80 years ago, the USS Grunion submarine sank on its inaugural mission during World War II, taking the lives of 70 sailors with it as it plunged to the bottom of the Pacific.
Large observational study finds that people who reported eating any dark chocolate in two 24-hour periods had 70% lower odds of reporting clinically relevant depressive symptoms than those who reported not eating chocolate at all.
Affordable Care Act coverage expansion found to reduce the probability of returning to prison for violent and public order crimes among multi-time re-offenders by as much as 31% to 40%.
Terrible news for social and environmental justice news coverage: Pacific Standard, a news outlet by & for California– but relevant across the globe – is shutting down after 11 years.
The presumed reason: Sage Publishing– which publishes over 1000 academic journals – pulled their funding.
