Laurel van der Toorn

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1,424 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 10 Apr

Laurel van der Toorn’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Probably it isn't.

Oh, can we do babies in space?

Do babies.

That's the correct verb to use when we're creating babies.

And ones we'll have to tackle in the next six months when we go to colonize Mars, probably.

All right, let's go to our next story.

We just have about a minute for this one, but it's kind of interesting.

Scientists tried to do an experiment that involves spreading the flu.

I think they like trap people in a hotel room and gave them the flu.

I don't know who these participants were that signed up for this experiment, but what they thought would happen, the scientists did not happen.

All right, so if someone sneezes next to me on a plane, I shouldn't just give them a dirty look.

Maybe they won't spread it, even if they have it.

And it just goes to show we may not know as much about these transmissions as we think we do.

When we come back, I love this topic, rogue waves.

They come out of nowhere.

They cause destruction.

And one of the most extreme ones on record was recorded.

We'll talk about that with Jesse Rogerson at Science News.