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I am always happy to be here, but I'll be honest, I'm only here because I heard we might have dessert.
Okay, we should have brought some in. There might be some in the building we can look after, but we're here to talk to you about why our dessert craving actually begins in our brain. How elephant seals are helping scientists monitor ocean health. And then finding water in the desert. Fog.
That's all well and good, but again, I'm going to stress that I was promised dessert.
Oh, fine. I guess we lie. All of that on this episode of Shortwave, the science podcast from NPR.
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