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Conservation biologist, writer, editor 'n' chef of @EatTheInvaders, @RadInstitute Fellow. New book: "Eat, Poop, Die."
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What Can Whales Teach Us About Clean Energy, Workplace Harmony, and Living the Good Life? (Update)

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By Joe Roman, Herman Melville, Stephen Dubner 
| Freakonomics.
Episode Transcript Hey there, it’s Stephen Dubner. You’re about to hear the third episode in our three-part series on the economics of whaling, which we first published in 2023. We’ll also publish a bonus episode featuring a conversation with a Norwegian whaler about what it’s like to hunt whales today. We have updated facts and figures when necessary. As always, thanks for listening. Stephen DUBNER: How many times have you read Moby-Dick? Hester BLUM: Fifty is probably reasonable. I’m 50 years old.
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Así nació una isla en medio del Atlántico: el asombroso laboratorio natural donde la vida comenzó desde cero gracias a la caca de gaviota Original

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By Joe Roman, Christian Perez, Christian Pérez
| muyinteresante.com
A veces, las historias más poderosas no empiezan con una gran explosión mediática, sino con una bocanada de azufre en medio del océano. En la madrugada de un día aparentemente ordinario frente a la costa islandesa, un pescador percibió un olor extraño, ajeno incluso para quienes están acostumbrados al fuerte aroma del mar y el pescado.
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Humpback whales harbor a highly novel and endemic gut microbiome that adapts to periods of fasting during migration

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By Ryan Bos, Joe Roman, Michael Fishbach, Suzanne Yin
| biorxiv.org
Abstract Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) are cosmopolitan in distribution and most populations migrate between foraging and breeding grounds each year1,2. As capital breeders, many humpbacks reduce foraging behavior and potentially fast for a few months of the year3. Here, we present a comparative genomic analysis of the gut microbiomes from humpbacks on two breeding grounds: Gulf of California, where feeding is common4-6, and Hawaii, where feeding is extremely rare7.
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