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uly 1 – 5
This week, Erik traveled to Bolivia in search of water that’s more acidic than battery acid. He succeeds: “Opening my eyes I see that it looks like an orange sort of runny syrup and feels like it’s full of lead.”
DNA “rots” in the heat, which is why ancient genomes are always being sequenced from remains pulled out of freezing regions. Erika wondered what we’d find out if we could decode stuff from the nicer climates.
Ann explained Abtruse Goose’s poke at the people who have the dirty job of dealing with reality.
You can’t go home again — thanks especially, as Christie found, to climate change.
And finally, to celebrate independence day, Ann told us her science writing origins story.