99 Evolving Language, Dying Amazon, Warming Oceans, Real Hearing for Kids Born Deaf

Be Skeptikal Dammit:  History of They/Them as a singular

Environment:  The Dying Amazon & Ancient Carvings Revealed

Wildlife:  Where did the snow crabs go & a mass die off of pink river dolphins

Positive:  One injection and kids born deaf can hear

Show Notes:

https://www.scu.edu/media/offices/provost/writing-center/resources/Tips-Singular-Pronoun-They.pdf   https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/singular-they-history   https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/25/677177   https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/april-2020/singular-they-nonbinary-language-in-the-historical-community   https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/singular-nonbinary-they   https://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/2020/11/16/singular-they-teaching-a-changing-language/ https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2023/10/25/amazon-drought-exposes-ancient-rock-carvings
  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/severe-drought-in-the-amazon-reveals-ancient-face-carvings-180983143/   https://phys.org/news/2023-10-drought-brazil-amazon-reveals-ancient.html   https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/severe-drought-reveals-more-than-100-rock-carvings-in-amazonian-tributary-that-may-be-up-to-2000-years-old   https://www.realclearhistory.com/2023/10/26/amazon_drought_exposes_ancient_rock_carvings_988650.html   https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/23904829/amazon-rainforest-deforestation-tipping-point   https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/deforestation-brazils-amazon-has-reached-record-high-whats-being-done   https://www.sciencenews.org/article/10-billion-snow-crabs-disappeared-alaska
  https://phys.org/news/2023-10-billion-crabs-starved-death-bering.html   https://www.livescience.com/billions-snow-crabs-vanish-from-bering-sea   https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/alaska-snow-crab   https://e360.yale.edu/features/snow-crabs-alaska-bering-sea-climate-change   https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-10-billion-snow-crabs-disappeared-off-the-coast-of-alaska-180983112/   https://www.newscientist.com/article/2399388-pink-river-dolphins-are-dying-from-extreme-heat-in-the-amazon/#:~:text=Even%20more%20concerningly%2C%20153%20dolphins,%2Doff%2C%20say%20local%20researchers.
  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/at-least-125-river-dolphins-have-died-amid-drought-and-heat-in-brazilian-amazon-180983036/   https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/brazil-dead-dolphins-drought-1.6984851   https://a-z-animals.com/blog/dolphins-are-dying-in-the-amazon-and-this-is-why/   https://www.onegreenplanet.org/environment/amazon-river-dolphins-die-amid-record-high-water-temperatures/   https://www.science.org/content/article/gene-therapy-restores-hearing-children-rare-form-deafness
  https://www.wired.com/story/new-trials-aim-to-restore-hearing-in-deaf-children-with-gene-therapy/   https://hsci.harvard.edu/news/gene-therapy-restores-hearing-deaf-mice-down-whisper   https://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article/new-trials-aim-to-restore-hearing-in-deaf-children   https://www.news-medical.net/news/20211215/First-of-its-kind-gene-therapy-technique-reverses-severe-hearing-loss-in-mice.aspx  

Be Skeptikal Dammit:  History of They/Them as a singular

Environment:  The Dying Amazon & Ancient Carvings Revealed

Wildlife:  Where did the snow crabs go & a mass die off of pink river dolphins

Positive:  One injection and kids born deaf can hear

Show Notes:

https://www.scu.edu/media/offices/provost/writing-center/resources/Tips-Singular-Pronoun-They.pdf   https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/singular-they-history   https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/25/677177   https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/april-2020/singular-they-nonbinary-language-in-the-historical-community   https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/singular-nonbinary-they   https://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/2020/11/16/singular-they-teaching-a-changing-language/ https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2023/10/25/amazon-drought-exposes-ancient-rock-carvings   https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/severe-drought-in-the-amazon-reveals-ancient-face-carvings-180983143/   https://phys.org/news/2023-10-drought-brazil-amazon-reveals-ancient.html   https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/severe-drought-reveals-more-than-100-rock-carvings-in-amazonian-tributary-that-may-be-up-to-2000-years-old   https://www.realclearhistory.com/2023/10/26/amazon_drought_exposes_ancient_rock_carvings_988650.html   https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/23904829/amazon-rainforest-deforestation-tipping-point   https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/deforestation-brazils-amazon-has-reached-record-high-whats-being-done   https://www.sciencenews.org/article/10-billion-snow-crabs-disappeared-alaska   https://phys.org/news/2023-10-billion-crabs-starved-death-bering.html   https://www.livescience.com/billions-snow-crabs-vanish-from-bering-sea   https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/alaska-snow-crab   https://e360.yale.edu/features/snow-crabs-alaska-bering-sea-climate-change   https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-10-billion-snow-crabs-disappeared-off-the-coast-of-alaska-180983112/   https://www.newscientist.com/article/2399388-pink-river-dolphins-are-dying-from-extreme-heat-in-the-amazon/#:~:text=Even%20more%20concerningly%2C%20153%20dolphins,%2Doff%2C%20say%20local%20researchers.   https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/at-least-125-river-dolphins-have-died-amid-drought-and-heat-in-brazilian-amazon-180983036/   https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/brazil-dead-dolphins-drought-1.6984851   https://a-z-animals.com/blog/dolphins-are-dying-in-the-amazon-and-this-is-why/   https://www.onegreenplanet.org/environment/amazon-river-dolphins-die-amid-record-high-water-temperatures/   https://www.science.org/content/article/gene-therapy-restores-hearing-children-rare-form-deafness   https://www.wired.com/story/new-trials-aim-to-restore-hearing-in-deaf-children-with-gene-therapy/   https://hsci.harvard.edu/news/gene-therapy-restores-hearing-deaf-mice-down-whisper   https://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article/new-trials-aim-to-restore-hearing-in-deaf-children   https://www.news-medical.net/news/20211215/First-of-its-kind-gene-therapy-technique-reverses-severe-hearing-loss-in-mice.aspx