The Septendecennial Sing-Along
Radiolab
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The Cicada's Mating Song
John Cooley and David Marshall discovered things were more complicated than we thought. When the cicadas come, what you're really hearing is an orchestra of sex. Just think of all these little animals getting ready to do what they've been waiting 17 long years in the ground to do. All the while it's the songs that matter. Each individual doesn't have to know that much about the whole. And still interesting things happen, which gives you a different view of human life.
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