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Dr. Mara Mulrooney wants to debunk Jared Diamond’s famous assertion that the people of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, committed “environmental suicide.”
It’s a disease known as “sea star wasting syndrome” and it causes a starfish’s arms to literally escape from their bodies. The appendages detach and then just “walk” away.
After 17 years underground, billions of cicadas are about to emerge all over the East Coast. Although they might be harmless, they'll outnumber humans 600 to 1. Louis Sorkin from the Museum of Natural History joins us to tell us what we need to know.