This episode explores new research, which has found that nearly half of 232 US health datasets were changed, mostly replacing 'gender' with 'sex', without logging or explanation.

--- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Testament to the Agency of Man’ by Rickey Laurentiis here.

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This episode explores new research, which has found that damming water in reservoirs from 1835 to 2011 shifted Earth's spin axis by over half a metre.

--- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Toward the North Pole’ by Louis Gilmore here.

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This episode explores new research, which has found that vampire bats can lick rabies vaccines off each other, spreading immunity through grooming.

--- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Bats’ by Hussain Ahmed here.

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