232: Kash Abdulmalik on Bacterial Dust Storms, Punk Rock Cockatoos and Disinfecting Nanobots

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Kash Abdulmalik(@KashAbdulmalik) returns to look into how dust storms can affect your allergies, biomes and general health, one of the only animals that plays the drums in the wild and the invention of a passively self-powered nanobot that can clean up stagnant water. Plus can we build a highway to the moon?

SANDSTORM BIOMES

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170627105407.htm

PUNK ROCK COCKATOOS

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-palm-cockatoos-ringo-starr.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyX8DuBKPZc

WATER NANOBOTS

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170628131355.htm

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