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Hello everyone! This is our very first holiday special!
No special guest this time, just four members of the TSB podcast team chatting about sciency fun-facts, evil christmas decorations and ...bird dress code!

This is the last episode of the year 2021.We will take a short break but we'll be back at the end of January 2022!
Amazing science ahead!

Full transcript of the episode at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oflnW-rxROX1WoOh7iu0VpdxHamV12hz/view?usp=sharing

References
-Good friends are literally on the same wavelength:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02722-7

-Fully degradable plastic made out of… salmon sperm:
https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c08888

-In the past, there were giant penguins in Peru!:
Ksepka, Daniel T., and Tatsuro Ando. "Penguins past, present, and future: trends in the evolution of the Sphenisciformes." Living Dinosaurs (2011): 155-186.

-Mistletoe is EVIL:
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms7262
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fVX0WVGshQ

Your hosts this week are Tomás Garnier Artiñano, Giuliano Didio, Katja Kaurinkoski and Steven Simmonds.
Editing by Tomás Garnier Artiñano.
Episode cover by Katja Kaurinkoski.
TSB Podcast logo by Tomás Garnier Artiñano.
Jingle by Havelocke. thisishavelocke.bandcamp.com

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