Did anyone else have NPR on in the background while working on their Community Ecology papers this weekend? In case you didn’t, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me (the oddly informative news quiz) had two community ecology related segments this weekend. Not quite peer review caliber, but worth a listen. I’m not great with figuring out how stable links are, but you should be able to hear the show (on the internet or via podcast) and/or see the transcripts from the show’s website www.npr.org/programs/waitwait .
The first community ecology-ish bit was in the Bluff the Listener segment, where Adam Felber recounts a story of a mega-mall which has evolved its own “…weather, indigenous plant life, and at least two unique species of poison resistant, highly aggressive rats.” It is also quoted as having “become a sort of retail Galapagos.” The other community eco-ish bit was towards the end of the Panel Round Two segment, where host Peter Sagal quotes a Pentagon study that a decline in science education in the country has lead to fewer “nerds” being produced. Sagal then spins a yarn that “High school is just like any other complex ecosystem, it balances out. Without nerds to stuff into lockers, jocks will have to feed on the burnouts, allowing the marijuana crops to flourish and multiply, which in turn leads to stoned cheerleaders. Then, the jocks, with no one to cheer for them, begin to die out, freeing nerds to rise again.”
And if all of this is not enough reason to listen to this week’s show, the Not my Job guests were two members of the band (and cultural icon) The Village People!
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