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Hey, shortwavers, it has been a year so many big events have happened.
I mean, recently we went through a whole election.
And back in April, there was a total solar eclipse over the United States for the first time in years.
Then there was the Paris Olympics, where athletes from around the world sought to get as close to defying the laws of physics as possible.
And then there was the continued memeification of life like Mu dang, the pygmy hippo the Internet is obsessed with.
And honestly, I'm obsessed with too.
It was part of my Halloween costume this year.
And still we realize some of the biggest evolving stories of the year, they're all related to human health.
So we're bringing some of our coolest science reporters around to talk about this year's biggest stories.
One of those stories is what's in our drinking water supply, which we have Ping Huang on deck to talk through.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, there are so many buckets to look into from forever chemicals to lead to fluoride.
And we'll get to all of them briefly before turning to Will Stone, who we have here to talk about bird flu, which we might need to know a lot more about next year.
Right, Will.
Hey there.
Yeah, unfortunately, it's looking like it.
Third, we have Sidney Lupkin to talk all things obesity drugs, which seem to have gotten like more and more popular ever since we first heard the word Ozempic.
Yeah.
Even though as we'll get into later, Ozempic is a diabetes drug.