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Performing magic for animals, and why the pandemic is pushing people out of prisons

Performing magic for animals, and why the pandemic is pushing people out of prisons

Science Magazine Podcast · Science Magazine

September 17, 202026m 22s

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Show Notes

Staff Writer Kelly Servick joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how jail and prison populations in the United States have dropped in the face of coronavirus and what kinds of scientific questions about public health and criminal justice are arising as a result.

Also this week, Elias García-Pelegrín, a Ph.D. student at the University of Cambridge, talks with Sarah about his article on watching animals watch magic tricks. Do animals fall for the same illusions we do? What does it say about the way their minds work?

This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy.

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