[Video plays] MS. PATEL: Hi, everyone. This is so exciting for you. That was me on the video; that is me in real life. Today I’m going to talk about the column that I write called “Hidden Planet.” That video is actually part of the column. There’s a whole four-and-a-half-minute-long version as well as the article, which I’ll talk about, but we were looking at how climate change is affecting how animals mate and date, and then we also extended that to humans, which we’ll get to a little bit later. Today you’ve heard a lot about how climate change is affecting different continents. My column focuses more on the places you might not expect it to hit. Oh, he’s got it. So that’s what I’m going to talk about for “Hidden Planet.” My name is Kasha Patel. I am a science journalist at The Post. I cover environment, weather, and climate, and I really like my job because every day and all day I get to talk to scientists, and I’m always learning new things. Like, I learned that astrophysicists are very good spellers because they’re constantly spelling all these really long, complicated words like “heliopause,” “spectroscopy,” “insufficient funding.” [Laughter] MS. PATEL: Before I came at The Post, I actually used to work at a small science startup called NASA. [Laughter] MS. PATEL: Outside of my day job, I actually work as a standup comedian for about 10 years, and I specialized specifically in science-themed comedy. And if you think science comedy is made up, it kind of is. [Laughter] MS. PATEL: I think of science-themed comedy as finding humor in science, whether you do it inherently, you find what’s funny about that situation, or you create your own humor. I’m going to demonstrate this with you right […]
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