Voice box transplant, Ant doctors, Mars simulation ends

Podcast for 7/15/24 Contents:
Mario Ritter Jr. and Ashley Thompson host today's Learning English show.
00:46 First: A man in the Northeastern state of Massachusetts has regained his voice after a rare operation, a total transplant of his larynx, the organ responsible for speech, commonly called the “voice box.” Doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona offered Kedian the transplant as part of a new study. John Russell has the story. learningenglis...
07:13 Next: Researchers studying Florida carpenter ants find that worker ants provide excellent medical care to their nestmates. This includes wound cleaning and amputations. The procedure helps to increase the strength of the colony. Jill Robbins reports on the research findings. learningenglis...
11:40 Then: Four scientists have left a model Mars environment where they lived in isolation for more than a year. Their project is designed to help NASA planners better understand how living on another world could affect human health and performance. Bryan Lynn reports about the habitat experiment for the LE Science and Technology Report. learningenglis...
18:20 Then, Bryan joins Ashley in the studio to answer some of her questions. First, Ashley asks for more details about the small habitat the scientists lived in. She also wants to know how they got along living so closely together for so many months.
21:05 Finally: The LE Lesson of the Day. Andrew Smith and Jill Robbins base their instruction on the LE video series Let's Learn English Level 2. Andrew and Jill look at episode 13. Learn about using conditionals and some words connected to the world of beekeeping. learningenglis...
Mario and Ashley close the show.
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