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LA CROSSE TALK PM: From 5,000 Tundra Swans on the Mississippi to 8 billion people on Earth
UW-La Crosse Outreach Specialist Spencer Wilken in the WIZM studio Wednesday to talk science.
We hit on everything from space to the Earth, and water, on La Crosse Talk PM.
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The world now has 8 billion people. Wilken talks whether that’s sustainable or not.
In relation to that, we talk about how scientists are developing a new fake meat, or a real fake meat — not the plant-based stuff you see. That leads to all kinds of questions.
Wilken also had to get her take on the star, Betelguese (not the movie Beetlejuice), though that did spark a debate about terrible sci-fi movies and Channing Tatum talk.
Ended the show talking about the 5,000 Tundra Swans on the Mississippi River near La Crosse right now — Brownsville, Minn., actually (post here) and others just north of Winona, Minn. (post here).