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Podcast: News Bites
Episode: Blue Algae, Walking Again, Netflix Sharing
Description: Hellooo, and welcome to News Bites…
I'm Trevor…
And I'm Paz Bueno.
Let's look at today's stories:
Blue algae glow in the dark, a brain implant does something amazing, and Netflix stops sharing.
Here we go… Dun dun dun dun dunalanadun!
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藍眼淚照片引發環境辯論
Blue Algae Photo Starts Environmental Discussion
Let's start this story with a really hard English word: "Bioluminescence" (生物發光).
"Bio" is a word for living things (生物), and when something is "luminescent" (會發光), that means it can glow in the dark (能在黑暗中發光)!
And in the water around Taiwan's Mazu islands (馬祖), one kind of living thing is VERY bioluminescent…
It's called algae (海藻).
When this algae glows (發光), it glows a beautiful bright blue (會發又漂亮又閃亮的藍光)… and there...