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Podcast: Fascinating Nouns
Episode: Ep. 249: The Coming Cicada Swarm
Description: An extraordinarily rare event is going to happen in 2024: Two periodical cicada broods will be emerging at the same time, covering both the South and the Midwest in large, droning insects for six weeks this summer. How rare are we talking here? How about once every 221 years level of rare? The last time these two broods came out at the same time, Thomas Jefferson was president. He even wrote about them in his garden notes! This week I sit down with cicada expert Dr. Gene Kritsky and we discuss what makes these guys so special. Is it that they spend 1...