Podcast Transcript July 2nd, 2026- Coffee waste as fuel, Nepal same-sex marriage rights, and understanding heat domes
Episode Description: Stanford researchers took cartilage from patients already getting knee replacements (about as degraded as joint tissue gets) and discovered how it could regenerate itself. The cells weren’t replaced or reprogrammed; they just shifted back toward a younger pattern of behavior, which is the part that feels almost too good to be true. Alongside that, Arielle and Karissa cover the two heat domes expected to merge over the US around July 4th and what extreme heat actually does to
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