Free Podcast: National Geographic News (October 6, 2006)

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This week: dog mummies of ancient Peru discovered, 2006 Nobel prize winners announced, crickets go "silent" to avoid parasites, sea lice killing wild salmon, tuberculosis may have wiped out the mastodons, and more.

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MORE ON THIS WEEK'S PODCAST

Headlines

• Crickets go "silent" to avoid parasites (read full story)
• Sea lice killing wild salmon (read full story)
• Did tuberculosis wipe out the mastodons? (read full story)
• 2006 Nobel prizes awarded (read stories about the medicine, physics, and chemistry winners)

Interviews
• Craig Mello, co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (read story)
• Colombian-born recording artist Marta Gomez (sample her music)

Photos on the Radio
Dog mummies of ancient Peru (see the photo)

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