In the Cosmos newsroom, questions of ‘would you rather’ usually end up down weird and wonderful scientific rabbit holes.
And like all good journalists should, we decided to make a podcast out of it.
Welcome to ‘Would You Rather’ a podcast where Cosmos science journalists debate a topic and only one comes out the victor.
Today, journalists Jacinta Bowler and Imma Perfetto debate the merits of whether a plague of locusts or frogs – naturally of biblical proportions – would be worse.
Perhaps it’s unsurprising to note that it wasn’t hard to find a winner.
Check out more ‘Would You Rathers’, and other podcast episodes from the Cosmos newsroom below:
Originally published by Cosmos as Would You Rather: A biblical plague of frogs or locusts?
Jacinta Bowler
Jacinta Bowler is a science journalist at Cosmos.
They were published in the Best Australian Science Writing 2023.
Imma Perfetto
Imma Perfetto is a science journalist at Cosmos. She has a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Science Communication from the University of Adelaide.
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