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 have an undergraduate degree in genetics and journalism from the University of Queensland and have been published in the Best Australian Science Writing 2022.
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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