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Listen now. A brief prelude to tomorrow’s “Bananas Anyone” podcast launching July 15, 2021, at 6:00 pm CDT. Here on anchor.fm/lettersread. In this recording, Letters Read project director Nancy Sharon Collins puts forth a science fiction theory on her neighbor, microbiology scholar Claiborne Christian, Ph.D., Tulane University, New Orleans. The following snippet was recorded on her deck, during a typical, New Orleans thunderstorm. You will hear the pouring rain. The distinct sound of the rain is an ironic nod to the subject of tomorrow's Letters Read. Image: Scientific illustration of the “Aedes aegypti” mosquito, the primary carrier of the Zika virus. (Illustration by Vichai Malikul, Entomology Department, National Museum of Natural History).