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What happened 'This Week in Science'??? Find out more about Dirty Phones, Deep Air, and Ballistic Spiders with TWIS - the best weekly science news podcast!
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(0:00) - Recording Start
(2:26) - Intro... Whoops! FALSE START, let's try that again..., Dr. Kiki
(2:38) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - Dr. Kiki
(3:06) - Opening Theme Music, Dr. Kiki
(4:25) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings - with Dr. Kiki & Blair. Justin is off this week.
(10:24) - Science News (& some mic fiddling & sound checks for Blair) —
(11:29) - US’s climate.gov site, taken down by Trump, relaunched by nonprofit [Ars Technica] [climate.gov is now climate.us], Dr. Kiki
(21:24) - Hospital workers' phones carry deadly superbugs [Phys.org], Blair
(35:00) - Airflow mystery solved at America’s Underground Lab [Eureka Alert], Dr. Kiki
See also — Airflow mystery solved at America’s Underground Lab [Sanford Underground Research Facility]
(42:55) - 44 years of killer whale (orca) data from the waters of Washington state reveal how endangered fish-eating killer whales are less present in recent years [Eureka Alert], Dr. Kiki
See also — Decades-long dataset shows which orcas are most at home in Puget Sound [Eureka Alert]
(50:17) - And... We're at the Break!
(50:36) - Do tell friends about TWIS, ask them to listen & subscribe!
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...More minions, please!
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(51:29) - And — We're back from The Break!
(51:35) - Blair’s Animal Corner
(51:38) - Blair’s Animal Corner Theme
(52:02) - Pterosaur wing tests suggest modern reconstructions miss major shape diversity [Phys.org[, Blair
(1:03:24) - Ballistic high-powered spider webs overcome dangerous prey defenses [Cell - Current Biology], Blair & Dr. Kiki
MOAR Science News —
(1:10:56) - Virtual reality study with zebrafish shows surroundings influence developing biology of the eye [Eureka Alert], Dr. Kiki
(1:15:57) - Shared neural geometries for bilingual semantic representations in human hippocampal neurons [Cell], Dr. Kiki
(1:22:39) - The neural basis of laughter [Cell - Trends In Neurosciences], Dr. Kiki
Bee-Tee-Dubz — our own Blair Baz has another New Podcast with husband Brian & friend Jesse, "The Fantastical Field Guide."
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• https://www.instagram.com/p/DW4KgmrAZ8C/
(1:28:10) - Show wrap-up
(1:29:08) - Thank you's to our Patreon Sponsors
(1:31:47) - End Theme
And that's All, Folks!... Except, we still have...
(1:33:10) - The After Show! — Faded Out! Really, just the end of the show. What Fun! Still thinking about the Ballistic Spider! 🕷️ Blair might talk about this spider in the Fantastical Field Guide in Season 2. ...and much, much more...