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(0:00) - Recording Start
(3:55) - Intro, Dr. Kiki
(4:22) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - Dr. Kiki
(5:00) - Opening Theme Music, Dr. Kiki
(5:36) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings - with Dr. Kiki & Blair. Justin is off.
(9:29) - Science News —
(9:44) - Big Climate News Stories
(10:24) - A recent doubling of global warming rate signals a 1.5 °C breach by 2028 [Nature - Climate and Atmospheric Science]
(11:40) - Sea-level contribution from Thwaites Glacier doubles in an observation-constrained ice-sheet model [Nature - Communications]
(14:51) - Global warming and the National Cattlemen’s Association 1986–1996 [PLOS Climate]
(21:09) - Report: Earth’s climate system increasingly unstable, but signs of positive change emerge [Eureka Alert], Dr. Kiki
(28:02) - The En-ROADS Climate Solutions Simulator - Climate Interactive [https://www.climateinteractive.org/en-roads/]
(29:58) - Ebola Outbreak No Vaccine for strain, but starting Vaccine Trials, in Democratic Republic of Conga Africa — Story from Last Week
(31:22) - Washington State in the U.S. just reported a H5N1 Flu Outbreak
(31:50) - Using fake avian flu patients, researchers show need for faster action, better compliance [University Of Minnesota CIDRAP], Dr. Kiki
(36:47) - High-speed video reveals how honey bee stingers keep pumping venom after detachment [Phys.org], Blair
(44:22) - Scientists move a step toward quantum computers that can correct their own mistakes [Eureka Alert], Dr. Kiki
(49:38) - Healthy reef sounds can boost coral and fish recovery efforts [Phys.org], Blair
(1:04:52) - And... We're at the Break!
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...More minions, please!
(1:06:19) - And — We're back from The Break!
(1:06:22) - Blair’s Animal Corner
(1:06:26) - Blair’s Animal Corner Theme
(1:06:49) - Meet the long-legged giants that light up the deep ocean [Phys.org], Blair
(1:16:47) - Elephants continue to shape the savanna even after death [Phys.org] 🐘, Blair
MOAR Science News —
(1:32:43) - 3D structure of DNA may explain how cephalopods evolved complex brains 🐙 [Universität Wien (University Of Vienna) ], Dr. Kiki
(1:39:54) - Unveiling the gut microbiome-immune-brain axis in schizophrenia [Nature - Translational Psychiatry], Dr. Kiki
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(1:45:32) - Show wrap-up
(1:45:34) - Blair did look up Methane & Carbon Dioxide Latencies and explains both to us.
(1:47:22) - Thank you's to our Patreon Sponsors
(1:50:00) - End Theme
And that's All, Folks!... Except, we still have...
(1:51:25) - The After Show! Blair’s feed was skipping, her computer was lagging. Time to clean the cache! Further Blair computer diagnosis. We hate it when computers get old. Blair was a completely different person back then! ...and much, much more...