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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Miss Twissella Predicts 2009
That's right, world renowned fortune teller, Miss Twissella, has made her scientific predictions for 2009, and chosen This Week in Science for her venue of unveiling.
Well, actually, there's no fortune teller. It's just Kirsten and Justin at it again, trying to predict where science will take us in the next year. It is only slightly more interesting than Miss Twissella would have been.
Listen in to hear about our ideas for stem cell research, genetic engineering, Moon and Mars exploration, and much, much more.
We also discussed a few science stories: Evidence of a mineral possibly indicative of life found in small deposits on Mars; Birds singing more songs and trickier lyrics are sexier to the girls; and, Orangutans trade favors more readily than other apes.
Also, we are inaugurating the TWIS minion question of the month. Each month we will highlight one minion question, and then throw it out there to the rest of you minions to answer.
This month's question is from J. Michael Pinc:
"My question for my fellow listeners is this; are there any natural geological mechanisms that actually release that carbon over geological time? I mean, generally speaking, oil/coal/natural gas are comparatively stable over time and most natural phenomena won't cause combustion. Over geological time, is the carbon usually sequestered in those fuels ever released back into the system or would it have been 'out of the game' if we hadn't found it so useful? And in what time frame (if any) would it take to deplete the free carbon in our biological ecosystem if there were no human (un)mediated release?" So, get to it minions! Email us, or post your answer in the forums. We'll read the best answers on the show at the end of the month.
Music on this week's show is thanks to My Robot Friend, My Poor Kevin, Unbalanced Wheel, and The Exhibits.
Next week, we'll talk with our favorite sci-fi horror author, Scott Sigler.
Listen to it all here.
TWIS UPDATES!!!1) The December TWIS book club meeting is coming quickly! Have you started reading yet? The TWIS book club (twisbookclub.ning.com) Book-of-the-month is Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku.
Buy it here: Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
2) Got any ideas how we should celebrate our 10th anniversary this year? Our 200th podcast episode is also coming up. Share your ideas with us. We'd like to celebrate with you because you are an important part of what we do.
Donate to KDVS here.
If you'd rather donate directly to TWIS just click the orange button to the left. There's rather cool TWIS schwag over there too. Just look. Go ahead. We dare you.Help Get The Word Out!
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current science news posted by Kirsten at 12/30/2008 03:33:00 PM
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