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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
The Short End of the Stick
This week's show is short! It's all my fault, and I'm sorry that we weren't able to bring you the entire hour that you have come to expect.
However, we did our best to get as much science into today's show as possible.
We started with some really cool chemistry research into the viability of the "RNA world hypothesis". Then it was all about defrosting prime beef and cloning. La Nina rears her pretty (?) head. Fruit flies prove it's hard to go back to where you came from. Mosquitoes sing some pretty love songs, and it might help to defeat them. Memristors become more and more viable. Scientists have fun, too. Tetris is good for more than time-wasting. And, we give props to the President.
Music on this week's show is thanks to My Robot Friend, and Chris Taylor.
Listen to it all here.
Next week, we interview autism expert, Simon Baron-Cohen. And, yes, he is Borat's cousin.
TWIS UPDATES!!!1) We are taking submissions for the 2009 TWIS science music compilation album! Send us your science-y and TWIS-themed songs (mp3, wav, or aiff formats), or your album art, and we'll see if they make the cut. Deadline is March 1st.
2) The January TWIS book club (twisbookclub.ning.com) book-of-the-month is Sex, Drugs, and DNA by Michael Stebbins.
Buy it here: Sex, Drugs and DNA: Science's Taboos Confronted
3) 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.
4) 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.
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