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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
All Mixed Up
On this week's program we talk about why the oceans are all mixed up, but the Neanderthals weren't. There's also a question of mixing up the genome to search for new life. Researchers want to teach the children well. Natural selection becomes unintuitive. We tell a space-age love story. Nanotechnology gets under your skin. It's the end of the world as we know it... and it's worse than we thought. I give Justin a health tip. And, we worry for a moment about hemorrhagic viruses on US soil.
Also, we announced the February Question of the Month...
From Trebetheric: "What is it about spices that people have evolved to like them? Is it just a fluke of their unique molecular structures (like some drugs)? Could the fact that they have been used to keep foods fresher allowed enough time for humans to evolve a taste for spice? Is there any advantage to them? This is something I think about every time I eat spicy foods."Answer this question in the forums.
Music on this week's show is thanks to Anton Barbeau, Mike Garfield, My Robot Friend, and Jake Mann.
Listen to it all here.
Next week, we will return with more science news...
TWIS UPDATES!!!1) TWIS Book Club is reading 'Your Inner Fish' by Neil Shubin this month. Get your copy here:
2) Don't forget to submit your answer to the Question of the Month at the TWIS forums!
3) I am accepting submission for the 2009 TWIS Science Music Compilation. Deadline is March 1st! Email kirsten at this week in science dot com with links or files or questions.
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current science news posted by Kirsten at 2/17/2009 11:12:00 AM
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