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This Week in Science – 17 March, 2009

Potential Purposes of Prions, Snakes In Greenland, Insect Memory, Science Pop-Quiz, Catching The Higgs, Geocentrism and Global Warming, Robots on the Catwalk, Dark Matters, and the Sand Worms.

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17 March 2009 | KDVS, animals, astrophysics, astrophysics, biology, ecology, end of the world, energy, evolution, genetics, global warming, insects, mad cow, mathematics, paleontology, physics, podcast, reptiles, robots, science, science and politics, space, space exploration, world robot domination | Comments

One Response to “This Week in Science – 17 March, 2009”

1 wilson Chua 18 July 2009 @ 6:15 pm

Hi Kirsten, Justin,

Transcript is here:
http://www.futuregen.sg/business-process/transcription-service/transcript-twis-org-march-17-2009/

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