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What is in the This Week in Science Podcast?
This Week: LIGO, Mummies, Language & AI, Policing, Pigs, Roosters, Birds Aren’t Real, Fuzzy Stems, Prehistoric Gender Roles, Zoomies, Memory Codes, And Much More!
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Disclaimer, Disclaimer, Disclaimer!!!
We are about a week away from the Celtic festival of Samhain.
A celebration welcoming the harvest at the end of summer.
Usually held around November 1st,
Marking the transition from summer to winter.
Fall had apparently yet to be invented.
During Samhain, people dressed in costumes and lit bonfires to ward off ghosts.
They believed, or participated in a tradition, that the souls of the dead
returned to their homes on that day.
We know it today as Halloween.
Or all hallows eve
In part thanks to Christianity
which created All Saints day
In a long tradition of borrowing from pagan traditions in order to create new ones
A rebranding that might have been helpful
When locals under church rule still followed old traditions
While the air this time of year is just right
for the most superstitious of holidays
You need not be superstitious to believe in ghosts
We are often visited by ghosts from the past here on the show
Scientists who test their ideas against the Universe,
Long after they have passed
Creature of enormous size
Leaving footprints in our imaginations
Entire branches of humanity that once walked the earth
Entice us with their stories
And tonight a girl, long dead
Will show her face for the first time in centuries
Here at TWIS we would like to wish you all happy TWIS-o-WEEN in the coming week
And hope that any ghosts visiting your home
Don’t stay any longer than another episode of
This Week in Science!
Some quick science news!
The LIGO Limit
How has LIGO managed to make its measurements even more sensitive?
Face of a mummy
From Peru
Language Isn’t Real
Or, is AI actually teaching us something about how language impacts thought.
Is policing prejudiced?
I wanna say duh?
Pig Welfare
What do people want? Properly treated pigs!
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Dr. Kiki’s Bird House!
Rooster Recognition
Does this mean that roosters are people, too?
Birds Aren’t Real
Is this pigeon study proof that birds are really robots?
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What science news does Justin have?
Sunflower stems
Can save the blueberries!
Woman the hunter
Challenging prehistoric gender roles
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Some Quick Science stories with Kiki!
Unstimulating Zoomies
Apparently, Zoom video calls aren’t a replacement for the real thing.
Memory Codes
How does the brain encode memory? Maybe this study is a beginning to teasing out the code?
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Take a blast into the past…
What were we discussing at this time last year? This time last year We discussed It’s TWISoween 2022!, MOND Evidence, UV for Better Plants, Atmospheric Electric Bees, Ancient Viruses, Gene Editing, Hybrid Viruses, INTERVIEW W/ Dr. Vivek Kumar, Endangered Birds, They speak!!, Ancient Britons, Tentacle Robot, Self-Suppression, And Much More Science!
This week 10 years ago TWIS we discussed Textbooks Stay Sciencey, Mistaken Homosexuality, Marmosets Are Polite, Hubble Sees Old things, Lasers To The Moon, Epigenetics And Age, Roosters, Gold In The Trees, Carbon Issues, Piggybacking Virus Tells Tales, Protected By Allergies, And Much More! Take a blast into the past with TWIS!
