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What is in the This Week in Science Podcast?
This Week: Patience, Galling Wasps, Albatross, Human Pollution, Stock Markets and Cannabis, Concussion Skull, Drumming Chimpanzees, Rain Shadow Effect, Plastic Pollution, Gut-Brain Circuits, Axolotl Brains, Seasonal Plasticity, And Much More Science!
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Disclaimer, Disclaimer, Disclaimer!!!
The future.
It isn’t here yet.
We can’t know for certain what it will look like.
Or what it will sound, smell, or taste like…
While we can almost touch it
The future is always just out of reach.
Still, one of the things humans are famously good at is planning for the future.
Stocking up for winter, planting seeds in spring, investing for the future.
It’s what separates us from fish, apes, and fruit flies who famously are terrible at farming.
Though stock selections by captive chimpanzees typically beat wall street financial speculators.
The future, despite all of its not existing yet…
Is the one thing we all rely on when making decisions.
When we fail to consider the future,
When we attempt to ignore it
It has a strange way of happening anyway
Often with unforeseen consequences
More often with super foreseeable consequences
Because while the future is a mystery
The past and present are not.
And at present, we are setting the future up for some very challenging consequences.
And at present, science is working hard to overcome the problems of the present
Problems that, if science is successful, won’t follow us into the future.
What new problems will we have?
What old problems will we forget where a thing?
Future spoiler alert
This Week in Science
Some quick science news!
Patience
Pushing off the launch of the Artemis 1 mission yet again, NASA deals with a leak in the liquid hydrogen system for the SLS. Meanwhile, let’s continue to wonder at the images coming in from the JWST.
Galling wasp behavior
Ants, and Wasps, and Galls oh my!
Citizen sciences hunting Albatross
…with their eyes, on satellite maps!
Count some Albatrosses yourself!
Human Pollution
Is our skin polluting the air we breathe
How cannabis ruins stock markets
Aw shucks! We’re hurting the pharmaceutical companies!
Concussion Skull
Why you might not be able to get it thru your thick skull.
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It’s time for Blair’s Animal & Rain Corner!
Drumming chimpanzees
Why do they do it? and what does this mean??
Redefining the rain shadow effect
What side of the mountain you grew up on could influence how big you can get… if you are a small mammal at least.
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What science news does Justin have?
Plastic Pollution in the North Pacific
Hurray, we’re not the worst!
Gut-Brain Circuits for Fat Preference
Your gut has more of an influence on your brain than you may realize.
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Some Science stories with Dr. Kiki!
Axolotl Brain Regeneration
How can we get our brains to act like axolotls’?
Seasonal Plasticity
It’s all in our heads.
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Take a blast to the past…
What were we pronouncing at this time last year? This time last year We Interviewed Dr. Alok Patel re: Covid & Nova Now and discussed Disappearing Debris, Just Good News, Pay What?, Step On It, Old Chinese Beer, Muscular Microbes, Octopus Ladies, Cockatoo Tools, CRIBS For Coral, Microbial Rain, Genetic Friends, Personality Faces, And Much More!
This week 10 years ago TWIS we discussed Making Memories, Finding The Trace, Viral Tree Discovery, Deaf Gerbils, Ibuprofen Threatens Hearing, Smart Sharks, A New Monkey, Genome Uses, Physics Gets Weird, Stem Cell Protection, TWIWRD, And Much More! Take a blast to the past with TWIS!
