16 April, 2025 – Episode 1011 – You Can’t Trust This

April 17th, 2025

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This Week: Scalable Meat, Marriage, Gorillas, Crpws, Gowanus Canal, Fiddler Crabs, Bird Song, Cats, Healthcare, Sensory, and Much More Science you can trust!

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A university that has been operating in the United States since before there was a United States just lost billions of dollars in government funding.
Much of it was heading to fund ongoing scientific research
Including cancer and genetic therapies for a host of diseases.

All because Harvard refused to give in to political demands

The retaliation has not stopped there, as the government is now attempting to revoke the university’s tax-exempt status and bar it from hosting international students.

If these actions against higher education seem alarming,
Keep in mind the many institutions that have already allowed the government to take control to dictate how they educate and who they educate.

There are of course more cruel injustices being committed currently
By an administration that seems to mean and rueful of the American dream
Defunding, deporting, imprisoning and defying all that America stands for…
But Harvard stood up
For themselves, for their students, and for…
This Week in Science

Trust TWIS with this week’s science news!

Scalable Meat
What’s been holding lab-grown meat back???

1/2 of marriages end in divorce
The other half end in death

Gorillas love truffles!
And they don’t care that truffle fries are played out, Karen!

Shapely Crows
Crows can count, but can they do geometry?

Oh,
Gowanus Canal is teeming with extremophiles.

Trust In Science
Why don’t conservative Americans trust science, and AI avatars help?

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Blair’s Animal Corner!

When a fiddler crab tells you how big they are, you believe him!
The size and weight of their claw completely change the sound of hitting the sand, so the ladies really can tell.

Bird song is different depending on personality
So no, I can’t do it with more feeling!

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Some Science stories with Justin!

Where do cats come from?
The complex origin story of domestic cats

How not to run healthcare
Preventable pregnancy deaths

Science stories you can trust with Kiki!

Touchy Feely
How does the sense of touch differ in people with autism?

It’s TWIS Mail Bag Time! ?

TWIS Minion MiLady Carol from Australia writes in about freezing Avocados in Australia, TWIS Minion Beth was inspired by Blair’s Animal Corner story in Eps. 983 about orb weaver spiders catching fireflies, and Matthew thanks us for the mention of the Ship of Theseus philosophical parable.

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09 April, 2025 – Episode 1010 – How Dire is the Science News?

April 10th, 2025

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This Week: Not Dire Wolves, Miso & Moonglass, Bad Dogs, Mouse Brains & Human Intelligence, Inflammation & Behavior, And Much More Science!

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Some quick science news!

Not Dire Wolves
Did Colossal de-extinct Dire wolves? No. No, they did not.

Miso & Moonglass
What will we be making in space?

Bad Dogs
How bad are dogs for the environment?

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Mouse Brains & Human Intelligence
How much can a mouse brain tell us about ourselves?

Inflammation & Behavior
Is there a link between the onset of inflammation & behavioral modulation?

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2 April, 2025 – Episode 1009 – It’s Just so Taxing

April 4th, 2025

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This Week: Reverence for Youth, Venom, Fossils, Bird Disguises, Bats, Bird Road Rage, NDEs, Global Warming, Taxing Science, And Much More!

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Before we get into the science, let’s do a quick refresher on tariffs.
Tariffs aren’t typical science fair but in the general interest of factsplaining…
Let’s explain what they are. A tax.
Essentially a sales tax, but they work slightly differently.
A sales tax is applied to consumer goods when you buy a product.
A tariff is a tax on imported goods.
Typically applied to select goods in an effort to protect native manufacturing.

A blanket tariff is then essentially a sale tax on all imported consumer goods.
Blanket tariffs and sales taxes are specifically consumer burdens.
And nobody has ever suggested adding tariffs as a way to combat inflation
Blanket tariffs = more expensive goods = which is the definition of higher inflation.

They also tend to affect financially disadvantaged people more than wealthy ones…
As the wealthy tend to spend a much smaller percentage of their income on consumer goods,
And therefore contribute a smaller portion of their income to sales tax or tariff increases.

Tariffs are not necessarily a bad thing, they can make domestic products more competitive, protecting worker wages and industries… a common tactic of social democracies
They could be used to support social services, universal healthcare, education and scientific research… like in a social democracy

But to apply them after 40 years of outsourcing… in a post-manufacturing economy.
While dismantling government services, education, and investment in science…
The things those taxes could have contributed to?

And following that up with tax cuts for the wealthy who are, again, not personally affected by the sales tax increase… as it represents a small change to the margin of the margins to them.

Raising taxes on consumers while cutting spending on consumers, in order to cut taxes for the already wealthy…
Is wealth redistribution
from the poor, from the working class, from the middle class…
to the wealthiest investor class… exacerbating wealth inequality

But hey, maybe that’s the plan?

Tax your brain with this week’s science news!

Reverence for Youth
Did wealthy people appropriate youth social status?

Holy venomous viruses, Batman!
Plants, fungi, and viruses oh my!

Fascinating Fossils
New life form found on Earth!

Male hummingbirds?
Birds dress as men to avoid the male bird gaze?!

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Bats avoid rough collisions
What’s their strategy?

Birds get road rage
Galapagos traffic is just crazy!

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Some Science stories with Justin!

NDEs are real!
The truth behind near-death experiences

Religious leaders trust the science of global warming?
They just never mention it.

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26 March, 2025 – Episode 1008 – Where is the Group Chat for Science?

March 27th, 2025

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This Week: Pig Livers, Planet Power, Meme Coin, Grabby Glucose, Genomic Bottleneck, Lithium Mining, Baby Brains, Shark Sounds, And Much More Science!

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Science feels like it is under attack lately…
And it is…
but it’s not alone.
The current executive branch of the United States government
has decided that the American people are fraudsters.

That anything spent on the American people is a waste of time and money

They have determined… that the resources Americans have pooled together through taxes and invested in ourselves is a form of theft.
From who?
Policies supported by the people, paid for by the people, in order to keep us healthy, educated, and secure…
Generational commitments between citizens… each giving a little for a greater good… for infrastructure, parks, clean water, clean air, untainted food, and defense of basic human rights…

We all pitch in to keep small farms working, teachers teaching, and the elderly housed. We pitch in to provide for ourselves, our neighbors, our communities, and our nation.

A pooling of resources that has put American science ahead of the world in medicine, military, and technology…

And now… almost overnight, America has been deemed a fraud.
And most insultingly of all, by individuals who have not been pitching in their fair share… but now are looking to redistribute the peoples’ collective efforts.

The executive branch has not cut waste or fraud, returning lost revenue to the national investments or back to the people.

They are in the process of doing just the opposite, diverting the nation’s collective investments into private schemes.

Science may be under attack, but so is everything else that makes America great. Everything that is except for… This Week in Science
Coming up next.

Hear this week’s science chat!

Pig Liver For People
What happens when you give a person a pig liver transplant?

Maybe this explains America?
Maybe

Planet Power
Can power be created by the rotation of the Earth?

Meme Coin Group
To determine science funding

Grabby Glucose
Does glucose always get used for energy in the cells?

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Genomic bottleneck
Lag in conservation evaluations

Lithium mining
And fresh water

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Wrap up chat with Kiki!

Baby Brains
Why can’t we remember our earliest experiences?

Brain Waste
Is the aging brain merely a problem of waste removal?

Shark Sounds
Hey! Sharks make sounds!

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19 March, 2025 – Episode 1007 – Can You Hear Us Now?

March 20th, 2025

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This Week: Space Landings, Euclid, Sound Bending, CRISPR, Tsunamis, The Avocado Connection, Mouse Morticians, Mouse Chatter, Bird Chatter, And Much More Science to Hear!

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Two NASA astronauts…
Who’ve been working odd jobs and taking on temp work
aboard the International Space Station
After definitely not being stranded since last summer
But operating under a prolonged nine-month contingency plan…
Are back on Earth at long long last…
The capsule carrying Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore splashed down off the Gulf coast of Florida shortly before 6 p.m. Florida time on Tuesday.
Currently, the astronauts are getting reacquainted with loved ones, gravity, and the concept of up and down.

The longest an astronaut has continuously persisted in space?
Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov… was in orbit for over 14 months at 437 days

What is the longest a science podcast has been on the air?

This Week in Science!

Hear this week’s science news!

Space Landings
What’s up in space this week?

Euclid
Opens data treasure trove, offers a glimpse of deep fields

Sound Bending
What’s that? Can you hear me now? What about now?

CRISPR-Cascade
Test detects bloodstream infections in minutes without amplification

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Tsunamis in California?
California coastal cities face heightened flood danger from a tsunami

The Avocado Connection
Maternal diet and infant allergies

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Science in your ears with Kiki!

Mouse Morticians
Do mice actually try to resuscitate mice that are unconscious?

Mouse Chatter
What happens when mice get human genes for vocalization?

Bird Chatter
What leads to local song dialects in birds?

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12 March, 2025 – Episode 1006 – Knowledge Dies in Silence

March 13th, 2025

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This Week: Space, Space, and More Space!, Plastic Plant Problems, Bigger Cells, Democracy & Murder?, East Asian Lineage, Alzheimer’s, It’s All in Your Head, And Much More Science Knowledge!

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The disclaimer you would normally hear in this segment
Something about the importance of science in society
Yadda yadda
Has been replaced.

As of the airing of this broadcast…
The US government has incarcerated a student for practicing free speech on a university campus.

Mahmoud Khalil was actively involved in protesting the war on GAZA at Columbia University last year.

His green card, which was in good standing, was revoked and Khalil was sent to a detention center in Jena, Louisiana, presumably for being in the country illegally… though it was seemingly only revoked in order to arrest him.

The reason he was sent to a detention center in Jena, Louisiana, not New York where he was arrested… likely a form of federal judge shopping, courts being more conservative there…. But it also takes Khalil far from friends, family, and lawyers… making his defense more difficult.

America… students, citizens, visitors from abroad… we warned
This is a violation of everything we hold sacred.
This is not law enforcement.
This is government opinion enforced by force.
This is exactly what tyranny looks like.
And it does not happen in a free country.

With that, I now bring us back to
This Week in Science!

Sharing our Knowledge of this week’s science news!

SPAAAAAAAAACE…
What’s up in space this week?

More Space!
Another way to look for life in spaaaace

Plastic Plant Problems
What happens when plants eat microplastics?

Bigger Cells Better View
Who needs a powerful microscope when you can just enlarge the subject?

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Is democracy safe?
We can figure that out with murder?

East Asians
Do they originate from a different human lineage?

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Science in your head with Kiki!

New Alheimer’s Targets
Are we making progress in understanding Alzheimer’s disease?

Stop Speaking
It’s all in your head.

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5 March, 2025 – Episode 1005 – Time Keeps On Slippin’

March 6th, 2025

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This Week: Firefly & Astronauts, Weekends and Surgeries, Narwhal Tooth, Fusion Update, Heart Health Watch, Sound Spring, Sharks, Rat Sommeliers, Processed Foods, Mediterranean Diet, AI, Synthetic Intelligence, Love Types, And Much More Time for Science!

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SCIENCE is under attack.
The value of research is being diminished, ridiculed, and defunded for politically and financially suspect motives…

This is nothing new.

Science has always needed the support of society to succeed, and in some cases, to survive
Without that support, science, and the great power of knowledge that it commands
Can simply go away.

If people with knowledge do not share that knowledge, the knowledge dies.
The importance of research is to test and try, replicate, and validate
to publish new knowledge
Is what makes a modern society possible.

Many seem to have forgotten, or never to have learned
That without a strong scientific culture and community
Societies fail to thrive, struggle to succeed, and in some cases
They may not survive.

Water is not sanitary without science.
You will not defeat sickness, injury, outbreaks, or pandemics without science.
Energy is unattainable without science.
Education without science is not education, it is indoctrination.
You can not have a strong military without science.
Imagine an economy without science.
Where farmers, aircraft, shipping, and fishing boats plan their days
without GPS or weather forecasts.
Buildings, businesses, energy, electronics, financial systems, healthcare, agriculture, logistics, law enforcement, vehicles, military, and communications all rely on science

A society without science will be poor, sick, uninformed, undefended, and unable to understand that they are being exploited.
Democracy itself relies on science, on reason, on critical thinking for rational decision-making.

Without it… the modern world goes dark.
But fear not, we’ll keep a light on for ya right here on
This Week in Science

Some quick science news!

Firefly & Astronauts
Firefly landed, but what’s up with the stranded astronauts on the ISS?

Do weekends affect surgical outcomes?
It’s an old trope, but is the “weekend effect” real?

What are narwhal teeth for?
Thanks to drones, we have an idea!

Fusion Update
What’s the newest challenge for sustainable power from nuclear fusion?

Heart attack sensing watch
It will call emergency services for unresponsive users

Sound Spring
How does sound get turned into hearing?

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Blair’s Animal Corner!

Sharks! They’re important!
But in far more ways than you think…

Rat sommeliers!
It’s a fresh take on Ratatouille, but WHY??

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Some Science stories with Justin!

Processed foods
They’re bad for you, who knew?? Everyone, everyone knew.

Mediterranean diet
It’s good for you… or is it?

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Let’s Wrap up Science Time with Kiki!

More Intelligent Artificial Intelligence
How could AI be better?

Synthetic Intelligence?
What are the researchers behind the Pong-playing Brain-In-A-Dish up to now?

Love Types
Who loves how?

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26 February, 2025 – Episode 1004 – Need a Few Science Talking Points?

February 28th, 2025

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