25 September, 2024 – Episode 988 – Slapfight Science Night

October 1st, 2024

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This Week: It’s Climate Week!, Bacterial Quick Change, Pollinators, Bronze-Age Cheese, Ancient AI, Magma Soup, Snake Origins, Ant Queens, Mile High Microbiota, Weird Galaxies, Virtual Fish Maze, Man Brain Cycle, Slapfights, Sleep On It, And Much More Science!

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Much of the world is hidden away….

We only see what we can see
And while seeing is believing for some…
The eye can be tricked
Belief can bias the eye
To see things that are not there
And not see things that are clearly visible

In science, things are often not seen, but observed

Observing is a skill that requires more than light and shadow
It requires a careful awareness of bias
A knowledge of observer limitations
And the ability to look beyond a surface
To see what is hidden beneath

Science is a method of finding hidden away things
Of understanding mechanisms and features
Of things that live in darkness
And cannot be seen by the naked eye

This is where our understanding of germ theory, gravity,
electromagnetism, general relativity,
chemistry, atomic theory, archeology, genetics, and evolution come from.

This is how medicines are discovered, how technology works,
How our history is known, and how we are now exploring the universe.

All of it possible only because we have done more than look
We have listened
To This Week in Science

Some quick science news!

It’s Climate Week!
How are scientists taking the Earth’s temperature now?

Bacterial quick-change artists
Or, how to change a dog into a God.

What’s good for the energy company is good for the native pollinators
…in this one very specific case…

Bronze-Age Cheese
It’s kefir!

AI discovery 2000 years ago in Peru
How much art is hidden in the Peruvian dirt?

Magma Soup
All magma might be the same… until it’s not.

Snake Origins
It’s NOT Africa!

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Blair’s Animal Corner!

Ant queens cannibalize and recycle their sick young
Ok, watch it mom, you don’t have to take reduce reuse recycle that seriously…

But have you tried not pooping?
Tree frog tadpoles don’t poop to keep their tiny water supply clean

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Mile High
Microbiota

Weird galaxies
Webb is finding them

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Some Science stories with Kiki!

Virtual Fish Maze
What’s it like to be a fish in a virtual maze?

Man Brain Cycle
Do men have a daily brain volume cycle?

Stop Slap Fights
Seriously, slap fights?

Sleep On It
Whatever it is, it can wait until morning.

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18 September, 2024 – Episode 987 – Take Out The Trash, Pour out the Cats

September 19th, 2024

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This Week: It’s IgNobel Time!, Thermal Collecting Coral, PLANT NEWS, Nanobreath, Food Dye Discovery, Get Out The Trash, Earth Rings, Bumblebee Memories, Decoy Dolphins, Liquid Cats, Spy Squids, Human Cement, ChatGTP does Good?, Learning By Thinking, Memory Trash, And Much More Science!

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To some, science is just an endless series of super-interesting observations
Fun facts, and unexpected realities of the world around us

For others, science is the art of turning those observations
Into life-saving treatments, technologies, and methods
Science as a tool for changing the world for the better

If we for a moment look back through time…
Not all the way back, just a little bit back
A hundred years ago we couldn’t cure an infection
50 years ago we couldn’t treat HIV
20 years ago we couldn’t have created the Covid vaccine
And today, we are closing in on eliminating many cancers, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinsons’ disease.

Science is more than a method of observation
It is bigger than the process of research
or the discoveries that come from it

Science is millions of people you have never met
dedicating their lives
To make yours better

So that you can indulge in the endless series of super interesting observations, fun facts, and unexpected realities of
This Week in Science

Some quick science news!

It’s IgNobel Time!
Who won the lauded awards this year?

Thermal Collecting Coral
How hot was it?

PLANT NEWS
Long stems are for Bats, and mirrors are for baby plants!

Nanobreath
What do carbon nanotubes have to do with astronauts breathing on the space station?

Get Out The Trash
Will you be part of the solution?

Earth Rings
Did our planet have rings in the past?

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Blair’s Animal Corner!

Bumblebees forget sometimes, too
it’s not just you making silly mistakes, that bee is too!

Decoy dolphin carcasses for conservation
Fake dead dolphins tell us how often they get reported if they were decoys with phone numbers on them…

Liquid Cats
Do cats know how liquid they are?

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Spy gadgets
Squid based!

Making Cement
From human bones

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Some Science stories with Kiki!

ChatGTP does Good?
Why is ChatGTP better at debunking conspiracy theories than knowledgeable people?

Learning By Thinking
Do AI algorithms think or just spit out results that make it look like they do?

Memory Trash
Take out the trash. Have better memory.

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This week 10 years ago TWIS we discussed Wiping Cell Memory, Not So Sweet, Three’s Company, Peacock Fools, Femme Fatale Bugs, Backyard Chickens, Hummers Got Sweet, Ape And Essence, Soft Robots Rule, Got Bags?, Psilocibin Or Cigs?, Nanobot Wine Test, A Baby’s Cry, And Much More! Take a blast into the past with TWIS!

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11 September, 2024 – Episode 986 – Have We Learned Anything?

September 12th, 2024

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This Week: Private Space, Welcome Home Starliner!!!, Fungal Factors, Deep Sea Dinner Bell, Food Dye Discovery, Peer review fraud detection, Egg Spa, Sperm Relief, ALAN is Back, How do I Look?, Don’t Eat Eels, Neander News, Crackpot Physics, Craving Activity, Anatomy of Consciousness, And Much More Science to be Learned!

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Science…
Started in the stars,
The Milky Way galaxy in which our solar system is spinning,
Was on full display each night.
Before the first hypothesis,
Before the logic, the language, or methods of mathematics,
We had the movement of the stars.
A nightly mystery that even today,
Can inspire wonder and curiosity.

The first science was naturally one of astronomy.
Of using our knowledge of the stars,
As a compass through time.
Hinting at an order to the universe,
With a predictability that followed the seasons.

In the thousands of years since,
The mystery of the motion of the stars has been solved.
The scale of our universe growing,
From a planet to a solar system.
From a solar system to a galaxy.
From a galaxy,
To billions of galaxies in an ever-expanding space-time.

And as much as we have discovered,
As much as we have understood,
Large mysteries remain yet unsolved.

Some of the most familiar and simplest-sounding questions,
Like why gravity exists… how life got started…
and why some people can’t seem to get enough of…

This Week in Science!

Some quick science news!

Private Space
Will the Polaris mission pull off a successful spacewalk? It’s already the furthest distance people have orbited the Earth since the Gemini missions.

Welcome home Starliner!!!
“We are pleased to see Starliner’s safe return,”

Fungal Factors
High-flying fungi? What does white-nose syndrome in bats have to do with kids? Does a hot future definitely favor fungi?

Deep Sea Dinner Bell
Scientists accidentally tell elephant seals when soup’s on

Food Dye Discovery
How does a common food dye additive make skin transparent?

Peer review fraud detection
Copying a template is still copying

Egg Spa / Sperm Relief
How does a common food dye additive make skin transparent?

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Blair’s Animal Corner!

ALAN is back
And he’s making spiders dumber

How do I look?
Cleaner wrasses check their size in the mirror before fights.

Don’t Eat Eels
Seriously, they aren’t worth the trouble.

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What Science News Does Justin Have?

Neander news
In sequence

Crackpot Physics
Published in Astroparticle Physics

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Some Science stories with Kiki!

Craving Activity
How does the brain’s activity parallel the sensation of craving?

Anatomy of Consciousness
What part of the brain turns off when under anesthesia?

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This week 10 years ago TWIS we discussed Life Under Ice, Seals And TB, Understanding TB, Deep Sea Dandruff, Dead Star Toothpaste, Zombie Ants!!!, Big Brained Fish, Animal Talk, Spiders Getting Bigger, Interview w/ Garth Sundem on Beyond IQ, And Much More! Take a blast into the past with TWIS!

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4 September, 2024 – Episode 985 – Will Robots Labor For Us?

September 5th, 2024

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This Week: Space Sails & Winds, Starliners Return, Radiant Cooling, Butterfly Wings, Dog Toys, Cat Play, Shark Hunts, Viking Culture, Thar Be Gold, ShroomBots, Neo Beta Unveiled, And More Science Robots!

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The following program contains science-related conversations,
Pulled from the headlines of recent research.

The hosts make every effort to ensure the conversations accurately reflect the content of the studies talked about

If you find a story or subject interesting and want to learn more,
Links to the studies can be found on our website.

There’s a lot whole of science going on,
And we offer just a slice of it here on,
This Week In Science!

Some quick science news!

Space Sails & Winds
Did NASA find something new last week?

Starliners return
It’s gonna be a quick trip.

Radiant Cooling
Can we build better cooling systems that use less energy?

Butterfly Wings
How do the butterfly wings get their spots?

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Kiki’s Animal Corner!

Dog Toys
How much does your dog love their toy?

Cat Play
Do cats REALLY play fetch?

Shark Hunts
Who hunts whom?

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Viking Culture
What’s up with all the violence

Thar Be Gold
Is there going to be a new gold rush thanks to this story?

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Some Science stories with Kiki!

ShroomBots
What happens when you put mushrooms together with robots?

Neo Beta Unveiled
Are we ready for humanoid AI robots?

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This week 10 years ago TWIS we discussed Your Vortex Needs Ice, Moving Rocks, Immense Heaven, Bird School, Salamander-boy, Fish Urine Aaphrodesiac!, Fearless Dreadnaughtus, Brain To Brain, Cancer Scanner, Martian Memory Wipe, Dead Russian Sex Geckos, Printed Robobirds, Eat Breakfast No Diabetes, Music Brain!, Pretty Low Sperm, And Much More! Take a blast into the past with TWIS!

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28 August, 2024 – Episode 984 – Stuck in Spaaaaaace!

August 29th, 2024

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This Week: Stucktronauts, Material Questions, Frozen Remains, Genetics Grammar, Megalithic mystery solved, Culling Crocodiles, Antlions Play Opossum, Sweet Bat News, NASA DART, Pong Goo, Brain Attack!, And Much More Science to get stuck with!

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I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth I know not where,
So swiftly it flew,
My eye could not follow in its flight.

Nasa launched a Dart above the air,
It hit an asteroid Dimorphos there.
So soundly did it hit it’s mark,
That millions of fragments did embark.

Sometime later, in an oak,
I found my arrow, still unbroke;
And now we all await the hour,
To see NASA’s homemade meteor shower.

Will it be a pretty sight?
Will it bombard geese in flight?
Time will tell if Dimorphos can best,
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test.

This, and other sciencey tales next here on,
This Week in Science!

Some quick science news!

Stucktronauts
It’s official. The two NASA astronauts who rode up to the ISS on Boeing Starliner will NOT be returning on it. Rather, the craft will return without crew; leaving the astronauts on the ISS until SpaceX can bring them back to Earth in February 2025.

Material Questions
Maybe dark matter isn’t WIMPy after all?

Frozen Remains
How much of history is stored in melting ice?

Genetics Grammar
Now that we can read the genetic letters, how do we understand the story?

Megalithic mystery solved
Ancient people were smart, too!

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Blair’s Animal Corner!

Culling crocodiles isn’t the answer
Once again, “just kill it” doesn’t cut it in complicated human-wildlife interactions

Antlions play opossum
And it’s so much more complicated than just playing dead

Sweet Bat News
How do bats not die from high blood sugar?

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NASA DART
Mission update

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Some Science stories with Kiki!

Pong Goo
What’s playing Pong now?

Brain Attack!
It Came From Inside the House… What is attacking our brain cells… from the inside?

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21 August, 2024 – Episode 983 – Wow! How Do We Know That?

August 22nd, 2024

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This Week: Not So Wow, Global Humidification, Dodo’s, Electron Excitement, Food Delivery, Humpback Whales, Spiders, Mammoths, Better Brain Movies, Building Memories, Photonic Consciousness, And Much More Science to Know!

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Things are starting to feel just a little less weird,

Yes, the weirdness of the world hasn’t gone away.

There’s a war raging between a former superpower and Ukraine, a genocide taking place in Palestine.

Women in several US states continue to suffer from the rollback of their civil rights, a convicted criminal who helped roll back those rights is running for President of the United States for a 4th time.

Astronauts were sent to space without a return ticket.

The greatest threat to humanity continues to be talked about as if it isn’t already happening.

And in recent weeks, something has changed that has put the weirdness into perspective.

Not to get too political on a science podcast

But the current Democratic ticket for the executive branch just seems a whole lot more normal than anything they are up against and being a whole lot more normal is just what the world needs right now.

That and another episode of

This Week in Science!

Some quick science news!

Not So Wow?
Are astronomers getting closer to understanding the WOW signal?

Global Humidification
What’s better than global warming?

Were dodos slow and stupid??
Probably not, they’re just not around to defend themselves!

Electron Excitement
What did we learn about a cloud of electrons in physics class?

Who’s food is better?
Food delivery Vs. grocery delivery.

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Blair’s Animal Corner!

Humpbacks use tools!
The question is, does a bubble count as a tool??

The most disturbing spider news to date
Weekend at Firefly’s with a grizzly twist.

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How did early Humans take down mammoths
To kill mammoths in the Ice Age, people used planted pikes, not throwing spears, researchers say

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Some Science stories with Kiki!

Better Brain Movies
How can researchers improve how they image brain cells?

Building Memories
Who could have imagined that learning & memory is more complicated than we thought?

Many Copies?
Do different neurons store information differently?

Photonic Consciousness
Do quantum entangled photons make us conscious?

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14 August, 2024 – Episode 982 – Is This A Mayo-Science Fusion Podcast?

August 15th, 2024

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This Week: Crusty Content, More Mayo!, Horses, Lemurs, Hot Hearing, Shifting Values, Music Helps!, Memory Mechanism, And Much More Science!

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This podcast was not created by an algorithm.
The hosts of this podcast are real human beings.
The voices, images, and opinions of the hosts come from them,
and have not been generated in any way by complex association matrices made to seem intelligent
when in fact, they are not.
The hosts of this podcast have lived unique lives
learned multitudes,
embrace uncertainty & curiosity,
and are excited to share interesting findings, questions, and conversations
with you
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Some quick science news!

Crusty Content
What did we learn from breaking through the crust? And how hard is it really to shoot lasers at things on the moon?

More Mayo!
Why are people talking about mayonnaise and fusion?

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Nice to horse your acquaintance!
Horses are much smarter than we give them credit for!

Lemurs are smart too!
And what does that mean for us other primates??

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Some Science stories with Kiki!

Hot Hearing
Can we really hear temperature?

Shifting Values
Do we change like the seasons?

Music Helps!
Does music have anti-depressant properties?

Memory Mechanism
Is there an alternate explanation for how some animals remember locations?

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7 August, 2024 – Episode 981 – Will Science Take Us From Tropes to Hopes on This Oblate Sphere… oid?

August 8th, 2024

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This Week: Interview W/Dr. Emily Fischer, Cats, Dogs, COVID and Flu Nasal Vaccines, Concrete, Greenland, Thick Leaves, Sea Lions, Racing Horses, Starliner, Early Evolution, Rock Art, Brains, Earbud Fatigue, And Much More Science!

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The world is ready for a change!

Not ready in the,
stocked up on emergency supplies,
Packed a snack,
Plenty of water,
Extra underwear, sort of ready…

But in the stocked up on greenhouse gasses,
Melting ice pack,
Plenty of sea rise,
Extra heat, sort of way.

The tipping point has already happened,
The change is coming,
And while there’s not nothing we can do about it.
There is nothing we are currently doing that will be enough to avoid it.

The change is coming,
The future will be different,
Some islands will disappear,
Coastlines will be rearranged.

The changed climate will alter the survivability,
Of plants and animals,
Habitats will shift, relocate, transform,
and will establish new biomes.

With the change will come tremendous loss,
And unique opportunities for success,
As life finds a way,
Under a new climate landscape.

All of this has happened before,
And will happen again.
Only this time,
The modern human civilizations will be a part of it,
And our one chance to be ready for it depends on,
This Week in Science!

Some quick science news!

Headline News in Brief
Cats and those they love.
Dog with smaller brains,
Nasal vaccines for flu & COVID?
Crushing concrete for good.

When Greenland was last green
With images from NASA

Streetlight’s thick-leafed manifesto
Thicker leaves mean a harder time for bugs to eat them, upsetting the ecosystem.

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The Interview!

We’d like to welcome our guest, Dr. Emily Fischer, to TWIS. You can find her at the Science Moms website.

Dr. Emily Fischer is a Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University (CSU). She is also an affiliate faculty member of the CSU School of Global Environmental Sustainability (SoGES). When she’s not teaching, Dr. Fischer leads a number of initiatives designed to provide high-quality mentorship to the next generation. She has been awarded a Macelwane Medal by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in recognition of significant early career contributions to the Earth Sciences as well as the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Atmospheric Chemistry Committee Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award.

Emily is a mom of two daughters, ages 5 and 8. Colorado is home now, but she is originally from Rhode Island and misses the ocean terribly in the summer. She likes to paint anything — toes, canvases, furniture, etc. — and eat olives (any kind will do). She likes watching romantic comedies, reading books with her kids, and reading approximately half of each of the books chosen by her book club.

Dr. Kiki and Dr. Fisher get atmospheric in this fun interview you’ll want to listen to again and again!

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Sea Lions – the scientists of tomorrow, today!
Researchers equip sea lions with cameras to see the deepest parts of the ocean yet unexplored

Racing horses have guts
Particular gut bacteria that is…

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What Science News Does Justin Have?

When will the Starliner crew return?
Boeing doesn’t know, do you?

Early evolution
Of small body size in Homo floresiensis

Rock Art

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Some Science stories with Kiki!

Brain To Brain?
What if we could communicate without anything BUT our brains?

Earbuds For Fatigue
What if your earbuds could keep you awake at the wheel?

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This week 10 years ago TWIS we discussed Taking A Comet’s Temp, Taking A Comet’s Picture, Ebola Chat, Momtopus, Deliberate Jellyfish, Butterfly Memories, The Impossible Drive, Human Shields, Kinder Gentler Society, Reprogram Your Brain, And Much More! Take a blast into the past with TWIS!

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