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What is in the This Week in Science Podcast?
This Week: Cancer Remission, We’re in the bad place, Noise pollution, Marsbucha, Rock on!!!, Zinc Poles, Ladies, always ask about your birth control, Ugly fish, Kelp, Otters, Conservatives die sooner, Welfare, Metabolites, Fungal Vision, Fungeyes, No Pole Swap?, And Much More…
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Disclaimer, Disclaimer, Disclaimer!!!
The world is going to hell in a handbasket but there are things we can do to prevent it.
We need the willpower that’s it, just the willpower to do it!
We can halt the rise of carbons in the atmosphere that threatens our cities, our food sources, and the intricate web of every living creature on the planet.
If we have the willpower to make some changes we can reduce gun deaths, homelessness, poverty, and hate if we have the willpower to make some changes.
We can overcome illness, manage pathologies, and cure diseases if we have the willpower to make some changes.
The changes aren’t impossible, they aren’t even hard the changes we need to reach a sustainable, healthy, secure future are already available to us!
We just lack the willpower to act, to do, to engage and actually, that’s not true, willpower has nothing to do with it.
We just lack the knowledge of how to act, how to do, how to engage and actually, again, that’s also not entirely true because we have the knowledge of how to act, how to do, and how to engage we know the outcomes of actions.
We know the outcomes of change.
And we know the outcome of the status quo.
If you’re not concerned with the threats of the status quo if you aren’t activated to do some form of activism if you are not interested if you do not care you have not been listening to This Week in Science.
An ocean of quick science news you can appreciate!
Cancer Remission
In a small study, all patients treated with immunotherapy for rectal cancer are in remission.
We’re in the bad place
CO2 over 420ppm
Noise pollution works on human children
Noisy schools had students with concentration problems, proving once again that humans are just animals.
Marsbucha
Kombucha microbes survived the harsh environment of simulated Mars thanks to cellulose suggesting the bacterial polysaccharide might be a good signal for life on other planets.
Rock on!!! Life will be found everywhere
RNA spontaneously forms on basalt lava glass.
Zinc Poles
Zinc concentrations were essential to life in the polar oceans.
Ladies, always ask about your birth control
…cause your DR might not tell you… Some anesthetics have impacts on birth control, but many physicians neglect to mention it.
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It’s time for Blair’s Animal Corner!
Ugly fish need our help!
No surprises in a finding that ugly fish need more conservation assistance, while pretty fish are well… sitting pretty…
Kelp to the rescue!
Kelp forests reduce ocean acidification, so bring on the seaweed, baby!!!
Otters pay attention to their buddies
They watch to see if something is safe, but when it comes to problem-solving, it’s every otter for themselves!
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What science news does Justin have?
Conservatives die sooner
Correlation is not causation but it doesn’t look good
Better outcomes with welfare
Helping people apparently, helps people who knew?
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Metabolites Matter
A bacterial metabolite from the gut causes cell death in the brain.
Fungal Vision or Fungeyes
Fungi with eyes? What?!?
No Pole Swap?
A new study says that we are NOT due for a switch of our magnetic poles!
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Take a blast to the past…
What were we diving into at this time last year? This time last year We discussed Reviving Life, Robots For Kids, Outsmarting Bacteria, Whipped Happiness, Metal Core?, Schooled Megalodon, No Moon Moving, COVID Update, Puppies!, Hangry Fruit Flies, Mental Health Diet, Better Learning, Do Your Math, And Much More…
This week 10 years ago TWIS we discussed Coffee, Cigarettes, Vampire Spiders, Birds Of A Different Color, Ants Working For Mark Zuckerberg, And Much More! Take a blast to the past with TWIS!
