December 9th, 2011
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Flu In The Lab, Red Matter, Flavor Networks, Making The Earth Move, TWIThe End Of The World, Worms In Space!!!, Oak Ridge Shorties, Sex On The Brain, And Much More…
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The modern age has been brought to you by knowledge …
We didn’t invent this modern age, and we don’t own the knowledge that made it possible.
We owe our place in this world to the knowledge that has been lent to us over many millennia…
It is on loan to us from the past, and we must repay it with interest.
Interest in physics… interest in biology… Interest in human health…
Interest in engineering… art and design
Interest in literature… philosophy and democracy
Interest in math, language, and cosmology
We must take serious interest in our own education, as a sacred duty to the past and future generations of this earth.
We are uniquely situated in the present day, as were past generations in their present days past…
For like them, we too are at the pinnacle of all human history…
They took that opportunity to push us forward into the modern age.
To unlock the secrets of the atomic building blocks, to cure diseases and improve our standard of living, to launch us into orbit, take us to the moon, explore the solar system and universe beyond
They invented the automobile, the satellite, the space shuttle and the hubble telescope.
They invented the telephone, the radio, the television, the computer and microwave oven.
They cured polio, chicken pox, small pox, measles, mumps, diphtheria and typhoid fever…
We have their hard work to thank for where we are today, not our own.
And in the interest of honoring the great minds that moved us forward and the tradition of hard work and dedication to the future we offer you…
This Week in Science… Coming up next.
Flu in the lab. Want more on this story? Check out TWiV!
Newly discovered red matter
Flavor Networks – http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27372/
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The ability to make the earth move… with proper lubrication
End of the world…
Corals and pH
Climate sensitivity
Climate perception
Water, food
Durban
Worms… in space!!!
4 or 5 great short stories out of Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Cleavage Wars
Naked Brains
Sex with Neanderthals
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November 30th, 2011
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Prostate Pill Problems, A Faster Internet, From Whence Came The Gamburtsevs, Dropping The Climate To Sell, Alien Rats, Burning Then Dying, And Much More…
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The universe as we know it now
Is not the universe as we once believed it to be
It’s bigger… smaller…
and much more complex than any of the great cosmic ponderers of the past could possibly have imagined
Now, as always, we stand on the brink of history, at the pinnacle of scientific and technological capability…
What we will learn in the next wave of scientific discoveries will cover more ground, uncover more mysteries and produce a more detailed picture of the universe than the one we now see…
Along the way to this greater discovering, we will encounter strange new possibilities,
unintuitive potential universes in a multiverse of time and space probabilities that force us to conceive of our reality as only one amongst many others…
as though our entire universe is but a single page of a reference book upon a library shelf surrounded by volume upon volume of cosmic narratives…
And then again… if the past has taught us one thing about the universe it is that it has always been strange…
Just when you’re sure of one you’ll find it’s gone and made a change…
In attempt to keep you in tune with at least one version of reality we bring you
This week in science… coming up next
Is the pill causing increases in prostate cancer?
A faster internet on the way!
Gamburtsev origins news… not once, but twice!
A Frozen Planet treading on thin ice?
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Alien rats…
First comes the burning, then the dying…
And, the pain.
The Leonids are here!
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November 25th, 2011
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Of Monkeys And Men, Mighty Mice, Guts And Brains, Toxo Chem Lab, Predicting Risk, Attention And Vision, Magnetic Moon, You In A Dish, And Much More…
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The lunatics are running the asylum…
And while we all may have been assuming the asylum staff would be able to get things back under control, it is quite clear now that the gig of being an asylum staffer was not a career choice, and hardly worth returning to under adverse conditions… that or they have been eaten by the inmates… In any case…
The way in which the governments of the world have set their priorities seem to indicate that they have no idea how civilization got where it is today…
It was science! Not investment banks that discovered how to harness electricity, how to light our homes, power a motor, and how to build the first computers
It was science! Not service providers that unlocked the secrets of gravity, of rocketry, of physics that launched the satellites into space
It was science! Not massive media conglomerates that invented radio, television, analog and digital recordings…
It is science! That saves us from illness before we get sick and rescues us again when we do… Not health insurance companies or pharmaceutical companies…
It is science that has lead the way over and over again throughout human history and it is science in which we must trust to lead us through the current problems we face…
But you won’t hear talk like that anywhere other than…
This week in science!… coming up next
Egalitarian monkeys in Brazil…
selective advantage for first human colonists…
Creating Mighty mouse…
Does our large brain stem from our guts?
Toxo alters brain chemistry…
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Computer predicts breast cancer risk…
Looking versus seeing…
Moon’s magnetized rocks…
Pituitary gland in a dish…
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November 9th, 2011
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Long Live The Mice!, Oh The Climate Is A’Changing, Changing The Rules, Putting Off Inevitability, Memory Doors, Astronaut Eyes, Bacterial Swap Meet, Bacteria Vamps, And Much More…
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Mice living healthier!
Justin rants on Chlymatia, Science, and Skeptics who used to be Skeptics…
One more reason to stop climate change.
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Electromagnetism found to vary. Be wary.
Higgs hiding for another year…
The brain’s rich club.
Doorway to your memory
Astronaut Eyes…
Humans… bacterial trading cards
Vampire bacteria
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October 26th, 2011
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A Malaria Vaccine, Gypsy King Ancestors, A Near Miss?, Carbonated Rivers, Not So Faster Than Light?, High On Depression, Math Anxiety, No TV For Baby, New Planets, An Artistic Challenge, And Much More…
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In the following hour you will hear stories that are neither true nor false
Neither fact nor fiction
Neither six of this nor half dozen of the other
Neither concrete, nor abstract nor a hazy concoction of the two as agreed upon by anonymous vote…
What you will hear instead is the absolute best guess of what reality has taken place in the past, and what realities we are likely to undergo in the future…
This system of gathering from past observations to predict the future is called science
And while nothing in science is ever as certain as the whimsical beliefs of mankind…
Certainly it has its place as a backup plan for when our ideal world fails to materialize…
Though occasionally our whimsical nature is rewarded as we see when we faithfully tune into another episode and find…
This Week in Science… coming up next
A Malaria Vaccine
On Course to Eradication
Gypsy King Ancestors
A Kraken of a comet
Carbonated Rivers
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Maybe Not So Super… Luminal
High Praise for Depression
Turn Off Your TV – http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/10/its-official-to-protect-babys-brain-turn-off-the-tv.ars
New Planets
And, Greedy, Party Crashing Stars
An Artistic Challenge
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October 19th, 2011
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A Kraken Tale, Toothy Pterosaurs, Coloring Fossil Moths, Digital Dinos, Black Death Sequenced, Marriage Madness, The Hard Lives of Stars, We Got Muscles, No More Vitamins, And Much More…
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Without a pre amble the post amble can seem pointless
And when things seem pointless the problems that face us become too daunting to deal with
Things too daunting are ignored or resigned to as inevitable
When things are ignored, they are not taught, no teachers, no students, no new thoughts
and with no new thoughts, no new solutions are possible… and so the problems continue
In science, there is nothing so daunting as having no teachers, no students, and no new thoughts
For the problems facing us are not nearly so great as the opportunities for greatness that are going unanswered…
Without the questioning minds, there are no questions asked, and no answers found… even though solutions are still required
We people are capable of far greater feats of solution finding than we have performed so far
And as proof of this, we offer you
This week in science… coming up next
A Kraken of a Tale
Toothy Pterosaur
Black holes destroy stars
There’s a bounty of failed stars out there
Materialism and Marriage
Black death sequenced
And, fossil moths show some color
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Muscles of the future
Don’t take your vitamins
The LHSee
Stopping inflammation
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October 12th, 2011
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Ignobel Awards, Crab Nebula Calling, LUCO, Icarus Plans, Fins To Feet, Cometary Origins, Pee To Fuel, Happy Hate, Placebo Receptor, And Much More…
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There are more wrong answers to questions than there are correct ones.
On the surface this may seem obvious, but if you drill down a bit you soon discover that it is not only obvious, but also plain to see…
That the wrong information is prevalent in absolutely every human endeavor for the unknown itself begins as everything everywhere and only ends in an infinite number of best guesses.
It is utterly unavoidable that we must constantly make decisions based on incorrect data derived from poorly constructed questions under less than ideal experimental conditions with insufficient history of past results upon which to base future predictions…
And yet… our margin of error ridden decision making has allowed us humans to survive, to multiply and to produce magnificent achievements of the mind, terrific triumphs of technology and irrefutable rationalizations of the physical realities of time and space…
And while some will tell you that the old solutions are still the best solutions to our way forward…
Others, unsatisfied with simply having it right some of the time, continue to pursue more perfect solutions.
Are occupying themselves with the possibilities that were either overlooked or entirely unforeseen…
and are challenging the best answers of the past in order to find better ones for the future.
For no matter how much ground has been gained from the unknown in the many millennia of human knowledge we must not rest upon the laurels of giants…
And remind ourselves that the pioneering spirit of mankind still has an unexplored frontier ahead…
For there are still more wrong answers to questions than there are correct ones.
Although there is one thing we do know with great certainty… that it is time for
This week in science… coming up next
Ignobel Awards!!!
Crab Nebula News
First common organelle
Flying Closer to the Sun
Fins to legs
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Water from Comets?
Bacteria turns urine into rocket fuel
Happy people more likely to hate
Some placebos act via cannabinoid receptors
Hey ladies! Make-up makes people like you better.
Brain variation determines memory accuracy.
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October 5th, 2011
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A New Standard, Hallucinating Personality, Synthetic Brains, Anabolic Mustard, Icebergs Kill Invertebrates, 5 Giants, Justin Gets Embarrassed, The Dead Sea Lives, And Much More…
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New Standard Candle
Gravity Clusters for Einstein
Fermilab checking CERN
Magic Mushrooms Change You
Synthetic cerebellum
Spatial competition in the brain
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Natural steroids you can buy in your grocery store
A home remedy for spinal injuries
Red Wine Cures
Icebergs and biodiversity
A 5th Gas Giant?
The number one reason people should never trust Justin
New bacterial life
Darker than black
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