What is TWIS? Listen as Dr. Kiki and Justin Jackson explain the scientific phenomenon that is This Week in Science.
What is This Week in Science?
Published: May 14, 2010Posted in: z-Science-Videos
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I'm the host of this little science show. 
So many years I have listened to this show and I finally see your faces!
Your intern is really grating on my nerves with her constant ‘uhs’ and ‘ums’. Her stacato reading style makes me wish for a synthesized voice like that of the Kindle.
Also, now that you seem to be a pocast only, why not let us hear the whole song when you go to break.
I’m with Steven. The intern needs to work on her broadcasting skills. Hard to concentrate with all the “ums and uhs”. And also ending every sentence like it’s a question by raising her voice makes it sound like she doesn’t really believe in what she’s reading.
Doesn’t bother me enough to want to see her off the show, but it’s certainly some areas she needs to work on if she’s going to continue to be on the air.
Thanks for the show!
I have been listening to the show for as about the last 3 years, and I love it!!
I do think Justin should be more professional, however, this is done at a university so professionalism doesn’t really fit the picture. He has his own way of doing the show, and I think he should not change a thing. Second, I have seen only a couple of pics of Dr. Kiki, and I think not only is she hot, but she also has knowledge that I would like to have for just everyday use.
wow, it’s really cool to see your faces, been listening to your show for like a year, now I know you are real and not just some voices in my radio! your show is absolutely totally awesome, keep doing your great work! and put Ali in a video too, I bet everyone is curious
Interesting to see that others have the same problem I do – grating vocalizations by some of the podcasters. I love the podcast, but I’ve given up; I can’t stand Justin’s shouting, particularly at the beginning when he nasally hollers “Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!”
Sorry to be so critical, but it totally ruins it for me and spoils a valuable and informative podcast.
2Rob: no way, if it would be just informative podcast, that would make it so boring, there’s plenty of those online. Leave Justin alone, it’s fun when he starts shouting his disclaimers.
If you eat only shadow you will starve… there is much cooking in the flickering flames, why do you insist on licking the cave wall clean?
I’m with Max, I love the disclaimers and Justins amazing way of thinking; He is one of the most creative thinkers I’ve ever heard; I sometimes suspect his IQ is in the 180’s, however twisted. The interaction between Justin and Kiki is pure gold; Kiki gets Justins neurons firing in crazy ways with her amazing intellect and exciting subjects, and Justin brings out the playful girl and correcting mother in Kiki with his bad-boy intermezzo’s. Don’t change a thing !
PS I’m sad to say I also agree to the critisism on Ali, however endearing she is. Let’s hope it’ll turn out to be costructive critisism.
Just wanted to say that I’m a big fan and love the interaction between Justin and Kiki. Also, get over your criticism of Justin’s and Ali’s voice.
Is the forum gone forever?
I know Justin doesn’t believe in the whole Dark Matter/Energy, Black holes, and the God Particle… so was hoping to find what theory he DOES believe in (Plasma Cosmology, Electric Sky, Elastic Space, Holographic Universe, Big Wave, ???)
Is there an unofficial TWIS forum?
Please spend some time going over each others material before going on air. Also for the listeners, Justin’s “ideas” are not solely his own and i wish that he would source the origins of his information rather than call them his ideas. This guy plagiarizes more half assed ideas on a weekly basis than *Rush Limbaugh.
*(not true, but hella close)
I have to say though that i think it is sorta humorous that my comment is awaiting moderation.
great question… i went to a lecture about the structure of the universe. by the end of it i had heard the answer to why the structure of the universe is the way it is no less than a dozen times… because of gravity. what didn’t come up? what gravity is. they say it comes from matter. where is 96% of the gravity in the universe? dark matter. what is dark matter? we don’t know, can’t see it and it has no mass. why do we call it matter? it has gravity. hmmm…
Hi Justin–
Sorry that you had to wait to get your comments approved. I’ve had too much hassle with spammers in the past to allow unmoderated commenting. And, no I don’t check the website every day for comments. So, the result is that you have to wait sometimes. It is no reflection on your comment. I’ll let other listeners reply to that as everyone is allowed an opinion.
I guess we need to get our real information from the hot sheets.
http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/19023/gravity-doesnt-exist/
Is justin and jacksonfly the same author?
Sounds like I should research the holographic principle?
http://pirsa.org/10050022/
Hopefully it doesn’t use string theory..
Jacksonfly = Justin
That’s a great link to Verlinde, thanks Ben.
Virlinde is great in that he does not offer the answer to what Gravity is, but makes a great case for why it isn’t a force. I also like his idea’s because they sound a lot like my own pondering, but with math and power points.
I don’t believe in the holographic principle, and I’m not sure even Verlinde thinks its the answer to Gravity, but it is a great tool in investigating what else it might be, other than Higgs Fields and Gravitons.
My own entirely makeity up physics theory is Oceanic Conduit Space
Space as made up of tiny (string like?) conduit that all energy is zipping along through the conduit at the speed of light…
Energy passing through space in large density and slower than light creates a displacement on the conduit creating warps in the latent consistancy, warps of space itself
Gravity then emerges as the path of least resistance for that energy along warped space.
(if there is more conduit above you than below, there are more freedoms of movement downward, and wether you are a sky diver, a comet or a photon, down you go… )
oh doh is me
should have read
(if there is more conduit BELOW than above, there are more freedoms of movement downward, and wether you are a sky diver, a comet or a photon, down you go… )
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But if in the Oceanic Conduit Space Theory, energy travel at the speed of light.. how does this explain the experiments of quantum entanglement where objects are ‘connected’ regardless of distance?
Would the conduit provides a shorter path, or is the speed of light not the universal speed limit?
What is This Week In Science?
Why, it is a mind-changing, worldview-bending, thunderous brainstorm of bacterial, homo sapienioc insight. Personal as your Google web history, insightful as Gandalf the White, addicting as June beetles to hungry geese. This Week In Science will last more than one week to you, or woeful listener. Listen not less thee be inspired. Play not with TWIS less ye brain be spired. You will become as excited as a neuron in a concert, or an earthworm in fresh dirt.
Beware, for this show is more than fair. Of elven kind be these stories sublime, transcending time and enchanting mine.
Thank you Dr. Kirsten Sanford, Mr. Justin Jackson, and Alley too. All your givings be proven true. I shalln’t forget what has been learned and next cast of TWIS be e’er yearned.
I just wanted to say that I love your guy’s podcast and I listen to it every night when I’m getting ready to go to bed. Nothing like exercising your brain before sleep so you can have some awesome dreams about all of the amazing and wacky things you guys talk about. Justin, you are very entertaining and have some of the best and most creative theories on subjects that I have ever heard. Dr. Kirsten, you always have an educated explanation ans ways of describing things that help me to understand certain topics better. Thankyou for all the cool science stories and keep up the spectacular work guys! I look forward to more shows in the future!
Love being able to see you guys, I think. 🙂 I love the balance between Justin’s silliness and rants (it’s very refreshing) and Dr. Kiki’s voice of reason. I’ve been listening to the show for years via podcasts. Please, keep up the great work! I even donate. Justin, please….. don’t ever grow up. Honestly, I don’t know if I would listen to the two of you independently. You both play off each other so well and compliment each other’s resources. Happy Holidays to you and your families.
Great show, love everything about it
Just listened to one episode, and I can’t believe this show is so popular. They really need to rehearse once at least. It was like listening to someone talk about articles as they read them for the first time. Terrible show… maybe I’ll listen to one more episode.
In Maurice Cotterell’s book, FutureScience, he says that all particles emit gravity waves.
So in RF electromagnetic waves (in phase perpendicular to each other and perpendicular to the direction of energy propagation), but another wave (gravity) is also radiated out corkscrew style as the electron spins.
New T-Shirts but no way to find out how to get one?
I guess we need to get our real information from the hot sheets.