Double Slits And Quantum Weirdness - This Week in Science (TWIS) Podcast - Episode 685
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Channel: This Week in Science (TWIS) · 2018 · Science & Technology
Double Slits And Quantum Weirdness - Watch Episode 685 of the This Week in Science Podcast (TWIS), with hosts Dr. Kiki and Blair Bazdarich (Justin Jackson is away this week getting settled after a move), and our special interview guest, Science Journalist Anil Ananthaswamy! Listen to the full episode in audio or check out the show notes at our website: http://www.twis.org ! Support us on Patreon! http://patreon.com/ThisWeekinScience Follow us on Twitter!@TWIScience Subscribe to us on YouTube! http://youtube.com/ThisWeekinScience View more videos like this: https://goo.gl/4luU1E -------------------------------- Dr. Kiki & Blair explore the world of science news with a few of the week's popular stories: (0:00) - Recording Start (0:33) - Show Start, Intro - Dr. Kiki... aaaaand, it's a FALSE START! Let's try again... (1:05) - Show Start, Intro - Dr. Kiki (1:31) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - Blair (2:45) - Opening Theme Music (3:25) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings - with Dr. Kiki & Blair. Intros & Top Story Headlines. (5:27) - Interview w/ Anil Ananthaswamy Anil Ananthaswamy is an award-winning journalist and former staff writer and deputy news editor for the London-based New Scientist magazine. He contributes regularly to the New Scientist, and has also written for Nature, National Geographic News, Discover, Nautilus, Matter, The Wall Street Journal and the UK’s Literary Review. The Edge of Physics and The Man Who Wasn't There were his first two books, and now he returns with Through Two Doors At Once. (6:41) - It's been 10 years since you and I last spoke! What have you been doing for the last decade?! Dr. Kiki [Ed. Note — YouTube does not give us enough room for the whole interview, find all those notes, here — http://bit.ly/anil-ananthaswamy-interview.] (40:24) - Interview Wrap-up — Where can people find you online? Dr. Kiki -- http://bit.ly/thru-two-doors http://anilananthaswamy.com/ Twitter - @anilananth TED Talk - http://bit.ly/anil-ted-talk (41:00) - And we're at the break! (41:27) - Half-Time Theme Music - "Our 1st Assumptions Were Correct" by Jake Mann from his album, "Daytime Ghost." https://apple.co/2G3ERxV (43:00) - (with Blair! — while Kiki puts child to bed...) This is where you can find out about our Zazzle store (http://www.zazzle.com/thisweekinscience) and supporting us through Paypal (http://bit.ly/twis-paypal) and Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thisweekinsci... Tell more folks about TWIS (http://twis.org). And please leave great reviews for the podcast on iTunes (http://apple.co/2bJGvtB). More minions, please! (47:01) - Interstitial Music (47:31) - And we're back from the break! (47:46) - What has Science done for ME, lately? TWIS Minion Nathan Hevenstone shares how technological innovation helped ween him from smoking & nicotine. Please send your own science stories to [email protected] or message us on Facebook - facebook.com/ThisWeekinScience. (52:13) - As carbon dioxide levels climb, millions at risk of nutritional deficiencies, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/co2-nutrition (59:55) - AWAKE successfully accelerates electrons, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/AWAKE-electron-accelerate (1:01:55) - Dr. Kiki mentions, in relation to particle acceleration, the CERN experiment this week - Here's What Happens When a Higgs Boson Dies — and What It Means for Particle Physics - http://bit.ly/higgs-boson-smash (1:05:33) - New Horizons has sent back the first images of Ultima Thule, its next target, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/nh-ultima-thule (1:08:52) - Blair’s Animal Corner (1:09:11) - Blair’s Animal Corner Theme. (1:09:31) - Shrimp heal injured fish, Blair - http://bit.ly/shrimp-heal-fish (1:15:03) - Fossil turtle didn't have a shell yet, but had the first toothless turtle beak, Blair - http://bit.ly/fossil-turtle (1:22:03) - Evidence found of worker naked mole rats who eat queen feces becoming more attentive to young, Blair - http://bit.ly/naked-mole-rat-feces (1:28:06) - Researchers unearth secret tunnels between the skull and the brain, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/skull-tunnels (1:32:22) - Microbes hitch a ride inland on coastal fog, Blair - http://bit.ly/microbe-hitchhikers (1:37:18) - Research Brief: Researchers 3D print prototype for ‘bionic eye’, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/3D-printed-bionic-eye Quick Science Bytes! — (1:41:25) - Teenagers have a hard time reading one another's tones of voice, Blair - http://bit.ly/teen-tone (1:46:38) - Foraging bumblebees acquire a preference for neonicotinoid-treated food with prolonged exposure, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/bees-love-cigs (1:48:00) - Asteroid Itokawa's age betrayed by ancient dust grains, Blair - http://bit.ly/asteroid-itokawas-age (1:52:01) - Show wrap up (1:52:34) - Thank you’s to patreon sponsors. (1:55:55) - End Theme And that's all, folks! Except, we still have... (1:59:28) - The After Show
