Grab It By the... SCIENCE! - This Week in Science Podcast (TWIS) - Episode 588
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Channel: This Week in Science (TWIS) · 2016 · Science & Technology
Episode #588 — Grab It By the... SCIENCE! — This week on TWIS (@TWIScience), hosts Dr. Kiki (@drkiki), Blair Bazdarich (@blairsmenagerie) & Justin Jackson (@jacksonfly) discuss this week's science news. This week with special guest Conni Strittmatter of the Maryland Library system (https://goo.gl/CLcHpD) in advance of the TWIS at STEM Festival in Maryland show on November 4th.
Dr. Kiki, Blair, & Justin explore the world of science news with a few of the week's popular stories:
(0:00) - Recording Start
(0:20 ) - "Epi-snode" false start (oops!).
(0:28) - Show Start, Intro - Dr. Kiki.
(0:57) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - Justin
(2:02) - Opening Theme Music.
(2:37) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings with Dr. Kiki, Blair, Justin & guests. Intros & Top Story Headlines.
(3:54) - Interview with Conni Strittmatter of Hartford County Public Library in Maryland.
(4:56) - Tell us what you do & how you incorporate STEM for children & teen services? - Dr. Kiki
(7:24) - How has the library expanded as a place of gathering & learning? - Dr. Kiki
(8:26) - What in your life made you want to become a librarian and go into library science? - Dr. Kiki
(9:11) - What new programs do you have coming for the Maryland STEM festival?
(11:26) - Is there one particular thing at the STEM festival to which you're looking forward? - Blair
(12:46) - Any live animals visiting the library for the STEM festival? - Blair
(13:34) - Justin was raised by a librarian! - Justin
(14:09) - Dewey Decimal System, Yay or Nay? - Blair
(14:37) - Justin, Blair & Dr. Kiki have a walk down memory lane about card catalogs.
(15:40) - Interesting to be the one who assigns the Dewey Numbers to a book? - Justin
(16:43) - Best way for people to take advantage of STEM resources (SHTREAM - Science History Technology Reading Engineering and Maths?) at the Maryland Library system? - Dr. Kiki (http://marylandstemfestival.org/)
(19:02) - Gratitude to Libraries & Thank yous in interview - Dr. Kiki
And a reminder! - TWIS will also be Live! at the Maryland STEM Festival (http://marylandstemfestival.org/) at the National Aquarium (http://www.aqua.org/ — Blair will be ecstatic!) in Baltimore, MD on November 4th
(21:34) - Plans for first ever Space nation "Asgardia" announced today, Dr. Kiki - https://goo.gl/q8eOlQ
(27:09) - Our closest Earthlike planet (Proxima B) appears to be "covered" in water, Dr. Kiki - https://goo.gl/4uUBwV
(29:59) - Scientists say they have a $25 million plan to image Alpha Centauri’s planets, Dr. Kiki - https://goo.gl/Rr2XEB
(33:50) - Cosmic radiation exposure and persistent cognitive dysfunction ("Space Brain!"), Justin - https://goo.gl/2VnTB1
and so it's time for...
(42:42) - Blair's Animal Corner (with some music fumbling around w/ Dr. Kiki)
(42:56) - Blair's Animal Corner Theme Music
(43:17) - Alaskan squirrel study shows females do far more work than males, Blair - https://goo.gl/mcb9Ha
(48:30) - Lack of opportunities promotes brood care (coucal birds), Blair - https://goo.gl/MYzCl2
(51:47) - Ultimate sacrifice: Spider's post-sex cannibalism aids offspring, Blair - https://goo.gl/4KCcSn
(57:08) - And we're at the break!
(57:45) - Half-Time Theme Music.
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(1:03:02) - Interstitial Music: George Hrab, "Skeptic," from the album "Vitriol." (https://itun.es/us/H1qUe).
(1:03:34) - And we're back from the break!
(1:03:42) - Apes understand that some things are all in your head, Justin - https://goo.gl/LUZSHD
(1:12:15) - The Virus With Spider DNA (Wolbachia), Dr. Kiki - https://goo.gl/znGtE6
Also - More Wolbachia - Evolution of a species also involves the bacteria it carries, Dr. Kiki - https://goo.gl/XZTc4u
(1:24:17) - Green Beer! - Brewery wastewater transformed into energy storage, Justin - https://goo.gl/aLRrl2
(1:29:22) - New dwarf planet found in our solar system, Dr. Kiki - https://goo.gl/x3GqGh
(1:32:09) - Beer eases final moments for euthanized invertebrates, study finds, Blair - https://goo.gl/t65Vxe
(1:34:48) - Climate change could be a greater threat to tropical frogs than deforestation, Blair - https://goo.gl/bEkDDz
(1:37:12) - Show Wrap-up & Thank you's.
(1:41:12) - End Theme (with hand/chair dancing & hand-drawn slugs!).
And that's all they wrote! Except for..
(1:44:49) - The After Show! - Bubbles of Joy w/ Blair & Dr. Kiki's new cute kitty.
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