Right In Your Backyard! - This Week in Science (TWIS) Podcast - Episode 649
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Channel: This Week in Science (TWIS) · 2017 · Science & Technology
Right In Your Backyard! - Watch Episode 649 of the This Week in Science Podcast (TWIS), with hosts Dr. Kiki, Blair Bazdarich & Justin Jackson and an interview with Dr. Greg Gage of Backyard Brains now! Dr. Kiki, Blair & Justin explore the world of science news with a few of the week's popular stories: (0:00) - Recording Start (1:22) - Show Start, Intro - Dr. Kiki (1:45) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - Justin (2:58) - Opening Theme Music. (3:32) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings - with Dr. Kiki, Blair & Justin. Intros & Top Story Headlines. (6:06) - Order your TWIS 2018 Color Book Calendar by Blair! Go to http://twis.org & click on the link for the Calendar in the top right of the page. (6:31) - TWIS will be LIVE! at the @SFSketchfest, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018, 6 - 10 pm, at the California Academy of Sciences. Get your tickets now! https://www.sfsketchfest.com/ (6:51) - Interview - Dr. Greg Gage of Backyard Brains (https://backyardbrains.com) Dr. Greg Gage is a neuroscientist, engineer, and co-founder of Backyard Brains, a company working on making neuroscience accessible to everyone through affordable neuroscience equipement and promotion of citizen neuroscience investigations. He has spoken at the TED conference and appeared on Netflix's White Rabbit Project. [Ed. Note — YouTube does not give us enough space for the entire interview, for a complete Interview notes, go here — http://bit.ly/2AIQzA5 ] (48:12) - Where can people find out more about what you do? backyardbrains.com - it's for profit! Great stocking stuffers for the holidays! @backyardbrains on Twitter @phineasgreg on Twitter (49:55) - And we're at the break! (50:25) - Half-Time Theme Music. (51:07) - Order your TWIS 2018 Color Book Calendar by Blair! See links above. (51:54) - TWIS LIVE! @ SF Sketchfest Jan. 18th - See links above. (52:45) - 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! (58:34) - Interstitial Music: NEW Music! (58:47) - And we're back from the break! (59:30) - What has Science done for ME, lately? TWIS Minion Ed Dyer shares how a love of Science & Medical advances helped break a family pattern of diabetes and depression. Please send your own science stories to [email protected] or message us on Facebook - facebook.com/ThisWeekinScience. (1:02:17) - NASA's Juno Probes the Depths of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, Dr. Kiki - https://goo.gl/zaNzs8 (1:09:58) - Major space mystery solved using data from student satellite, Dr. Kiki - https://goo.gl/rx6ofM (1:13:19) - Life's building blocks observed in spacelike environment, Dr. Kiki - https://goo.gl/KGdxZq (1:15:24) - Every grain of sand is a metropolis for bacteria, Justin - https://goo.gl/ymkCnd (1:20:10) - Personality and mood swings in bacteria, Justin - https://goo.gl/FW712R (1:30:15) - Blair’s Animal Corner (1:31:10) - Blair’s Animal Corner Theme. (1:31:29) - Climate change: can hummingbirds take the heat? Blair - https://goo.gl/XUEpJv (1:37:59) - Separated since the dinosaurs, bamboo-eating lemurs, pandas share common gut microbes, Blair - https://goo.gl/U5BEWz (1:42:48) - Study finds dogs are brainier than cats, Blair - https://goo.gl/2VPdvT Quick Science Bytes! — (1:48:59) - Laser-driven technique for creating fusion is now within reach, say researchers, - https://goo.gl/Vsi5Nr (1:54:50) - Engineers create plants that glow, Dr. Kiki - https://goo.gl/iN1C8y (2:01:32) - Show wrap up. (2:01:42) - Order your TWIS 2018 Color Book Calendar by Blair! See links above. (2:01:59) - TWIS LIVE! @ SF Sketchfest Jan. 18th - See links above. (2:02:33) - Thank you’s to patreon sponsors - with the credit scroll/crawl! (2:06:39) - End Theme And that's all, folks! Except, we still have... (2:10:11) - The After Show - Buy a calendar before you go! A colored-in Purple Pengolin is displayed. Blair will sign calendars at the SF Sketchfest. No "The Kai Show" this week. New Patreon goals are discussed. And much, much more… Listen to the full episode in audio or check out the show notes at our website: http://www.twis.org ! Follow us on Twitter!@TWIScience Subscribe to us on YouTube! http://youtube.com/ThisWeekinScience Support us on Patreon! http://patreon.com/ThisWeekinScience View more videos like this: https://goo.gl/4luU1E
