Science's All Male Review!!! - This Week in Science Podcast (TWIS) - Episode 639
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Channel: This Week in Science (TWIS) · 2017 · Science & Technology
Check out Science’s All Male Review!!! Join This Week in Science Podcast (TWIS) for Episode 639 with hosts Dr. Kiki, Blair Bazdarich & Justin Jackson. Dr. Kiki, Blair & Justin explore the world of science news with a few of the week's popular stories: (0:00) - Recording Start (with everyone whispering over something Dr. Kiki lost, to please all our AMSR friends.) (0:39) - Show Start, Intro - Dr. Kiki (1:11) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - Justin (2:28) - Opening Theme Music. (3:02) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings - with Dr. Kiki, Blair & Justin. Intros & Top Story Headlines. (4:53) - What has Science done for ME, lately? "In 2012 I was diagnosed with Melanoma. Even with treatment by early 2014 it had metastasized and the prognosis was bad.. After 4 treatments of Yarvoy followed by 36 bi-weekly treatments of Opdivo, I have had a complete response. NO Signs of the cancer for 10 months. That's what science has done for me lately!!!😂 --Tom McKaig" Please send your own science stories to [email protected] or message us on Facebook - facebook.com/ThisWeekinScience. (7:25) - The Nobel Prizes, Dr. Kiki - https://www.nobelprize.org/ (19:07) - Chinese scientists fix genetic disorder in cloned human embryos, Dr. Kiki - https://goo.gl/yKhDLw (24:33) - Meet the hominin species that gave us genital herpes, Dr. Kiki - https://goo.gl/ZKFAp4 (32:57) - Stone Age child reveals that modern humans emerged more than 300,000 years ago, Justin - https://goo.gl/aVjCSi (39:22) - Blair’s Animal Corner (39:38) - Blair’s Animal Corner Theme. (39:57) - Raccoons solve an ancient puzzle, but do they really understand it?, Blair - https://goo.gl/nJjXLb (50:33) - Tsunami enabled hundreds of aquatic species to raft across Pacific, Blair - https://goo.gl/zi5mYV (56:53) - And we're at the break! (57:27) - Half-Time Theme Music. (58:15) - Pre-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. (59:33) - 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! (1:02:48) - Interstitial Music: George Hrab, "Skeptic," from the album "Vitriol." (https://itun.es/us/H1qUe). (1:03:15) - And we're back from the break! (1:03:19) - Ancient textiles reveal differences in Mediterranean fabrics in the 1st millennium BC, Justin - https://goo.gl/xcac5g (1:11:02) - NIH researchers uncover drain pipes in our brains, Dr. Kiki - https://goo.gl/N3hmqo (1:18:24) - A new way to produce clean hydrogen fuel from water using sunlight, Justin - https://goo.gl/DTh3XQ (1:23:01) - Mysterious dimming of Tabby's Star may be caused by dust, Dr. Kiki - https://goo.gl/nMB8Gm Quick Science Bytes! — (1:30:02) - World-first trial for universal flu vaccine, Dr. Kiki - https://goo.gl/iQeJJ2 (1:34:16) - We faced abuse for asking people to kill wasps for science – here's why it was worthwhile, Blair - https://goo.gl/91gcqK (1:40:37) - Cats kill one million birds a day in Australia, Justin - https://goo.gl/umgpUK (1:44:34) - Show wrap up. (1:45:11) - Thank you’s to patreon sponsors - no credit scroll/crawl this week (sorry). (1:49:06) - End Theme And that's all, folks! Except, we still have... (1:52:34) - The After Show - a brief visit from the instrumental version of “Blair’s Animal Corner” theme. We’re in the After-Show. We’ll be in Denver, CO, in ONE MONTH! A muted (non-SHOUTY™) Blair. A shout-out to Dave Friedel in Denver, CO. A visit to an entymology festival. Maybe a podcast festival in Portland, Ore., also in December. 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
