How Do People Make Babies? - This Week in Science (TWIS) Podcast - Episode 698
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Channel: This Week in Science (TWIS) · 2018 · Science & Technology
How Do People Make Babies? - Watch Episode 698 of the This Week in Science Podcast (TWIS), with hosts Dr. Kiki, Justin Jackson (Sorry, no Blair Bazdarich this week, she'll be back next week) and guest commentator, Trace Dominguez! View more videos like this: https://goo.gl/4luU1E Watch live here or check out our feed over at http://twis.org/live - we have a chatroom! Join us! Support us on Patreon! http://patreon.com/ThisWeekinScience 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 -------------------------------- (0:00) - Recording Start (0:34) - And.... Whoops! False Start! (0:48) - Show Start, Intro - Dr. Kiki (1:13) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - w/ Blair! (2:08) - Opening Theme Music. (2:42) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings - with Dr. Kiki, Justin & Trace. Intros & Top Story Headlines. (7:03) - The Scientist Who Gene-Edited Babies Is Missing — Is He being detained in China? Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/missing-crispr-scientist See also - CCR5 is a suppressor for cortical plasticity and hippocampal learning and memory - http://bit.ly/ccr5-suppressor (12:24) - Livebirth after uterus transplantation from a deceased donor in a recipient with uterine infertility, Trace - http://bit.ly/uterus-transplant-baby-2 See also - From a Deceased Woman’s Transplanted Uterus, a Live Birth - https://nyti.ms/2BTWdhW See also - The Lancet: First baby born via uterus transplant from a deceased donor, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/uterus-transplant-baby (24:55) - Researchers grow a placenta in a petri dish, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/petri-dish-placenta (29:43) - Stone tools linked to ancient human ancestors in Arabia have surprisingly recent date, Justin - http://bit.ly/arabia-stone-tools (36:14) - Soft tissue shows Jurassic ichthyosaur was warm-blooded, had blubber and camouflage, Justin - http://bit.ly/jurrasic-ichthyosaur [Ed. Note — No Blair's Animal Corner this week, sorry — but instead we have...] (43:15) - Chat w/ Trace - tell us about yourself? How did you get started talking about Science? etc. (Here's the story Trace spoke about: This Man Can Hear Wi-Fi Wherever He Goes. Here's What It Sounds Like - http://bit.ly/man-hears-wifi) (59:01) - And we're at the break! (59:36) - Half-Time Theme Music - "Our 1st Assumptions Were Correct" by Jake Mann from his album, "Daytime Ghost." https://apple.co/2G3ERxV (1:00:16) - This is where you can find out about the upcoming 2019 TWIS Calendar by Blair (http://bit.ly/twis-2019-calendar), 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! (1:04:34) - Interstitial Music (1:04:50) - Back from the break! (1:04:56) - What has Science done for ME, lately? TWIS Minion Erick Knapp shares his very recent experience with the 7.0 Magnitude Earthquake that hit his state of Alaska last November 30th! Send your Science stories to: [email protected] or message us on Facebook - facebook.com/ThisWeekinScience. (1:09:34) - 229 new species described by the California Academy of Sciences in 2018, Justin - http://bit.ly/229-new-species (1:19:57) - Artificial synapses made from nanowires, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/artificial-synapses See also - Self-limited single nanowire systems combining all-in-one memristive and neuromorphic functionalities - https://go.nature.com/2Egvpe6 (1:27:26) - Galileo satellites prove Einstein's Relativity Theory to highest accuracy yet, Trace - http://bit.ly/galileo-satellite-relativity (1:35:06) - Greenland ice sheet melt 'off the charts' compared with past four centuries, Justin - http://bit.ly/greenland-ice-sheet (1:46:43) - A sobering conclusion: Adult hearts contain no stem cells, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/no-heart-stem-cells Quick Science Bytes! — (1:52:38) - NASA’S OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Arrives at Asteroid Bennu, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/osiris-rex-bennu (Twitter account - https://twitter.com/OSIRISREx) (1:54:16) - LIGO and Virgo announce four new gravitational-wave detections, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/four-new-grav-waves (1:56:18) - Show wrap up. (1:56:27) - Our 2019 TWIS Calendar with art by Blair Bazdarich is now available! http://bit.ly/twis-2019-calendar (1:58:07) - Thank you’s to our generous Patreon sponsors (1:59:42) - NEXT WEEK! - Justin & Blair's Birthday Episode! (2:02:38) - End Theme And that's all, folks! Except, we still have... (2:06:03) - The After Show - Justin loves the gong. He wants more gong. Kiki's ability to throw "THE LOOK™." And much, much more...
