Bringing Light to the Darkest Timeline
Channel: This Week in Science (TWIS)
Date: 2020-12-09

Dr. Kiki, Blair & Justin, as a very hard year of 2020 begins to draw to a close and the days get shorter, attempt to be Bringing Light to the Darkest Timeline, in this, our This Week In Science (TWIS) Episode #803.

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(0:00) - Recording Start 
(1:58) - Intro, Dr. Kiki
(2:42) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - Justin (he should really read the show notes)
(3:50) - Opening Theme Music, Dr. Kiki
(4:24) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings - with Dr. Kiki, Blair & Justin. Intros & Top Story Headlines. 

(6:49) - Quick Science Bytes! —

(6:51) - Quantum device performs 2.6 billion years of computation in 4 minutes, Dr. Kiki - https://bit.ly/36ZZ08T
See also - Photonic Quantum Computer Displays "Supremacy" Over Supercomputers - https://bit.ly/2Lpa0Ev
(14:24) - Study: Bartonella Infection Associated With Psychiatric Symptoms and Skin Lesions, Justin - https://bit.ly/372DRuQ
See also - CDC: Bartonella Infection (Cat Scratch Disease, Trench Fever, and Carrión’s Disease) - https://bit.ly/3n4bq5e
(20:00) - Beavers may help amphibians threatened by climate change, Blair - https://bit.ly/3m4Tea8 
(25:13) - Human ‘stuff’ now outweighs all life on Earth, Dr. Kiki - https://bit.ly/3qG1lO1
See also - Global trends in nature’s contributions to people - https://bit.ly/3qHMaE3
See also - Nature’s contributions to people found to be in decline - https://bit.ly/2K72yxd
(30:43) - Pluridisciplinary evidence for burial for the La Ferrassie 8 Neandertal child, Justin - https://go.nature.com/2JGOaMh
(36:51) - Honey Bees Use Animal Dung to Fend Off Giant “Murder” Hornets, Dr. Kiki - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/12/201209170706.htm

(45:54) - COVID-19/Sars-CoV-2 Update
• Johns Hopkins Covid-19 Tracker - https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html 

(46:05) -  The Tension Between Awareness and Fatigue Shapes Covid-19 Spread, Dr. Kiki - https://b.gatech.edu/39YsG8o
(50:23) - Scientists discover how COVID-19 virus causes multiple organ failure in mice, Dr. Kiki - https://bit.ly/3qI45u9
(54:47) - 3D protein modeling suggests why COVID-19 infects some animals, but not others, Blair - https://bit.ly/33YC5J8

(1:09:02) - Blair’s Animal Corner
(1:09:13) - Blair’s Animal Corner Theme
(1:09:35) - Dogs may never learn that every sound of a word matters, Blair - https://bit.ly/3oAPqPG 
(1:20:28) - Why giant pandas roll around in horse manure, Blair - https://bit.ly/2VYIYpr

(1:26:20) - And we're at the break! 

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(1:27:40) - And we're back!

More Science News —

(1:27:41) - A Call to Action: Marshaling Science for Society, Justin - https://bit.ly/3oEWHxS
See also - A Call to Action: Marshaling Science for Society (AUDIO) - https://bit.ly/2LpcoLt
(1:31:56) - New study findings: militarizing local police does not reduce crime, Justin - https://bit.ly/2JOrRUI
(1:39:29) - Shrew Brains Shrink During Winter, Dr. Kiki - https://bit.ly/3qHUSlA
(1:48:05) - How the Brain Remembers Right Place and Right Time, Dr. Kiki - https://bit.ly/2VVODg2

(1:56:37) - TWIS User Questions?: Not so much a question, but — a correction! From TWIS Minion Jennifer Herricks, about our confusion between polio & small pox vaccines from last week.

(1:58:40) - Show wrap up.

(2:00:27) - Thank you’s to the Burroughs Welcome Fund (https://www.bwfund.org/) and our Patreon Sponsors

(2:03:40) - End Theme

And that's all, folks! Except, we still have...

(2:07:08) - The After Show! — Blair's holiday spirit decorations all over her background. Blair's got a Covid-19 December Birthday - the 11th & 12th for Justin & Blair. Send them birthday greetings. Justin literally forgot. A discussion of Sadie's Corgi weight without body shaming. And much, much more...