How To Stop The Extinctions - This Week in Science Podcast (TWIS) - Episode 720
Channel: This Week in Science (TWIS)
Date: 2019-05-08

We know how to stop the extinctions. Join the This Week in Science Podcast (TWIS) with hosts Dr. Kiki, Blair Bazdarich & Justin Jackson to learn how now!

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(0:00) - Recording Start - Movin' 'n' Groovin'...
(0:43) - Show Start, Intro... WHOOPS! - Dr. Kiki 
(1:50) - REAL Show Start, Intro - Dr. Kiki
(2:14) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - Justin
(3:33) - Opening Theme Music
(4:07) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings - with Dr. Kiki & Justin. Intros & Top Story Headlines. 

(6:12) - 1 million species are under threat. Here are 5 ways we speed up extinctions, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/million-species-under-threat 

See also - Industrial-era decline in subarctic Atlantic productivity - https://go.nature.com/2JsLXkS 

(17:21) - Black, Hot Ice May Be Nature’s Most Common Form of Water, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/black-hot-ice
(30:34) - Phage therapy treats patient with drug-resistant bacterial infection, Justin - http://bit.ly/phage-therapy 

(40:10) - Blair’s Animal Corner
(40:21) - Blair’s Animal Corner Theme.
(40:43) - Paper wasps capable of behavior that resembles logical reasoning, Blair - http://bit.ly/wasp-logic 
(50:10) - Female flies respond to sensation of sex, not just sperm, Blair  - http://bit.ly/female-flies-sex

(55:01) - And we're at the break!
(55:31) - Half-Time Theme Music  - "Our 1st Assumptions Were Correct" by Jake Mann from his album, "Daytime Ghost." https://apple.co/2G3ERxV

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(59:04) - TWIS will be at the Sante Fe, New Mexico Interplanetary Festival, June 14 - 16, 2019 - https://interplanetaryfest.org/

(59:38) - Interstitial Music

(1:00:10) - Back from the break!

(1:00:19) - What has Science done for ME, lately?
TWIS Minion Dale Moore shares a story about how a friend with a brain tumor was operated on, treated and recovering quicker than it took his mechanic to fix his car!
send Science stories to kirsten@thisweekinscience.com 

(1:03:34) - Oxygen variation controls episodic pattern of Cambrian explosion: study, Justin - http://bit.ly/cambrian-oxygen 
(1:08:53) - Dying stars called collapsars may forge much of the universe’s gold, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/cosmic-gold
(1:14:25) - Statistical study finds it unlikely South African fossil species is ancestral to humans, Justin - http://bit.ly/unlikely-a-human-ancestor
(1:20:11) - Genetic therapy heals damage caused by heart attack, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/heart-attack-genetic-therapy

See also - MicroRNA therapy stimulates uncontrolled cardiac repair after myocardial infarction in pigs - https://go.nature.com/2H9kMsJ

Quick Science Bytes! — 

(1:25:06) - Early-stage detection of Alzheimer’s in the blood, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/alzheimers-blood-test
(1:28:31) - A Pokémon-sized window into the human brain, Dr. Kiki - https://go.nature.com/2PTevFr

See also - Pokémon characters have their own pea-sized region in brain, study finds - http://bit.ly/pokemon-brain 

(1:30:38) - For giant pandas, bamboo is vegetarian 'meat', Blair - http://bit.ly/giant-panda-bamboo 
(1:33:56) - Ayahuasca fixings found in 1,000-year-old bundle in the Andes, Justin - http://bit.ly/ancient-ayahuasca 

(1:38:56) - Show wrap up.

(1:39:37) - Thank you’s to our generous Patreon sponsors.

(1:41:23) - NEXT WEEK! - An interview with Dr. Chritina Hulbe from New Zealand on her studies of the Antarctic Ice Shelf.

(1:43:33) - End Theme

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

(1:47:06) - The After Show -It's not the before, it's the after, it's not even the after, we're done. 

TWIS Minion Beej Price's mentioned in YouTube chat the story of he mini Tyrannosaurus Rex story - Newfound 'Mini T. Rex' Was a Tiny Terror at Just 3 Feet Tall - http://bit.ly/mini-trex

And much, much more...