How to Get Brainier Thru Science - This Week in Science Podcast (TWIS) - Episode 916
Channel: This Week in Science (TWIS)
Date: 08/03/2023

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(0:00) - Recording Start
(1:43) - Intro, Dr. Kiki
(2:14) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - Justin
(3:26) - Opening Theme Music
(4:00) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings with Dr. Kiki, Blair & Justin!

(7:02) - Quick Science Bytes! —

(7:08) - What "Chernobyl dogs" can tell us about survival in contaminated environments, Dr. Kiki
See also — Population dynamics and genome-wide selection scan for dogs in Chernobyl
(19:20) - Astronomers find missing link for water in the Solar System, Justin
(25:26) - Plasticosis: A new disease caused by plastic that is affecting seabirds, Blair
(34:06) - A population of stem cells with strong regenerative potential discovered in deer antlers, Dr. Kiki
(40:11) - Anthropogenic climate change poses systemic risk to coffee cultivation, Justin
(47:23) - Mother-to-infant microbiota transmission and infant microbiota development across multiple body sites, Dr. Kiki

(51:50) - And we're at the break!

(51:56) - Become a TWIS Producer! Please support us through Patreon — https://www.patreon.com/thisweekinscience/. Help support TWIS by buying our great Schwag at our TWIS Zazzle Store, including many pieces of art & design by our own Blair Bazdarich! https://www.zazzle.com/store/thisweekinscience.

(52:43) - And we're back from the break!

(52:45) - Blair’s Animal Corner
(52:54) - Blair’s Animal Corner Theme
(53:16) - Long-tailed macaques react with disappointment when their expectations are not met: Evolutionary insights into fairness, Blair 
(1:05:35) - Wasps harness power of pitcher plants in first-ever observed defense strategy, Blair

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...More minions, please!

More Science News —

(1:12:38) - 160 million years of life lost to obesity in 2019, Justin
(1:22:23) - Hollow bones that let dinosaurs become giants evolved at least three times independently, Justin
(1:29:48) - FGF21 counteracts alcohol intoxication by activating the noradrenergic nervous system, Dr. Kiki
(1:39:47) - Mitochondrial pyruvate metabolism regulates the activation of quiescent adult neural stem cells, Dr. Kiki
See also — How to Generate New Neurons in the Brain

(1:44:51) - Show Wrap-up + volunteer thank you's.

(1:45:38) - Thank you’s to our Patreon Sponsors

(1:48:47) - End Theme

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

(1:50:09) - The After Show! - Hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo. Where did Justin go? More coffee, after that story, we expect. Blair wants less coffee, diving into bed. How busy is Justin today? He's going somewhere very important — visiting his new son's potential future day care. So he must be co... co... coherent. And much, much more …