How Fish Bones Tell Stories - This Week in Science (TWIS) Podcast - Episode 750
Channel: This Week in Science (TWIS)
Date: 11/12/2019

How Fish Bones Tell Stories - Episode 749 of the This Week in Science news Podcast (TWIS) asks, "Did it Start With a Bang?" Hear the latest science news stories with hosts Dr. Kiki, Blair Bazdarich and Justin Jackson — and also a very special interview with Anthropologist Dr. Virginia Butler!

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(0:00) - Recording Start - with a cat climbing on shelves above Dr. Kiki - ceiling cat, is that you?
(0:35) - Intro, Dr. Kiki
(1:01) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - Justin 
(2:02) - Opening Theme Music
(2:38) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings - with Dr. Kiki, Blair & Justin. Intros & Top Story Headlines. 

(5:29) - Start of Interview with Dr. Virgina Butler

Dr. Butler is a professor of anthropology at portland state university. Her focus is zooarchaeology, and is why she is very interested in fish bones.

• http://web.pdx.edu/~virginia/
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X18306618
• https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss1/art17/ 

() - Interview Wrap Up & Thank you's.

(50:16) - And we're at the break!
(50:46) - 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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(53:41) - Interstitial Music

(54:10) - Back from the break!

(54:18) - What has Science done for ME, lately?
Being that it is our own Justin's birthday, we put him on spot for what Science has done for him, and his favorite device invented in the last centure — the electric dishwasher!
Please send your Science stories to kirsten@thisweekinscience.com 

(58:51) -   Domesticated cynomolgus monkey embryonic stem cells allow the generation of neonatal interspecies chimeric pigs, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/pig-monkey-chimeras-1 ; see also - First Pig-Monkey Chimeras Were Just Created in China - http://bit.ly/pig-monkey-chimeras-2
(1:08:48) - Even dinosaurs had lice, fossils entombed in amber reveal, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/dinosaur-lice
(1:12:12) - Earth was stressed before dinosaur extinction, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/dino-earth-stress
(1:13:54) - Greenland ice losses rising faster than expected, Justin - http://bit.ly/greenland-ice-loss

(1:26:44) - Blair’s Animal Corner
(1:26:52) - Blair’s Animal Corner Theme
(1:27:13) -  Sexually transmitted diseases reduce the willingness of female baboons to mate, Blair - http://bit.ly/female-babboons-want-no-stds
(1:32:52) - Key to helping southern sea otter is in repopulating estuaries such as San Francisco Bay, Blair - http://bit.ly/repopulate-estuaries-with-otters

Quick Science Bytes! — 

(1:42:29) - You create your own false information, study finds, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/we-lie-to-ourselves
(1:50:02) - Boom Chack Boom—A multimethod investigation of motor inhibition in professional drummers, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/drummer-motor-inhibition 
(1:52:54) - Scientists accidentally discover a new water mold threatening Christmas trees, Justin - http://bit.ly/xmas-tree-water-mold
(1:56:21) - Lights on fishing nets save turtles and dolphins, Blair - http://bit.ly/iights-on-fishing-nets

(1:59:18) - Show wrap up.

(2:00:01) - Thank you’s to our Patreon Sponsors

(2:01:28) - NEXT WEEK! - Our TOP 11 Science Stories of 2019 Show!

(2:04:13) - End Theme

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

(2:07:42) - The After Show - We did it! Yay! ANNOUCEMENT: Blair Bazdarich will be on the Daily Tech News Show (https://dailytechnewsshow.com/  &  https://apple.co/2tp45Gh) and this Friday Dec. 20th, 2019. Dr. Kiki thinks they like Blair more than her.  :`-(   Blair has not yet perfected her bagel dog, but she is making them! Uniques uses for Drones in Science! And much, much more...