Driving And Cloning - This Week in Science (TWIS) Podcast - Episode 705
Channel: This Week in Science (TWIS)
Date: 2019-01-23

Driving And Cloning - Watch the discussion of recent developments in Episode 705 of the This Week in Science Podcast (TWIS), with hosts Dr. Kiki, Blair Bazdarich & Justin Jackson now!

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(0:00) - Recording Start (I never told iTunes to update... so... WHAAAAAAAAAT...??)
(2:26) - Show Start, Intro - Dr. Kiki 
(2:53) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - w/ Blair!
(3:50) - Opening Theme Music.
(4:26) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings - with Dr. Kiki & Justin. Intros & Top Story Headlines. 

(6:39) -  Is the Elusive 'Planet Nine' Actually a Massive Ring of Debris in the Outer Solar System? Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/elusive-planet-nine 
See also - Clustering in the Outer Solar Systems, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/mike-brown-tweet 
See also - Orbital Clustering In The Distant Solar System Paper - http://bit.ly/orbital-clustering-paper 
(14:10) - Gene-edited disease monkeys cloned in China, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/gene-edited-monkeys 
(26:47) - Plants May Not Have Ears, But They Can 'Hear' Way Better Than We Thought, Justin - http://bit.ly/plants-hear-bees 
See also - Plants Can Hear Animals Using Their Flowers - http://bit.ly/plants-hear-bees-2 
See also - Flowers can hear buzzing bees—and it makes their nectar sweeter - http://bit.ly/plants-hear-bees-3 

(37:28) - Blair’s Animal Corner
(37:39) - Blair’s Animal Corner Theme (Oh! It's gonna work! Ok, great!)
(38:02) - New Caledonian crows found able to infer weight of an object by watching how it behaves in the wind, Blair - http://bit.ly/smart-crows 
(44:52) - Intelligent males may make female birds swoon: study, Blair - http://bit.ly/smart-male-birds-can-get-it 

(53:47) - And we're at the break!
(54:11) - Half-Time Theme Music  - "Our 1st Assumptions Were Correct" by Jake Mann from his album, "Daytime Ghost." https://apple.co/2G3ERxV

(54:43) - This is where you can find out about our 2019 TWIS Calendar by Blair (http://twis.org), 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!

(57:58) - Interstitial Music

(59:04) - Back from the break!

(59:09) - What has Science done for ME, lately?
TWIS Minion Ash (Twitter - @ashsix4), a Science teacher in Sydney, Australia, shares detail on how a note from Blair from our 700th episode inspired him to go on the Australian Gov't. funded Bush Blitz! http://bushblitz.org.au/
send Science stories to kirsten@thisweekinscience.com 

(1:06:29) - Cancer has a biological clock and this drug may keep it from ticking, Justin - http://bit.ly/drug-cancer-clock 
(1:13:20) - A Common Gum Infection Bacteria May Also be Causing Alzheimer’s, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/gum-infection-alzheimers  
(1:22:08) - Alzheimer’s disease: It may be possible to restore memory function, preclinical study finds, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/alzheimers-memory-restore 
(1:25:49) - Understanding our early human ancestors: Australopithecus sediba, Justin - http://bit.ly/australopithecus-sediba 
(1:29:30) - A surprisingly early replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans in southern Spain, Justin - http://bit.ly/neanderthals-ancient-spain 

Quick Science Bytes! — 

(1:35:11) - Cryptic remains of tiny animals have turned up in an Antarctic lake, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/cryptic-antarctic-remains 
(1:37:46) - Researchers get gene drive to push mice beyond Mendel, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/gene-drive-mice-mendel
See also - Super-Mendelian inheritance mediated by CRISPR–Cas9 in the female mouse germline - https://go.nature.com/2Tb3cZU 
(1:40:48) - Study supports physical activity as a preventive strategy against depression, Justin - http://bit.ly/physical-activity-depression 
(1:43:40) - Study explains how geckos gracefully gallop on water, Blair - http://bit.ly/geckos-run-on-water 

(1:46:54) - Show wrap up.

(1:47:44) - Thank you’s to our generous Patreon sponsors

(1:51:21) - End Theme

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

(1:54:53) - The After Show - That's not my cue! Dr. Kiki's brain is slow, because Robot Kiki has powered down. Trendy Ignorance - might be a great tattoo. Justin is freezing! He's a spoiled Californian, and it's CERTAINLY NOT Finland. BIG EXCITING NEWS!: TWIS WILL HAVE A LIVE SHOW IN PORTLAND, OREGON!!! Wed. April 3rd, part of Science On Tap (https://viaproductions.org/portland/). And much, much more....