How Can A Failure Be A Winner in Science?
Channel: This Week in Science (TWIS)
Date: 18/05/2023

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(0:00) - Recording Start
(1:44) - Intro, Dr. Kiki
(2:16) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - Justin
(3:15) - Opening Theme Music
(3:49) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings with Dr. Kiki, Blair & Justin!

(6:19) - Quick Science Bytes! —

(6:23) - NASA’s Webb Finds Water, and a New Mystery, in Rare Main Belt Comet (NASA.gov), Dr. Kiki
See also — Spectroscopic identification of water emission from a main-belt comet (Nature)
(16:28) - Failed cancer therapy revived as powerful tumor killer when combined with newer drugs (Science.org), Justin
(23:51) - Study finds carrying pollen heats up bumble bees, raises new climate change questions (Phys.org), Blair
(27:40) - Black holes might be defects in spacetime, Dr. Kiki
(37:50) - Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease (Science.org), Justin
(49:41) - You shed DNA everywhere you go – trace samples in the water, sand and air are enough to identify who you are, raising ethical questions about privacy (TheConversation.com), Dr. Kiki

(59:27) - And we're at the break!

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(1:00:36) - And we're back from the break!

(1:00:38) - Blair’s Animal Corner
(1:00:48) - Blair’s Animal Corner Theme
(1:01:10) - "Love hormone" guides young songbirds in choice of "voice coach," (Phys.org) Blair
(1:10:47) - Hammerhead sharks found to hold their breath on deep water hunts to stay warm (Phys.org), Blair

More Science News —

(1:17:19) - Extremely hot days are warming twice as fast as average summer days in North-West Europe (EurekaAlert.org), Justin
(1:20:53) - Growing sustainable everyday products using mushrooms (TechXplore.com), Justin
(1:28:48) - Researchers treat depression by reversing brain signals traveling the wrong way (Med.Stanford.edu), Dr. Kiki
(1:38:54) - Evidence of "pandemic brain" in college students (EurekaAlert.org), Dr. Kiki

(1:47:36) - Show Wrap-up + volunteer thank you's.

(1:48:16) - Thank you’s to our Patreon Sponsors

(1:51:15) - End Theme

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

(1:52:42) - The After Show! - What a fun time! Justin has walked away and left an empty chair. Justin also made a misnomer that makes Dr. Kiki & Blair think of Mel Brooks' "Spaceballs!" A visit Justin's toddler, young, Master Felix & his stuffy panda. And much, much more …