What Color Is Your Sky? - This Week in Science Podcast (TWIS) - Episode 637
Channel: This Week in Science (TWIS)
Date: 20/09/2017

Episode 637 - "What Color Is Your Sky?" - This Week in Science Podcast (TWIS),  with hosts Dr. Kiki, Blair Bazdarich & Justin Jackson!

Dr. Kiki, Blair & Justin explore the world of science news with a few of the week's popular stories:

(0:00) - Recording Start (with Dr. Kiki beeping out a morse code S.O.S. -  ••• ——— •••)
(0:42) - Show Start, Intro - Dr. Kiki
(1:10) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - Justin
(2:30) - Opening Theme Music.
(3:04) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings - with Dr. Kiki, Blair & Justin. Intros & Top Story Headlines.

(5:30) - What has Science done for ME, lately?
A wonderful story from TWIS Minions Matty & Jen Sarro on how reproductive science helped them give birth and bring home their brand new daughter, Ada Marie.
Please send your own science stories to kikifinch@gmail.com or message us on Facebook - facebook.com/ThisWeekinScience.

(10:08) - This Year’s Winners of the Ig® Nobel Prize, Dr. Kiki - https://goo.gl/42FB3m
(29:56) - Mathematics predicts a sixth mass extinction by 2100, Justin - https://goo.gl/4TTYVn 
(40:15) - See jerkface bacteria hiding in tumors and gobbling chemotherapy drugs, Dr. Kiki - https://goo.gl/eGpiWp
(46:42) - A new study is changing how scientists think about Alzheimer’s disease, Dr. Kiki - https://goo.gl/wYUUTL

(51:12) - Blair’s Animal Corner
(51:26) - Blair’s Animal Corner Theme.
(51:46) - Virgin female spiders found willing to give themselves up to being eaten alive by spiderlings, Blair - https://goo.gl/zkqp7R
(57:03) - Bite force research reveals dinosaur-eating frog, Blair - https://goo.gl/pbJszu

(1:03:52) - And we're at the break!
(1:04:20) - Half-Time Theme Music.

(1:04:42) - Pre-order your TWIS 2018 Color Book Calendar by Blair! Go to http://twis.org & click on the link for the Calendar in the top right of the page.

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(1:09:22) - Interstitial Music: George Hrab, "Skeptic," from the album "Vitriol." (https://itun.es/us/H1qUe).

(1:09:41) - And we're back from the break!

(1:09:46) - Solving the Easter Island population puzzle, Justin - https://goo.gl/9GDACD
(1:17:30) - NASA's Hubble Captures Blistering Pitch-Black Planet, Dr. Kiki - https://goo.gl/VzNhtH
See also — The Very Low Albedo of WASP-12b from Spectral Eclipse Observations with Hubble - https://goo.gl/8P3P3D
(1:27:24) - Non-avian dinosaur found to have laid blue eggs, Justin - https://goo.gl/Mji2j7
(1:33:45) - Is the sky really blue? Some hunter-gatherers don’t describe colors the same way most people do, Dr. Kiki - https://goo.gl/27NkzA

Quick Science Bytes! — 

(1:40:45) - Meta-Analysis of the Antidepressant Effects of Acute Sleep Deprivation, Dr. Kiki - https://goo.gl/KRxW7h
(1:44:53) - Scientists Can Now Repaint Butterfly Wings, Dr. Kiki - https://goo.gl/e5krbS
(1:47:38) - German study casts doubt on 'plastic digesting' caterpillars, Blair - https://goo.gl/A1gqm8
See previous story from April 2017 — Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting biodegradable solution to plastic pollution - https://goo.gl/87ZD1n
(1:50:14) - Artificial 'skin' gives robotic hand a sense of touch, Blair - https://goo.gl/wB4YYH
(1:51:58) - Study: US women report diverse preferences related to sexual pleasure, Justin - https://goo.gl/5kshwG

(1:58:07) - Show wrap up.

(1:58:55) - Thank you’s to patreon sponsors - with the credit scroll/crawl! 

(2:03:10) - End Theme

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

(2:06:43) - The After Show - A short after show? Dr. Kiki probably will not sleep contemplating all the ‘Color’ science stories tonight. She’s reading articles on colors and heading down a rabbit hole. Is Wikipedia a valid Science source? Blair gets lost in all the links & sub-links. Dr. Kiki wants to compare a pic of a lava flow to an Exoplanet. And Justin unknowingly teaches New Math. And much, much more…

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