Science is All About Patience
Channel: This Week in Science (TWIS)
Date: 2020-11-04

Feeling anxious while results are tabulated & calculated? Dr. Kiki, Blair & Justin invite you to hit the "Pause" button on your nail-biting anxiety and instead, check out Episode 798 of This Week In Science (TWIS)!

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(0:00) - Recording Start
(7:05) - Intro, Dr. Kiki... WHOOPS! Start again...
(7:30) - REAL Intro, Dr. Kiki
(7:59) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - Justin
(8:45) - Opening Theme Music
(9:19) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings - with Dr. Kiki, Blair & Justin. Intros & Top Story Headlines. 

(12:31) - Quick Science Bytes! —

(12:40) - "Landmark" study resolves a major mystery of how genes govern human height, Dr. Kiki - https://bit.ly/2I9kZjU
(15:44) - Female hunters of the early Americas, Justin - https://bit.ly/3p0viYr
(22:40) - Shining a (UV) light on the glow-in-the-dark platypus, Blair - https://bit.ly/3erWfPA
(28:57) - Earwax sampling could be a cheap, effective way to measure stress hormone, Dr. Kiki - https://bit.ly/3et2fIb
(32:03) - Plot Twist: Eradicating black rats on Palmyra Atoll uncovers eye-opening indirect effects, Justin - https://bit.ly/363i0Sd
(38:55) - NASA calls Voyager 2, and the spacecraft answers from interstellar space, Dr. Kiki - https://bit.ly/3mRurHw

(44:24) - COVID-19/Sars-CoV-2 Update
• Johns Hopkins Covid-19 Tracker - https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html 
(44:42) - Selection, biophysical and structural analysis of synthetic nanobodies that effectively neutralize SARS-CoV-2, Dr. Kiki - https://go.nature.com/387ConU
(47:55) - COVID-19 Has Caused Over 1 Million Mink to Be Killed Due to Culling at Fur Farms, Dr. Kiki - https://bit.ly/38ckkJ7
(49:48) - Case study details leukemia patient who shed infectious SARS-CoV-2 for at least 70 days, Justin - https://bit.ly/3oXtIX0 
(54:07) - Postmortem lungs of COVID-19 patients show massive damage, Dr. Kiki - https://bit.ly/2GtdSSE

(58:29) - Blair’s Animal Corner
(58:42) - Blair’s Animal Corner Theme
(59:05) - Dull-colored birds don't see the world like colorful birds do, Blair - https://bit.ly/38ecuyO
(1:08:45) - International study uncovers secret surfing life of remoras hitchhiking on blue whales, Blair - https://bit.ly/387xes2

(1:16:39) - And we're at the break! 

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(1:17:24) - And we're back!

More Science News —

(1:17:25) - Denisovan DNA in the genome of early East Asians, Justin - https://bit.ly/38d2pCk
(1:20:57) - Psychedelic treatment with psilocybin relieves major depression, study shows, Justin - https://bit.ly/3lcOnEx
(1:28:56) - Corporations directing our attention online more than we realize, Dr. Kiki - https://bit.ly/3eppBOO
(1:35:57) - Black Holes - The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End, Dr. Kiki - https://bit.ly/3jUTkQB

(1:39:21) - TWIS User Question - A TWIS Minion & friend of the Show poses a head scratcher about our ability to take a blast-from-the-past galactic selfie.

(1:49:10) - Show wrap up.

(1:49:53) - Thank you’s to the Burroughs Welcome Fund (https://www.bwfund.org/) and our Patreon Sponsors

(1:51:15) - NEXT WEEK: Interview with Science Writer Marta Zaraska (Twitter - @mzaraska) on how to grow younger while growing older!

(1:53:12) - End Theme

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