Robots For People  - This Week in Science (TWIS) Podcast - Episode 665
Channel: This Week in Science (TWIS)
Date: 2018-04-04

Robots For People - Watch Episode 665 of the This Week in Science Podcast (TWIS), with hosts Dr. Kiki, Blair Bazdarich, Justin Jackson & our special interview guest, Roboticist Dr. Ayanna Howard, now!

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

(0:00) - Recording Start - echo? echo? is there and echo...?
(0:41) - Show Start, Intro - Dr. Kiki
(1:03) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - Justin
(2:15) - Opening Theme Music
(2:49) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings - with Dr. Kiki, Blair & Justin. Intros & Top Story Headlines.

(4:37) - Interview w/ Dr. Ayanna Howard
http://howard.ece.gatech.edu/

(5:45) - Video came out this week about Dr. Ayanna Howard - see - http://bit.ly/dr-howard-video

[Ed. note - folks, YouTube just doesn't give us enough room in this field for the whole interview, for the whole interview notes and time codes, go here - http://bit.ly/dr-howard-interview]

(45:00) -  Interview wrap-up - how to find you on-line?
http://howard.ece.gatech.edu/
https://www.zyrobotics.com/
http://humanslab.ece.gatech.edu/

(45:51) - And we're at the break!
(46:14) - Half-Time Theme Music. (Yay! Music Sound working again!)

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(50:57) - Interstitial Music - George Hrab, "Skeptic," from his album "Vitriol." (https://goo.gl/oPXF2c).

(51:31) - And we're back from the break!

(51:40) - What has Science done for ME, lately?
A story of how medical science saved TWIS Minion Bruce R. Cordell from dual pulmonary embolisms.
Please send your own science stories to kirsten@thisweekinscience.com or message us on Facebook - facebook.com/ThisWeekinScience.
 
(55:50) - Is there life adrift in the clouds of Venus?, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/life-venus
See also - Venus' Spectral Signatures and the Potential for Life in the Clouds - http://bit.ly/life-venus-2
(1:05:38) -  A swarm of black holes may be lurking in our galaxy’s heart, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/black-holes-galaxy
See also - A density cusp of quiescent X-ray binaries in the central parsec of the Galaxy - https://go.nature.com/2q5TkDy
(1:12:03) - Machine learning algorithm suggests ancient hominin remains not part of ritualistic burial, Justin - http://bit.ly/2Gysn6D
(1:20:43) - New 'NanoZymes' use light to kill bacteria, Justin - http://bit.ly/nanozymes

(1:28:13) - Blair’s Animal Corner
(1:28:27) - Blair’s Animal Corner Theme.
(1:28:47) - Monterey Bay Aquarium study finds sea turtles use flippers to manipulate food, Blair - http://bit.ly/sea-turtle-flippers
(1:33:18) - Spa therapy helps Japan's snow monkeys cope with the cold, Blair - http://bit.ly/japan-macaques

(1:39:55) - China’s “Heavenly Palace” returns to Earth and burns up, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/tiangong-1
(1:43:22) - Birds get their internal compass from this newly ID’d eye protein, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/bird-compass
(1:47:39) - Smokers have worse diets than non-smokers, Blair - http://bit.ly/smoker-diet

(1:53:58) - Show wrap up

(1:55:22) - Thank you’s to patreon sponsors - no credit scroll/crawl this week, sorry!

(1:58:48) - End Theme

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

(2:02:21) - The After Show - finished another episode! It was a Science Turducken! Blair gave everyone a fit of the giggles. A game of chicken that no one wins. Funny voices. It’s International Rat Day - Check your TWIS Calendar. Blair is coming up with ideas for next year’s TWIS calendar. Justin shares his Science & Art piece. And much, much more…