Summertime Science! - This Week in Science Podcast (TWIS) - Episode 624
Channel: This Week in Science (TWIS)
Date: 2017-06-21

Episode 624 - Summertime Science! - This week on TWIS (@TWIScience):  no Dr. Kiki (@drkiki) this week, she's out having fun, but hosts Justin Jackson (@jacksonfly) and Blair Bazdarich (@blairsmenagerie) are here!

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

(0:00) - Recording Start (with some microphone levels testing)
(0:52) - Show Start, Intro - Blair
(1:12) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - this week by... Justin
(2:18) - Opening Theme Music.
(2:52) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings - with Dr. Kiki, Blair & Justin. Intros & Top Story Headlines.

(3:41) - What has Science done for ME, lately?
"Hello Dr. Kiki.  
My wife, Marjory, and I are long time listeners who absolutely love your show and decided to check-in from Tigard, OR to share how science has helped us lately.
In October my wife and I participated in an event where she ran a half marathon a day for a week (each in a different state in the southeast) and I did the same running a marathon in each state.  A couple weeks ago we repeated this but this time in the northeast.  That is 14 marathons/half-marathons completed in just over 7 months.  A few decades ago it was thought impossible that anyone (including elite athletes) could complete even a single marathon and now we have regular folks like us completing seven in a week.  Modern medicine, training, exercise, diet, advanced clothing and shoe technologies are just a few of the scientific advances that have made a ridiculous goal like this obtainable to regular people.
It makes me wonder what incredible and impossible feat for us science will make commonplace for our children or grand-children.  Its enough to make you misty eyed.  :)
-Minion Joe Cloutier"
Please send your own science stories to kikifinch@gmail.com or message us on Facebook - facebook.com/ThisWeekinScience.

(5:52) - Board game helps Mexican coffee farmers grasp complex ecological interactions, Blair - https://goo.gl/d9MokJ 
(10:13) - A wooden toe: Swiss Egyptologists study 3,000-year-old prosthesis, Blair - https://goo.gl/z8KSbD 
(14:56) - Experts set out plan to tackle 'questionable integrity' of medical evidence, Justin - https://goo.gl/ahJuee 
(22:17) - Climate change label leads to climate science acceptance, Justin - https://goo.gl/ofVEDx 

(28:04) - Blair’s Animal Corner
(28:30) - Blair’s Animal Corner Theme.
(28:52) - Monkey see, monkey do, depending on age, experience and efficiency, Blair - https://goo.gl/oEUuFL 
(34:04) - Female elk can learn to avoid hunters with age, Blair - https://goo.gl/v1e5uL 

(42:10) - And we're at the break!
(42:26) - Half-Time Theme Music.

(42:53) - This is where you can find out about 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!

(46:43) - Interstitial Music: George Hrab, "Skeptic," from the album "Vitriol." (https://itun.es/us/H1qUe).

(47:02) - And we're back from the break!

(47:09) - Fossil holds new insights into how fish evolved onto land, Justin - https://goo.gl/sM1u9X 
(53:19) - Mountain lions fear humans, fleeing when they hear our voices, new study reveals, Blair - https://goo.gl/Bn56sx 
(1:00:26) - Corn better used as food than biofuel, study finds, Justin - https://goo.gl/9VkGb8 
(1:04:43) - Probiotics could improve survival rates in honey bees exposed to pesticide, study finds, Blair - https://goo.gl/yfS8LN 

Quick Science Bytes! — 

(1:08:22) - Cuttlefish Pretend to be Crabs to Catch More Fish, Blair - https://goo.gl/a45yPA
(1:11:28) - The brain mechanism behind multitasking, Justin - https://goo.gl/TAogZj 

(1:18:54) - Wrap up

(1:19:03) - Thank you’s to patreon sponsors - the credit scroll/crawl. 

(1:23:38) - End Theme

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

(1:27:06) - The After Show - a quick one, as Blair was a bit sick, but she still feels if she leaves, EVERYONE DIES! (remember, Zero Voice = NO SHOUTY BLAIR.) The continuing confusion over the series of tubs that are Google+ Hangouts & YouTube; an update on Justin's Chromebook (now in possession of his daughter; and much, much more...

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