Will Leprosy Save Our Lives? - This Week in Science Podcast (TWIS)
Channel: This Week in Science (TWIS)
Date: 2022-11-16

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(0:00) - Recording Start (but then — uh-oh! Dr. Kiki froze & then had to restart. So, while that was happening, we have an introduction done by...)
(6:18) - Intro, Blair!
(6:51) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - Justin
(9:38) - Opening Theme Music
(10:13) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings with Dr. Kiki (she's back!), Blair & Justin will join soon, we hope!

(12:06) - Quick Science Bytes! —

(12:12) - World first trial to eradicate mice through gene modification, Dr. Kiki
See also — Leveraging a natural murine meiotic drive to suppress invasive populations
(19:49) - In vivo partial reprogramming by bacteria promotes adult liver organ growth without fibrosis and tumorigenesis, Justin
(27:03) - Making mosquitoes’ love songs fall on deaf ears, Blair
(32:47) - Artemis I mission shares spectacular view of Earth after a historic launch, Dr. Kiki
See also — Track NASA’s Artemis I Mission in Real Time — https://www.nasa.gov/specials/trackartemis/ 
(39:15... or... not???) - We start a Justin story on ancient peoples, but his connection is breaking up too much. He re-starts his connection and we get to it in the final block when he's back.

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(41:23) - And we're back from the break!

(41:25) - Blair’s Animal Corner
(41:34) - Blair’s Animal Corner Theme
(41:58) - Personality differences from day one after birth despite identical genes and identical environment, Blair
(50:25) - Sex role flexibility is key to evolution of homosexual partnerships in termites, Blair

More Science News —

(1:00:35) - Evidence for the cooking of fish 780,000 years ago at Gesher Benot Ya’aqov, Israel, Justin
(1:05:20) - New dating of the Matalascañas footprints provides new evidence of the Middle Pleistocene (MIS 9-8) hominin paleoecology in southern Europe, Justin
(1:07:24) - Presence or absence of stabilizing Earth system feedbacks on different time scales, Justin
(1:11:20) - Most Detailed Mapping of Our Brains' Memory Bank Reveals Something Surprising, Dr. Kiki
(1:16:50) - Exposing Brain Tissue to Psilocybin Provides Insights Into Consciousness, Depression and Anxiety, Dr. Kiki
(1:25:22) - A Brain Area Thought to Impart Consciousness Instead Behaves Like an Internet Router, Dr. Kiki
(1:29:48) - Scientists Created a Black Hole in The Lab, And Then It Started to Glow, Dr. Kiki

(1:31:49) - Show Wrap-up + volunteer thank you's.

(1:32:37) - Thank you’s to our Patreon Sponsors

(1:35:42) - End Theme

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

(1:37:08) - The After Show! - More getting the 2023 Calendar out there, like making web links. We now have a lovely cover pic of the 2023 TWIS Calendar. Special offers for Patreon subscribers will be made. And much, much more…