Why Are Lemurs???
Channel: This Week in Science (TWIS)
Date: 2020-08-05

Want to know what is going on This Week in Science??? Check out Episode 785 to learn all about lemurs! With your hosts, Dr. Kiki, Blair & Justin, and this week's very special interview guest, Dr. Lydia Greene of the Duke Lemur Center.
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(0:00) - Recording Start
(0:38) - Intro, Dr. Kiki
(1:05) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - Justin 
(2:23) - Opening Theme Music
(2:58) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings - with Dr. Kiki, Blair, Justin & our special guest, Dr. Brian Hare. Intros & Top Story Headlines. 

(5:18) - Quick Science Bytes!

(5:21) - Early Mars was covered in ice sheets, not flowing rivers, Dr. Kiki - https://bit.ly/early-mars-ice-sheets 
See also - https://go.nature.com/2EPiP76 
(7:35) - 35-second scan could pick the next sporting champion, Justin - https://bit.ly/35-second-scan-sports-champion
(15:40) - Grooming behavior between dairy cows reveals complex social network, Blair - https://bit.ly/dairy-cow-grooming 
(20:15) - Human sperm uses asymmetric and anisotropic flagellar controls to regulate swimming symmetry and cell steering, Dr. Kiki - https://bit.ly/swimming-sperm-guideance 
See also - https://bit.ly/sperm-swimming-guideance-2
(24:51) - Ammonia sparks unexpected, exotic lightning on Jupiter, Justin - https://bit.ly/jupiter-exotic-ammonia-lightning
(28:31) - Some spiders may spin poisonous webs laced with neurotoxins, Kirsten (Blair?) - https://bit.ly/poisonous-spider-webs 

(32:04) - Start of Interview with Dr. Lydia Greene

Dr. Lydia Greene is a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Biology in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University working at the Duke Lemur Center. 

(1:09:29) - Where can people find out more about Dr. Lydia Greene?

• https://lydiakgreene.weebly.com/
• https://instagram.com/lemurscientist
• https://lemur.duke.edu
• Twitter - @DukeLemurCenter

(1:11:31) - Interview Wrap Up & Thank you's.

(1:11:52) - And we're at the break!

(1:11:57) - 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/thisweekinscience). 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!

(1:12:45) - Back from the break!

(1:12:52) - Covid-19 and SARS-CoV2 Update, Dr. Kiki - 
• NY Times Coronavirus U.S. Map - https://nyti.ms/3cY0fW0
• Our World in Data's Coronavirus (COVID-19) Deaths - https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths & https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-covid-cases-region
• Johns Hopkins Covid-19 Tracker - https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
• STAT News The Covid-19 Tracker, Dr. Kiki - https://bit.ly/stat-covid-19-tracker
(1:13:36) - Children Often Carry More Coronavirus than Adults Do: Study, Dr. Kiki - https://bit.ly/children-carry-much-coronavirus 
(1:14:56) - Determining the optimal strategy for reopening schools, the impact of test and trace interventions, and the risk of occurrence of a second COVID-19 epidemic wave in the UK: a modelling study, Dr. Kiki - https://bit.ly/uk-strategy-reopening-schools 
See also - Assessment in the United States - https://bit.ly/us-school-reopening-strategy 
(1:19:17) - COVID-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool, Dr. Kiki - https://covid19risk.biosci.gatech.edu/ 
(1:25:18) - Ancient Part of Immune System May Underpin Severe COVID, Dr. Kiki - https://bit.ly/ancient-immunity-severe-covid-19-1 
See also - PDF Download - https://bit.ly/ancient-immunity-severe-covid-19-pdf 

Science News —
(1:28:33) - New molecule reverses Alzheimer's-like memory decline, Justin - https://bit.ly/molecule-reverses-alzheimers 
(1:34:52) - "Holy Grail" MS discovery could prevent disability using diabetes drug, Dr. Kiki - https://bit.ly/ms-prevention-discovery-1 
See also - https://bit.ly/ms-prevention-discovery-2 
(1:40:04) - Energy demands limit our brains’ information processing capacity, Dr. Kiki - https://bit.ly/energy-limits-brain-processing 

(1:46:52) - Blair’s Animal Corner
(1:47:02) - Blair’s Animal Corner Theme
(1:47:25) - Leopards, wolves vanishing from panda conservation areas: study, Blair - https://bit.ly/leopards-wolves-disappear-panda-area 
(1:54:57) - An insect species can actively escape from the vents of predators via the digestive system, Blair - https://bit.ly/insect-escapes-via-predator-digestive-tract 

(2:02:05) - User Question?? TWIS Kurt Lansen asks about children returning to school in the Covid-19 pandemic related to the Hygiene Hypothesis.

(2:13:36) - Show wrap up

(2:14:14) - Thank you’s to our Patreon Sponsors & the Burroughs Welcome Fund (https://www.bwfund.org).

(2:17:43) - End Theme

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

(2:21:17) - The After Show! Erik from Alaska in the chat room says the circus melody is: "The March of the Gladiators." Dr. Kiki doesn't think the show is funded by the juggalos. But who knows? Magnets — HOW DO THEY WERK?!