How Do You Dig Fossils? - This Week in Science Podcast (TWIS) - Episode 846
Channel: This Week in Science (TWIS)
Date: 13/10/2021

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(0:00) - Recording Start
(2:12) - Intro, Dr. Kiki 
(2:38) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - Justin
(3:42) - Opening Theme Music, Dr. Kiki
(4:15) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings - with Dr. Kiki & Justin (Blair is off for these next two weeks). Intros & Top Story Headlines. 

Happy International Fossil Day, Everyone!

(5:16) - President Biden to restore 3 national monuments cut by Trump, Dr. Kiki

(8:29) - Quick Science Bytes! —

(8:35) - William Shatner sets record in space with Blue Origin spaceflight, Dr. Kiki
(8:53) - Arrived! NASA's $10 billion James Webb Telescope that can unlock some of the universe's greatest secrets comes onshore in French Guiana after 16-day sea journey, Dr. Kiki
(9:09) - A crystal ball into our solar system's future, Dr. Kiki
(12:55) - Brain injury after long-duration spaceflight, Dr. Kiki
(15:54) - Carbon dissolved in Arctic rivers affects our world—here’s how to study it, Justin
(17:12) - Ancient poop shows people in present-day Austria drank beer and ate blue cheese up to 2,700 years ago, Justin
(22:04) - Perseverance rover reveals an ancient delta-lake system and flood deposits at Jezero crater, Mars, Dr. Kiki
(27:52) - The climate-driven mass extinction no one had seen, Justin
(35:42) - Strange radio waves emerge from the direction of the galactic centre, Dr. Kiki

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(41:44) - (NOT QUITE) Blair’s Animal Corner
(42:48) - Gorillas can tell human voices apart, Dr. Kiki
(49:33) - A biomechanical perspective on molar emergence and primate life history, Dr. Kiki
See also — A study of skull growth and tooth emergence reveals that timing is everything

(52:40) - And we're at the break!
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(53:22) - Back from the break!

More Science News —

(53:25) - Ecological selectivity and the evolution of mammalian substrate preference across the K–Pg boundary, Justin
(58:32) - Physicists propose a new method for defending the Earth against cosmic impacts, Justin
(1:01:27) - A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea, Justin
(1:09:07) - Autofluorescent imprint of chronic constriction nerve injury identified by deep learning, Dr. Kiki
(1:15:39) - Chemists' dye method holds promise for long-term data storage, Dr. Kiki

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(1:23:36) - Show wrap-up

(1:24:39) - Thank you’s to our Patreon Sponsors

(1:28:16) - End Theme

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

(1:29:44) - The After Show! -  Justin usually disappears at the start of the after show... more music... Yes! Please: more subscribers to our TWIS Patreon. Just what _does_ happen during an after show? Dr. Kiki's son is doing well in school, and yes, is already tired of school. Justin has a great NASA shirt. And much, much more...