Digging Up Science Bones
Channel: This Week in Science (TWIS)
Date: 2021-02-10

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[For Story Links, please see our TWIS web site for show notes — https://www.twis.org/10-february-2021-episode-811-digging-for-science-bones/.]

(0:00) - Recording Start  
(2:25) - Intro, Dr. Kiki
(2:50) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - Justin
(3:45) - Opening Theme Music, Dr. Kiki
(4:20) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings - with Dr. Kiki, Blair & Justin. Intros & Top Story Headlines. 

(6:21) - Quick Science Bytes! —

(6:24) - Latent developmental potential to form limb-like skeletal structures in zebrafish, Dr. Kiki
See also - A Simple Genetic Change Adds Limb-Like Bones to Zebrafish Fins
See also - Harvard Dept. of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Paper, "Can a Fin Become a Limb?" 
(12:30) - Ancient seashell resonates after 18,000 years, Justin
See also - Soundcloud recording of Conch sound
(18:14) -  Deforestation is stressing mammals out, Blair
(22:21) - Artificial Intelligence and Fractals: Pre-training without Natural Images, Dr. Kiki
(29:24) - On the origin of our species, Justin
(36:01) - Climate Change Is Creating a Nightmare for Allergy Sufferers, Dr. Kiki
(39:16) - Scientists Discover an Immense, Unknown Hydrocarbon Cycle Hiding in The Oceans, Dr. Kiki

(44:08) - Blair’s Animal Corner
(44:26) - Blair’s Animal Corner Theme
(44:50) - Dragonflies perform upside down backflips to right themselves, Blair
(55:00) - Baby vampire bat adopted by mom's best friend, Blair 

(1:04:42) - And we're at the break! 

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More Science News —

(1:06:23) - Google Scholar renders documents not in English invisible, Justin
(1:14:52) - Researchers find broad impacts from political polarization, Justin
(1:25:07) - Common anti-depressant may be first-ever treatment for osteoarthritis, Dr. Kiki 
(1:30:12) -  Susceptibility To Depression May Link Back To Sperm — Study, Dr. Kiki

(1:40:52) - Show wrap up - with a story about the furthest object found in our solar system, called "Farfarout!" - Astronomers confirm orbit of most distant object ever observed in our solar system - https://phys.org/news/2021-02-astronomers-orbit-distant-solar.html

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(1:49:20) - NEXT WEEK - We'll be talking Fungus with Ivan Liachko (Twitter - @ivanliachko) of Phase Genomics (https://phasegenomics.com/, Twitter - @phasegenomics).

(1:51:13) - End Theme

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

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