Eat Two Pies for Science! - This Week in Science Podcast (TWIS)
Channel: This Week in Science (TWIS)
Date: 2023-06-29

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(0:00) - Recording Start
(1:36) - Intro, Blair
(2:03) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - Justin
(4:23) - Opening Theme Music
(4:57) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings with Blair & Justin — no Dr. Kiki this week, she's out, but she will be back!

(7:55) - Quick Science Bytes! —

(8:34) - New study sheds light on the evolution of animals, Justin
(18:01) - Do hummingbirds drink alcohol? More often than you think, Blair
(24:01) - New bioinspired robot flies, rolls, walks, and more, Justin
(31:11) - Dolphin moms use baby talk to call to their young, recordings show, Blair

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(35:39) - Blair’s Animal Corner
(35:47) - Blair’s Animal Corner Theme
(36:09) - Researchers discover that worms use electricity to jump, Blair
(43:40) - Hot testicles may hold the secret to elephants' anti-cancer genes, suggests new study, Blair 

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...More minions, please!

More Science News —

(52:40) - Early Pleistocene cut marked hominin fossil from Koobi Fora, Kenya, Justin
(1:07:31) - Mucuna pruriens found to both increase and decrease sperm count in the same study, Justin
(1:12:27) - Study evaluating N95 masks includes anomalies, publishes without data, Justin

(1:20:25) - Show Wrap-up + volunteer thank you's.

(1:20:45) - Thank you’s to our Patreon Sponsors

(1:24:02) - End Theme

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

(1:25:15) - The After Show! - Y'awll come back now, ya hear? Justin has a baby to attend to. So does Blair. Justin wants to do the Bad Science report. Blair has no more lung capacity and is gasping for air to talk. Like Lloyd Bridges in "Sea Hunt." And much, much more …