Daylight Science Time - This Week in Science Podcast (TWIS) - Episode 712
Channel: This Week in Science (TWIS)
Date: 2019-03-13

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(0:00) - Recording Start - Justin & a Microphone, sitting in a tree...
(1:00) - Show Start, Intro - Dr. Kiki 
(1:27) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Justin
(3:12) - Opening Theme Music.
(3:46) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings - with Dr. Kiki & Justin. Intros & Top Story Headlines. 

(6:44) - TWIS will be recording LIVE in front of an audience in Portland, Oregon on Wednesday, April 3rd @ 7:00 p.m. at The Alberta Rose Theater. Get your tickets here: http://bit.ly/twis-live-in-portland

(7:00) -  Drumpf once again requests deep cuts in U.S. science spending, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/trump-science-cuts 
(16:48) - Signs of biological activities of 28,000-year-old mammoth nuclei in mouse oocytes visualized by live-cell imaging, Dr. Kiki - https://go.nature.com/2CkFx2P 5
(27:57) - Researchers find a piece of Paleolithic art featuring birds and humans, Justin - http://bit.ly/paleolithic-art 

(33:31) - Blair’s Animal Corner
(33:41) - Blair’s Animal Corner Theme (Oh! It's gonna work! Ok, great!)
(34:03) - This Animal's Anus Only Exists When It Needs to Poop, And We Have So Many Questions, Blair - http://bit.ly/vanishing-anus 
(45:06) - Study confirms horseshoe crabs are really relatives of spiders, scorpions, Blair - http://bit.ly/crabs-are-spiders

(54:36) - And we're at the break!
(54:54) - Half-Time Theme Music  - "Our 1st Assumptions Were Correct" by Jake Mann from his album, "Daytime Ghost." https://apple.co/2G3ERxV

(55:27) - This is where you can find out about the upcoming TWIS LIVE show with Science On Tap in Portland, Oregon on Wednesday, April 3rd @ 7:00 p.m. (http://bit.ly/twis-live-in-portland), our Zazzle store (http://www.zazzle.com/thisweekinscience) and supporting us through Paypal (http://bit.ly/twis-paypal) and Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thisweekinsci... 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!

(59:18) - Interstitial Music

(1:00:12) - Back from the break!

(1:00:17) - What has Science done for ME, lately?
TWIS Minion Ashleigh shares how Science helped not her, but an utter stranger who received her peripheral blood stem cell donation to cure their ALL - acute lymphoblastic leukemia - through BeTheMatch.org (you can join & donate too!).
send Science stories to kirsten@thisweekinscience.com 

(1:05:53) -  Prehistoric Britons rack up food miles for feasts near Stonehenge, Justin - http://bit.ly/prehistoric-brit-food-hoarders 
(1:15:46) - What scientists found after sifting through dust in the solar system, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/solar-system-dust 
(1:23:35) - Avocado seed extract shows promise as anti-inflammatory compound, Justin - http://bit.ly/anti-inflammatory-avocado 
(1:28:51) - Scientists Think a Gene Causes Birth Control to Fail in Some Women, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/anti-birth-control-gene 
(1:36:25) - Hidden compounds in many medications can trigger allergies, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/medicines-that-cause-allergies

Quick Science Bytes! — 

(1:41:02) - Physicists Hunt for Secret to Detangling Hair, Blair - http://bit.ly/physicist-beauticians 
(1:45:53) - The power of gratitude in the workplace, Dr. Kiki - http://bit.ly/workplace-gratitude 

(1:49:04) - Show wrap up.

(1:49:36) - Thank you’s to our generous Patreon sponsors

(1:51:13) - NEXT WEEK - An Interview on the Genetics of ALS with Christopher Donnelly!

(1:53:34) - End Theme

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

(1:57:04) - The After Show - Not gonna go super late. Blair is about to deal with a bunch of young graduates. And much, much more...