When Irish Pi Are Smiling - This Week in Science Podcast (TWIS) - Episode 867
Channel: This Week in Science (TWIS)
Date: 2022-03-16

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(0:00) - Recording Start (...where's Justin?)
(4:01) - Intro, Dr. Kiki 
(4:26) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - written by Justin, read by Blair
(6:21) - Opening Theme Music
(6:56) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings - with Dr. Kiki & Blair — Justin should join soon. Intros & Top Story Headlines.

(9:08) - Justin joins us... finally! U.S. Daylight Savings change threw him off.

(10:33) - Quick Science Bytes! —

(10:36) -  Mammalian offspring derived from a single unfertilized egg, Dr. Kiki
(19:16) - Magnitude, frequency and climate forcing of global volcanism during the last glacial period as seen in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores (60–9 ka), Justin
(24:51) - Male jockeys have no more influence over the performance of racehorses than do female jockeys, Blair
(33:23) - NASA releases first image from an in-focus Webb telescope, Dr. Kiki
(36:38) - Assessing the magnitude of reporting bias in trials of homeopathy: a cross-sectional study and meta- analysis, Justin
(47:52) - Half-century of protection pays off for sea turtles, Blair
(52:17) - Systematic reconstruction of cellular trajectories across mouse embryogenesis, Dr. Kiki

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...More minions, please!

(55:44) - TWIS COVID-19/Sars-CoV-2/Coronavirus Update -
• https://covid19.who.int/ 
• https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

(55:50) - COVID cases are again on the rise globally as testing, health measures decline, Dr. Kiki
(58:00) - School mask mandates in the U.S. reduced coronavirus transmission, Dr. Kiki

(1:02:44) - And we're at the break!

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(1:03:07) - And we're back!

(1:03:09) - Blair’s Animal Corner
(1:03:20) - Blair’s Animal Corner Theme
(1:03:41) - Camouflage or communication: How birds use odor, Blair
(1:11:05) - Justin chimes in with a UC Davis Story on trees
(1:13:46) - How scientists are using DNA testing to disrupt international ivory smuggling networks, Blair

More Science News —

(1:19:39) - U.S. fires four times larger, three times more frequent since 2000, Justin
(1:26:19) - How Indigenous burning shaped the Klamath’s forests for a millennia, Justin
(1:34:21) - Huge Forest fires don't cause living trees to release much carbon, OSU research shows, Dr. Kiki
(1:36:14) - Photo or the Real Thing? Mice Can Inherently Recall and Tell Them Apart, Dr. Kiki
(1:43:21) - How The Brain Encodes Social Rank And “Winning Mindset” [in mice], Dr. Kiki

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(1:53:59) - Show Wrap-up

(1:54:50) - Thank you’s to our Patreon Sponsors

(1:57:53) - End Theme

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

(1:59:14) - The After Show! - For the long show. Justin is GONE. Does Dr. Kiki lay eggs or not? Blair thinks so. Much egg talk. Blair wants to YELL and be SHOUTY BLAIR about how the senate wrote the daylight savings bill. Justin's mule. And much, much more...