Science Loves Palindromes
Channel: This Week in Science (TWIS)
Date: 2021-01-20

What happened 'This Week in Science'??? This week with a Presidential palindromic day, and this episode 808? Find out now with TWIS!

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(0:00) - Recording Start  
(3:12) - Intro, Dr. Kiki
(3:39) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - Justin
(5:16) - Opening Theme Music, Dr. Kiki
(5:50) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings - with Dr. Kiki, Blair & Justin. Intros & Top Story Headlines. 

(8:49) - Quick Science Bytes! —

(8:55) - Biden appoints geneticist Eric Lander as science adviser, & proposes a science-led New Deal to end pandemic suffering - Dr. Kiki
(15:12) - New antifungal compound from ant farms in Brazil - Justin 
(18:41) - Are partially protected areas the 'red herrings' of marine conservation? - Blair 
(25:31) - Catnip leaves kitties feline groovy, wards off mosquitoes: study - Dr. Kiki
(31:13) - Study in twins identifies fecal microbiome differences in food allergies. Could this help solve food allergies? - Justin 
(40:55) - Unlocking "the shape of water" in mechanisms of antibiotic resistance - Dr. Kiki

(45:49) - COVID-19/Sars-CoV-2 Update
• Johns Hopkins Covid-19 Tracker - https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html 
• WHO Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Dashboard - http://bit.ly/who-covid-19-dashboard  -or-  https://covid19.who.int 
• NY Times Coronavirus U.S. Map - https://nyti.ms/3cY0fW0 

(46:04) -   New coronavirus variants could cause more reinfections, require updated vaccines - Dr. Kiki
(48:27) - Causal impact of masks, policies, behavior on early covid-19 pandemic in the U.S. - Dr. Kiki
(49:26) - Mask-wearing and control of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the USA: a cross-sectional study - Dr. Kiki

(57:46) - Blair’s Animal Corner
(58:03) - Blair’s Animal Corner Theme
(58:24) - Beetle keeps rivals off scent of food buried for offspring
(1:06:23) - Scientists discover electric eels hunting in a group
(1:14:39) - 1st preserved dinosaur butthole is "perfect" and "unique," paleontologist says

(1:25:07) - And we're at the break! 

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More Science News —

(1:26:17) - Brain cell network supplies neurons with energy - Justin
(1:33:06) - Optical data transmission speed increased by a factor of at least 10,000 - Justin 
(1:39:44) - Who needs a teacher? Artificial intelligence designs lesson plans for itself - Dr. Kiki
(1:50:56) - Deep sleep takes out the trash for fruit flies and mice - Dr. Kiki 

(1:55:01) - TWIS User Questions? — TWIS Minion Sara writes in with a question about the new Covid-19 vaccines: can those who get the vaccine still be spreaders of the disease?

(2:02:21) - Show wrap up.

(2:03:06) - Thank you’s to the Burroughs Welcome Fund (https://www.bwfund.org/) and our Patreon Sponsors

(2:07:16) - End Theme

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

(2:10:46) - The After Show! — Dr. Kiki's Google is _not_ responding. It's amazing she's still broadcasting. Spinning Wheel O' Death. Blair holds the fort. So many living presidents. Chocolates in biological shapes. Gweneth Paltrow candles. And much, much more...