It's Time for Change
Channel: This Week in Science (TWIS)
Date: 2020-06-03

Check out the live recording of the This Week In Science' podcast Episode #776, "It's Time for Change," with your hosts: Dr. Kiki, Blair, & Justin. Watch now to find out what happened This Week in Science...

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(0:00) - Recording Start
(1:41) - Intro, Dr. Kiki
(2:07) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - Justin
(3:53) - Opening Theme Music
(4:27) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings - with Dr. Kiki, Blair & Justin. Intros & Top Story Headlines. 

(6:53) - Dr. Kiki's talks about the George Floyd Protests and offers these links to donate —

• joincampaignzero.org
• eightcantwait.org 

(11:48) - New psychology research finds extreme protest actions reduce popular support for social movements, Dr. Kiki - https://bit.ly/extreme-protests
See also - The activist’s dilemma: Extreme protest actions reduce popular support for social movements - https://bit.ly/extreme-protests-2
(19:02) - Urban foxes may be self-domesticating in our midst, Dr. Kiki - https://bit.ly/urban-foxes
(24:28) - COVID-19 spurs increase in self-care, new survey shows, Blair - https://bit.ly/covid-19-self-care-increase
(30:37) - Study shows patients with hemorrhagic brain disease have disordered gut microbiomes, Justin - https://bit.ly/hemorrhagic-brain-disease-microbiome

(40:43) - Blair’s Animal Corner
(40:49) - Blair’s Animal Corner Theme
(41:11) - Royal jelly does not a queen make, Blair - https://bit.ly/royal-jelly-queen-bee
(44:57) - Experiments with macaques show lower stress levels when working with a friend toward a goal, Blair - https://bit.ly/low-stress-macaques-friends

(50:32) - And we're at the break!

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(51:46) - Interstitial Music - "Our 1st Assumptions Were Correct" by Jake Mann from his album, "Daytime Ghost." https://apple.co/2G3ERxV

(52:17) - Back from the break!

(52:26) - Human Mini-Livers Pave The Way For Made-To-Order Organ Transplants, Dr. Kiki - https://bit.ly/made-to-order-organ-transplants 
See also - Assembly and Function of a Bioengineered Human Liver for Transplantation Generated Solely from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (PDF) - https://bit.ly/made-to-order-organ-transplants-2-pdf 
(58:22) - Tulane scientists find a switch to flip and turn off breast cancer growth and metastasis, Justin - https://bit.ly/flip-breast-cancer-growth-off 
(1:03:25) - Thousands of Species Are Fleeing to Earth's Poles en Masse, And a Pattern's Emerging, Dr. Kiki - https://bit.ly/species-fleeing-to-poles 
(1:08:25) - Study: Reflecting sunlight to cool the planet will cause other global changes, Dr. Kiki - https://bit.ly/reflecting-sunlight-to-cool-planet noice
(1:17:39) - Piecing together the Dead Sea Scrolls with DNA evidence, Justin - https://bit.ly/dead-sea-scrolls-dna

Quick Science Bytes! — 

(1:25:33) - Effectiveness of the Felixer grooming trap for the control of feral cats: a field trial in arid South Australia, Dr. Kiki - https://bit.ly/trapping-feral-cats-australia
(1:29:24) - Yes, your dog wants to rescue you, Blair - https://bit.ly/your-dog-to-the-rescue 
(1:35:40) - Black Scientists: Past, Present and Future (YouTube Video from The Royal Institution) - https://bit.ly/black-scientists-video 
(1:37:10) - #BlackAFinStem Twitter account thread for Black Birders Week, Dr. Kiki - https://bit.ly/black-af-stem-twitter 
See also - https://bit.ly/black-af-stem-twitter-account 

(1:38:44) - Show wrap up.

(1:39:03) - Thank you’s to the Burroughs Welcome Fund (https://www.bwfund.org/) our Patreon Sponsors

(1:42:50) - End Theme

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

(1:46:17) - The After Show - Okay! We did it! With only a little ranting... An interesting week, to be sure. Much discussion ensues. And much, much more...