What Would You Call It? - This Week in Science Podcast (TWIS)
Channel: This Week in Science (TWIS)
Date: 2021-11-17

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[For Story Links, please see our TWIS website for show notes —  https://www.twis.org/17-november-2021-episode-851-what-would-you-call-it/.]

(0:00) - Recording Start
(1:36) - Intro, Dr. Kiki 
(2:04) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - This week, done by Dr. Kiki!
(2:58) - Opening Theme Music, Dr. Kiki (um... after a couple false starts)
(3:34) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings - with Dr. Kiki & Blair (Justin is off for this week, he shall return!). Intros & Top Story Headlines. 

(5:26) - Quick Science Bytes! —

(5:28) - Scientists report finding a second person to be ‘naturally’ cured of HIV, raising hopes for future treatments, Dr. Kiki
(11:47) - Blair wants to know if it is time to stop naming things after people.
(19:56) - Newly-identified state in bacteria has major implications for antibiotic treatment and resistant strains - Dr. Kiki
(25:08) - Lungfish make cocoons out of their cells and bacteria, and it's awesome. - Dr. Kiki

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(29:05) - TWIS COVID-19/Sars-CoV-2/Coronavirus Update -
• https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
• https://covid19.who.int/ 

(29:24) - How did the US do on the vaccine rollout plan? Apparently, it was nearly perfect.
(33:40) - Why do pregnancies go wrong with COVID? It starts in the placenta.
(36:16) - There are potentially 5400 reservoir species for SARS-CoV-2. What does that mean?
(43:31) - Could we use antidepressants to treat COVID-19? The evidence keeps stacking up.

(48:25) - And we're at the break!

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(49:37) - And we're back!

(49:38) - Blair’s Animal Corner
(49:48) - Blair’s Animal Corner Theme
(50:12) - Do Orangutans make art? 
(1:01:08) - Do cats really care about their owners after-all?
(1:08:12) - Can we help corals by picking their champions?

More Science News with Dr. Kiki —

(1:14:31) - How can exercise reduce joint pain? And, what does it have to do with your gut?
(1:18:44) - How do Grandmother brains react to their grandchildren?
(1:23:30) - There are a lot of psychopaths out there.

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(1:29:59) - Show wrap-up

(1:30:52) - Thank you’s to our Patreon Sponsors

(1:34:23) - End Theme

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

(1:35:42) - The After Show! - You just might understand. Blair gets to sit now. Dr. Kiki's keyboard issues. We all expand to fill our spaces. Aaron Lieberman's gubernatorial race update. The Patreon/Discord TWIS server plug. A Cat person/Dog person question. Justin may or may not be in the chat, we'll post his quote so we'll feel like he's here. And much, much more...