How is Science Just Like the Olympics? - This Week in Science Podcast (TWIS) - Episode 980

What happened 'This Week in Science'??? Find out more with TWIS - the best weekly science news podcast! Join us for our live weekly broadcasts on Wednesdays at 8pm PT! Support us on Patreon! http://patreon.com/ThisWeekinScience Listen to the full episode in audio or check out the show notes with story links at our website: http://www.twis.org Follow us on Twitter AND Instagram! @TWIScience On Mastodon! https://universeodon.com/@TWIScience Subscribe to us on YouTube! http://youtube.com/ThisWeekinScience?sub_confirmation=1 View more science-filled videos like this: https://goo.gl/4luU1E - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [For Story Links, please see our TWIS website — https://www.twis.org/.] (0:00) - Recording Start (2:25) - Intro, Dr. Kiki (2:56) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - Justin (4:01) - Opening Theme Music (4:36) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings with Dr. Kiki, Blair, and Justin. (9:32) - Quick Science Bytes! — (9:39) - Your nose has its own army of immune cells — here’s how it protects you [Nature], Dr. Kiki See also — Immunological memory diversity in the human upper airway [Nature] (16:50) - Virus that causes COVID-19 is widespread in wildlife, Virginia Tech scientists find [EurekaAlert!], Justin (27:26) - Hippos don't fly, but the massive animals can get airborne [Phys.org], Blair (36:32) - What no one has seen before: gravitational waveforms from warp drive collapse [The Open Journal of Astrophysics], Dr. Kiki See also — What No One Has Seen Before: Gravitational Waveforms From Warp Drive Collapse [arxiv.org - Research Paper] (46:25) - Humans are born to run [EurekaAlert!], Justin (59:23) - Trust in physicians and hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic in a 50-state survey of US adults [EurekaAlert!], Justin (1:00:29) - State policies regulating firearms and changes in firearm mortality [EurekaAlert!], Justin (1:01:22) - Cannabinoid CBG reduces anxiety and stress in first human clinical trial [EurekaAlert!], Justin (1:08:15) - And we're at the break! (1:08:22) - Do tell friends about TWIS and have them listen & subscribe! • Twitter — @TWIScience • Mastodon — https://universeodon.com/@TWIScience • Instagram — @TWIScience • Facebook — http://facebook.com/ThisWeekinScience • Bluesky — @twiscience.bsky.social • Twitch — https://www.twitch.tv/twiscience • Web site — https://www.twis.org/ • Please log into https://www.reddit.com/r/podcasts/ and promote This Week In Science there! ...More minions, please! (1:08:40) - Become a TWIS Producer! Please support us through Patreon — https://www.patreon.com/thisweekinscience/. Help support TWIS by buying our great Schwag at our TWIS Zazzle Store, including many pieces of art & design by our own Blair Bazdarich! https://www.zazzle.com/store/thisweekinscience. (1:09:32) - And we're back from the break! And it's the return of... (1:09:37) - Blair’s Animal Corner! (1:09:43) - Blair’s Animal Corner Theme (1:10:07) - Komodo dragons have iron-coated teeth to rip apart their prey, researchers find [Phys.org], Blair (1:16:11) - Research shows that brown treesnakes frequently kill prey too large to swallow [Phys.org], Blair Even More Science News — (1:22:05) - Combined perceptual and chemical analyses show no compelling evidence for ovulatory cycle shifts in women’s axillary odour [The Royal Society Publishing], Dr. Kiki (1:28:37) - Getting drugs into the brain is hard. Maybe a parasite can do the job [ScienceNews], Dr. Kiki - (1:32:18) - Using the term "artificial intelligence" in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions [Washington State University Insider], Dr. Kiki See also — Adverse impacts of revealing the presence of “Artificial Intelligence (AI)” technology in product and service descriptions on purchase intentions: the mediating role of emotional trust and the moderating role of perceived risk [Taylor & Francis Online] (1:44:39) - Show Wrap-up + volunteer thank you's. (1:45:41) - Thank you’s to our Patreon Sponsors (1:49:13) - End Theme And that's all, folks! Except, we still have... (1:50:28) - The After Show! - We never represent anyone's views, but our own. Blair had Covid-19, again. She ate outside for a week, slept on an air mattress in the spare room, wore a mask in her house, and did not give it to anyone else in her family — she's over it now, testing negative. Dr. Kiki is hoarse from yelling a lot last weekend. Dr. Kiki's birthday is nigh! A.I. will NOT replace human musicians. And much, much more …