April Fools Are Cancelled! - Episode 767 - This Week in Science Podcast (TWIS)

This Week In Science's Episode #767, "April Fools Are Cancelled!," 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
(3:22) - Intro, Dr. Kiki
(3:50) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - Justin
(5:12) - Opening Theme Music
(5:46) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings - with Dr. Kiki, Blair & Justin. Intros & Top Story Headlines.

(11:42) - A Quick Update on the Flu Season in the U.S., and SARS-CoV2 Globally, Dr. Kiki

(12:00) - Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Dr. Kiki - https://bit.ly/johns-hopkins-covid-19-map-update
(13:02) - How Long Should Social Distancing Last? Predicting Time to Moderation, Control, and Containment of COVID-19, Dr. Kiki - https://bit.ly/covid-19-how-long-to-quarantine
See also - Research: Lockdowns need to last more than six weeks to contain COVID-19 - https://bit.ly/covid-19-quarantine-longer-than-six-weeks
(21:13) - New study sheds light on coronavirus infection mechanism, Dr. Kiki - https://bit.ly/cornonavirus-infection-mechanism-1
(22:46) - Why health experts aren't warning about coronavirus in food, Dr. Kiki - https://bit.ly/coronavirus-and-food
(24:59) - Missing link in coronavirus jump from bats to humans could be pangolins, not snakes, Blair - bit.ly/pengolin-covid-19-missing-link
(25:35) - Certain health conditions up risks for severe COVID-19, Dr. Kiki - https://bit.ly/health-condition-risks-for-covid-19-1
(26:44) - Why the US might ask people to wear face masks to fight coronavirus - https://bit.ly/health-condition-risks-for-covid-19-2

(33:01) - Machine translation of cortical activity to text with an encoder–decoder framework, Dr. Kiki - https://go.nature.com/2R25eNd
See also - Neural implants plus AI turn sentence-length thoughts to text - https://bit.ly/neural-ai-implants-thoughts-to-text
(36:41) - Traces of ancient rainforest in Antarctica point to a warmer prehistoric world, Justin - https://bit.ly/traces-of-rainforest-in-antarctica

(46:14) - Blair’s Animal Corner
(46:24) - Blair’s Animal Corner Theme
(46:46) - Stanford researcher investigates how squid communicate in the dark, Blair - https://bit.ly/squid-communication-in-the-dark
(54:58) - Optimized by Evolution, Ants Don't Have Traffic Jams, Blair - https://bit.ly/ants-have-no-traffic-jams

(1:04:42) - And we're at the break!

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(1:05:20) - Back from the break!

(1:05:26) - On Mars or Earth, biohybrid can turn CO2 into new products, Dr. Kiki - https://bit.ly/biohybrid-co2-into-new-products
(1:10:56) - Florida’s Ancient Calusa Kingdom Was Powered by Ingenious Fish Corrals, Justin - https://bit.ly/calusa-kingdom-fish-corrals
(1:15:56) - Transient non-integrative expression of nuclear reprogramming factors promotes multifaceted amelioration of aging in human cells, Dr. Kiki - https://go.nature.com/2X0RXbt
(1:25:20) - Study finds fish have diverse, distinct gut microbiomes, Justin - https://bit.ly/diverse-fish-microbiome

Quick Science Bytes! —

(1:28:54) - Where in the Brain Does Creativity Come from? Evidence from Jazz Musicians, Kiki - https://bit.ly/creativity-in-the-brain-and-jazz
(1:37:46) - Ninjabot strikes with force of a mantis shrimp, Blair - https://bit.ly/ninjabot-and-mantis-shrimp

(1:46:59) - Show wrap up.

(1:47:29) - Thank you’s to our Patreon Sponsors

(1:49:24) - Our own Blair Bazdarich was a guest on another podcast, "Jesse & Wilder's Guide To Life," check it out! https://apple.co/2yuNBiJ

(1:50:21) - NEXT WEEK! - An interview with Vanessa Hill - From the YouTube Show "BrainCast"

(1:52:11) - End Theme

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

(1:55:45) - The After Show - Hit the button at the wrong time in the middle of the song — that was funny! We're in the post show. Yes, Blair had a wonderful time on Jesse & Wilder's Guide To Life podcast — they were the best audience, they were AMAZED by every animal fact Blair threw at them (were they STONED??). Justin ponders if we have become desensitized? And much, much more...