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(0:00) – Recording Start
(0:48) – Intro, Dr. Kiki
(1:15) – Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! – This week, done by Dr. Kiki!
(2:44) – Opening Theme Music, Dr. Kiki
(3:20) – Opening “Good Science!” Greetings – with Dr. Kiki & Blair (Justin is off for this week — he and his wife just had… A BABY! ️ CONGRATULATIONS! — he shall return!). Intros & Top Story Headlines.
(6:16) – Quick Science Bytes! —
(6:18) – The Webb space telescope made it to L2 – only 5 months until we get pictures!
(9:27) – Why is a SpaceX falcon booster rocket going to hit the moon?
(12:14) – Thanks to biological seasonality we know what month the dinosaurs died.
(18:28) – Ichthyosaurs went backwards. Evolutionarily speaking, of course.
(24:18) – Is a newly reported method going to set us on the path of limb regeneration?
(33:05) – 1200 meters below the seafloor reseachers found microbes not just existing, but running on high metabolisms. What is going on underground?
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(39:32) – TWIS COVID-19/Sars-CoV-2/Coronavirus Update –
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(39:39) – Are new Omicron variants concerning?
(41:48) – More specific COVID variant vaccines are in the Pfizer pipeline!
(46:30) – It looks like SARS-CoV2 variants can infect mice. Is this good or bad news?
(50:07) – What will come after Omicron?
(54:32) – And we’re at the break!
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(55:16) – And we’re back!
(55:19) – Blair’s Animal Corner
(55:42) – Blair’s Animal Corner Theme
(56:05) – How do hippos say hello?
(1:02:59) – Are female jaguars flirtatious?
(1:12:14) – More Science News with Dr. Kiki —
(1:12:17) – Can we give technology a taste for sweet?
(1:16:57) – Does the gut differentiate sugar from artificial sweeteners?
(1:24:37) – Show wrap-up — and we say congratulations again to Justin and his wife on their new born baby! Yay! Life always finds a way…
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(1:30:10) – End Theme
And that’s all, folks! Except, we still have…
(1:31:32) – The After Show! – Hey Yoooo! This is the part where Blair gets to sit. Dr. Kiki, like Elton John, is still standing, because her basement is COOOOOLDD!! (Brrr…!) No English-to-Jaguar dictionary, but Blair wants an English-to-Hippo dictionary. Dr. Kiki’s Nest Thermostat is betraying her. And much, much more…
