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This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast

Dr. Kirsten Sanford Science Media

The kickass weekly science and technology radio show presenting a humorous and irreverent look at the week in science and tech. Each show TWIS discusses the latest in cutting edge science news on topics such as genetic engineering, cybernetics, space exploration, neuro science, and a show favorite Countdown to World Robot Domination. The show is hosted by Dr. Kirsten Sanford, a PhD in neuroscience, Justin Jackson, a wisecracking professional car salesman and armchair physicist, and Blair Bazdarich,

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01:41:59

What's Your Science Superpower?

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2023/03/03

This Week: Brain Computers, Ancient Platypus, Sea Monsters, Walmart Insect, Neand, Hauling Logs, Octopus Brains, Insect Urination, Lemur Dads, Ice Age Survivor, Oldest Human DNA, Brainy Preferences, Hearty Emotions, And Much More Superpower Science!

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01:42:11

Welcome to the Science Carnival!

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2023/02/23

This Week: Innermost Core, Four-day work-week, Sir David Attenborough, JWST, Da Vinci, Sharkless Vaccines?, Naked Mole Rats, Monkees, Sleeping Students, Medieval Cranial Surgery, Heart Prints, Brain Repair, And Much More Science!

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01:41:19

What's going on up there?

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2023/02/16

This Week: Mushrooms, Snakes, Solar Panels, GLOFs, Sheep, Cockatoos, Stone tools, Planet 9, Mouse Contraception, And Much More Science!

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01:50:40

Science, Fungi, & Keanu Reeves

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2023/02/09

This Week: Fossils, Baths, Sclera, Drug ads, Baby guts, Keanu Reeves, Wrasse, Bugs, Neanderthals, Brainy trademarks, Brain action, And Much More Science!

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01:50:58

Will the Dodo Fly?

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2023/02/03

This Week: Maps, Black Bears, Bigfoot, Asteroid Asymmetry, Squids, Fungus, Vaccines, Dodo Birds, Fly Sperm, Hydrogen, Neander Skulls, Drinking & IVF, And Much More Science!

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01:41:55

TWIS 25 01 2022

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2023/01/27

This Week: Earth's Core, The next Pandemic, Screen time bad, outside good, Old Asteroids, Music and stress, Artic Primates, Sea Spiders, Talking chimp, Knowing Dogs, T.gondii, Just Bad News, Antidepressants, Emotional Blunting, The Terminator, And Much More Science!

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01:45:40

Laser-Guided Lightning, Very, Very Frightening!

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2023/01/20

This Week: Predicting Solar Flares, Laser-guided lightning, Toddlers & Dogs, Bird Vagrants, Concrete, Phantom Credits, Tree Tossing, Echidna, Stem Cells, Rebooting Age, And Much More Science!

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01:52:08

2023 Science Predictions!

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2023/01/12

This Week: Predictions from 2022, Predictions for 2023, Schrödinger's Tardigrade, Fishmobile, Hostile Earth, Amputee Advantage?, Baby Cry Recognition, Crow Tools, Bear Guts, No Matter Difference, And Much More Science!

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01:25:20

Happy New Year of Science!

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2023/01/06

This Week: Cancer Vaccine, Microplastic, Lucky Pigs, Wasps, Glass Frogs, Seeing Voices, Hairy Research, And Much More Science...

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01:45:23

Top 11 of 2022!

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2022/12/22

This Week: What does This Week in Science think were the year's top science stories? This end-of-year episode counts down the Top 11 science news stories of 2022, and much more science...

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02:20:16

Welcome To The Science Monkey House

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2022/12/16

This Week: Fusion, Jaguars, Cell Control, Cancer Cures, Chaperone Proteins, Microplastics, Snakes, Migrators, Just Good News, Slime Mold, The 6th Sense, Microbial Motivation, And Much More Science!

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01:39:16

How can you science your way out of a lying toddler?

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2022/12/08

This Week: Paleo Feud, DNA, Club Competition, ADHD, Lying Toddlers, Cold Noses, Lady Locust, Animal Sounds, Just Good News, Ancient Kid Crafts, Neuralink Concerns, And Much More Science!

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02:08:34

Does This Wormhole Go To Science Town?

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2022/12/02

This Week: Holographic Wormholes, Monkey see, human see chimp…?, Carbon Removal, Cannabis Contradiction, Cocaine, Death Metal, Wolf Pack Parasite, Singing Bats, Canadian Geese, Meteorite Minerals, Emperors, Octopuses, Bird Jaws, And Much More Science!

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01:44:58

Who's Thankful for Science?

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2022/11/26

This Week: Bat, Global Warming, Bird Weather, Floaters Vs Sinkers, Waste not, want not, Plant Memory, Baby Fish, Frogs, Chimps, Whales, Extinctions, Self-medicating Birds, Makeup, And Much More Science!

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01:27:36

Will Leprosy Save our Lives?

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2022/11/17

This Week: Vertebrate Gene Drive, Leprosy, Deaf Mosquitos, Artemis Launches!, Ancient Cooking, Nature, Nurture, or?, Termites, Ancient footprints, Just Good News, Hippocampal Connections, Psilocybin Activation, Brain Router, And Much More Science!

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36:18

Dr. Kiki Interviews Professor Matthew Cobb

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2022/11/14

Professor Matthew Cobb is a British zoologist and professor of zoology at the University of Manchester. He has written several popular science books, including his latest "AS GODS: A moral history of the genetic age", which comes out in print on November 15th.

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01:51:50

900 Weeks of Science!

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2022/11/10

This 900th Week: World Science Day, Greenland, Music, Fertilizer Fields, Plants, Cosmic Spin Cycle, Vaccine Hoarding, Vaccine Choice, Pigs, Fish, Octopuses, Ötzi, Canaanite Comb, Get Low, Get Some Sleep!, And Much More Science!

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01:47:17

Pick Your Nose or Snot?

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2022/11/03

This Week: Quantum Time, American Habitation, Pick it!, Don't Pick It?, Social Microbes?, Meta Molecules, Bees play!, Jays Wait!, Political Science, Just Good News?, Path To Vomit, Inventing Sonar, And Much More Science!

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01:53:20

It's TWISoween 2022!

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2022/10/27

This Week: It's TWISoween 2022!, MOND Evidence, UV for Better Plants, Atmospheric Electric Bees, Ancient Viruses, Gene Editing, Hybrid Viruses, INTERVIEW W/ Dr. Vivek Kumar, Endangered Birds, They speak!!, Ancient Britons, Tentacle Robot, Self-Suppression, And Much More Science!

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01:33:32

Are you a Mosquito Magnet?

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2022/10/20

This Week: Justin has some audio issues! Mosquito Magnets, Recipe for Disaster, Tuataras, Hidden Star Maps, Multicellular Bacteria, Ornithomimosaurs, Researchers Gone Wild?, COVID Brain Effects, Connection Destruction, Vaccinating Wild Animals, Social Spiders, Neanderthal Family Trees, Age of the Neanderhumanthals, Brain Whispers, And Much More Science!

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