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This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast

Dr. Kiki Sanford

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,

science news commentary

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01:50:46

How to Save the Planet!

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2022/10/13

This Week: DART Success!, Doomed Nations, Wearable Insect Repellent, Toddler Teeth, Potato Pathogen, Robo Revolt, Eye Spots, Exotic Pet Trade, Fat Bear Week Winner, Magnetometers, Los Alamos, Neurons Play Pong, Rats Get Human, And Much More Science!

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01:56:44

Who Teaches You Science?

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2022/10/06

This Week: 2022 Nobel Prizes, Whale Shark Hunt, Scientists may rule themselves redundant via AI, Life Energy Origins, Dinosaur-killing asteroid, Fungal Cancers, Banana Beer, Safe Far LEDs, Chimps and Gorillas, Birds, It's Fat Bear Week!, California’s painted ladies, Svante Pääbo Nobel Prize, New Electrodes!, What Is Consciousness?, And Much More Science!

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02:02:48

This Week in Science of the Future!

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2022/09/29

This Week: NASA DART, Fluid Chromosomes, Coffee, Meds, Interview with Dr. Steven Novella RE: The Future, Fruit Flies, Whale Brains, Mercury Levels, Longer Social Life, Just Good News, Transgenerational Epigenetics, Get Outside, And Much More Science!

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01:45:33

Falling in love with Science

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2022/09/23

This Week: IgNobel, Anxiety, Blue light, NASA News, Ants, Frogs & Mosquitos, Octopuses, Woodlice, Ancient Opium, Microbial Name Calling, Alzheimer's, Moss, And Much More Science!

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02:00:35

It's Time for Science Potty Talk

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2022/09/15

This Week: Vomit, Poop, Cells, Crying Babies, General Relativity, Cryptococcus Neoformans, Interview with Bryn Nelson RE: Poop!, Cockatoos VS Humans, Camouflage, Mimicking Exercise, Virtual Reality, And Much More Science!

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01:54:00

What Is The Rain Shadow Effect?

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2022/09/08

This Week: Patience, Galling Wasps, Albatross, Human Pollution, Stock Markets and Cannabis, Concussion Skull, Drumming Chimpanzees, Rain Shadow Effect, Plastic Pollution, Gut-Brain Circuits, Axolotl Brains, Seasonal Plasticity, And Much More Science!

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01:40:14

How to Make an Embryo

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2022/09/01

This Week: Synthetic Embryos, Zombie Ice, Digital Self-Harm, Rearranging Evolution, Siberia Warming, Slime Time, Beetles with Pockets, Dolphins, Oxygen on Mars, Micro Break, Pattern Finding, Chronic Pain & Cancer, And Much More Science!

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01:51:31

How Big Could Lizards Get?

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2022/08/26

This Week: A Water World, Good news!, Color Blindness, Climate News, Drought, Schizophrenia & COVID, Long Covid, COVID Incubation, Pesticides, Super Frogs, Bipedal Old Times, Artificial Detection, Zapping Brains, Mouse Memory, And Much More Science!

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32:05

Interview - Dr. Kiki Interviews Dr. Moiya McTier

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2022/08/22

Dr. Moiya McTier has a degree in astronomy, mythology, a Ph.D. in astrophysics from Columbia University, and she is also a folklorist and science communicator. Listen in as She and Dr. Kiki discuss her latest book The Milky Way.

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02:02:59

Will We Return to The Moon?

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2022/08/19

This Week: Artemis, Curing, Sleepy Flies, Sponge Sneezes, Synthetic Circuits, Ancient Genes, Styrofoam Upcycling?, Long COVID, CDC Restructuring, Cannibalism, Social Connections, Misophonia, Sugar, Consciousness Solved??? And Much More Science!

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01:40:32

Vlogs, Dogs, or Science?

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2022/08/16

This Week: Linking Gut to Heart, PFAS, Locusts, Restoring Hearing, Hold the Ice, Food Impacts, One Antibody to Rule Them All, Spiders Sleep, Sterile Mice, Rewilding the West, Montana Bison, Animal Aging, Sleepy Brains, And Much More Science!

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01:32:13

None of This is Right, But Science

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2022/08/05

This Week: Dead Pig Society, Oldest evidence of people in North America, Spider silk, Embryo Progress, CBD for anxiety, Biological Electricity, Shrimpy cement, Whale eyes, Bumblebees, Global Warming, Dolphin Memory, Neanderthal Brains, And Much More Science!

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01:47:24

How Do AIs See The Universe?

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2022/07/28

This Week: Alternate Physics?, HIV, Necrobotics, RNA Zip Codes, Wildfires, Death By Lactose, Wildlife Photography, COVID Update, Monkeypox Emergency, Placenta, Nasa core mission on Mars, Victory Memo, Ant Networks, AI Analogies, And Much More Science!

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01:56:52

How to moonwalk

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2022/07/21

This Week: NASA Webb Results, Helpful Gonorrhea, Instruments and covid, Big Dino Era, Hot blooded ear wax, Sun & Satiety, Frozen rat livers, Vaccine's and menstruation patterns, Headbanging woodpeckers, Bean moms, Four-legged Fish, Red Deer Cave DNA, Volcanic Dark Matter, Emotional Memories, Imagination Language, And Much More!

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01:22:03

JWSTOMG!

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2022/07/14

This Week: JWST, Gamer brains, Bee Waggle Dances, The anti-science brain, Sarlacc, Ancient Europeans, Foxes, Lice, Dinosaurs, Webbs, And Much More!

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01:25:49

Smells Like Fresh Science!

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2022/06/30

This Week: Arms and Karaoke skills, Friends of a Feather, Water, Plants, Wet Wood, Buggy Bite Strength, Go Dig a Well, Ancient Hominins, Missing Microbiomes, And Much More

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01:44:11

What is Crawling on Your Face?

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2022/06/23

This Week: Charon's Red Cap, Pee farming, Tea, Almost Meat, One-legged longevity, Eat Plants Locally, It's time to talk about face mites, Frogs, Bats, Ancient pre-Brexit England, Cancer killing plants, Breathy Identity, Touching Itch, And Much More!

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01:47:59

How to see the Galaxy

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2022/06/16

This Week: GAIA Data, Sample Return, Planetary systems, Wigs, Tired Plants, Human echolocation, Baby Brains, 1000 genes, Baby Whales, Seals, Baby Compass, Hot Heads, Sleepy Anger, And Much More!

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01:44:17

Oceans of Science on Ocean Day

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2022/06/09

This Week: Cancer Remission, We're in the bad place, Noise pollution, Marsbucha, Rock on!!!, Zinc Poles, Ladies, always ask about your birth control, Ugly fish, Kelp, Otters, Conservatives die sooner, Welfare, Metabolites, Fungal Vision, Fungeyes, No Pole Swap?, And Much More!

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01:43:56

How to Make a Big ole Science Omelet!

This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast ·

2022/06/02

This Week: Techie Liver Transplant, Axolotl model, Polar Bear Poop, Electric Evolution, Eggstinction event, Big Plant, COVID Impacts, Aerosols & Exercise, Baboon bros before baboon ladies, Spider Dances, Ancient Underwater Cities, Ancient Overgrown Cities, Exercise Matters, Antibiotic Athletes, And Much More!

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