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, a zoologist. Consistently voted one of the top science radio shows on the web - check it out and hear a science news program like no other.
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05 October, 2016 – Episode 587 – This Week in Science Podcast (TWIS)
An Interview w/ Volcanologists, 2016 Nobel Prizes, Bugs R’Us, Smart Bees, Buzzed Bees, Ancient Loot Tales, Politics Of Change, The Atlantic Conveyor, Zap And Tingle, Sideways Sharks, And Much More…
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Disclaimer disclaimer disclaimer…
It may be too late to reverse the trend…
The trend that has been tending to be trending is that of sending discourse to its death…
That great human tradition of talking about things…
That thing that began to be recorded with the Greeks…
That culminated in the founding of a free nation…
ish…
That which can be made stronger and better with knowledge
in the time of the greatest access to knowledge in all of human history…
Our ability to talk about issues and ideas and compare them to reality has never been better…
Yet, in some of the most important arenas…
it is being dumbed down…
Worse, it’s almost being ignored entirely in the media today…
And since the following hour of programming contains scientific news
We now fear that our show may not be suitable for adult audiences…
At least not for much longer…
For the trendency of dumbing down the public discourse
is so overwhelmingly powerful at this point,
It may truly be too late to prevent the actual and unavoidable
decline of civilization world wide…
On my signal, we run for the hills…
ready?
Or, perhaps this is an opportunity…
A chance to do the casually correct thing
To simply talk about the world as it is,