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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11 January, 2017 – Episode 601 – This Week in Science Podcast (TWIS)
New Life!, Spider Silk Spinning, Retro Virus Age, Avian Relations, Suburban Bird Divorce, Mouse Vision, Baboon Vowels, Glial Age, The Appendix, Predictions In Spaaaace!, Pitty Orchids, Superhero Side-effects, And Much More…
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A funny thing happened on the way to modern world…
Evolution.
We are the result of evolution…
It is the process of life that led up to the natural world.
But Evolution is not just a thing that happened…
And it is not just the process of natural things…
Evolution is taking place in the modern world as well…
Evolution is everywhere in our societies, cultures and economies…
Evolution plays out in our technology, art, and engineering…
Evolution is the process of trial and error
The process of learning and remembering…
Evolution is life, in all its endeavors…
And science is at once the study of evolution…
And the act of evolving…
The current state of our evolution depends more on science, than it does on natural selection…
Yet natural selection is the prototype that science was built on…
Make no mistake, we are evolving right now, and faster than ever before…
And nowhere else is the act of evolving now talked about more than right here on…
This Week in Science
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New Life!
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