This Week in Science - The Kickass Science Podcast

This Week in Science - May 13, 2008 Broadcast

Kirsten Sanford — Wed, 14 May 2008 02:07:17 +0000

Yay! Justin’s Back, Figuring Out the Platypus, Engineering Babies, Fat Truth, Memristors Rock, Fold It!, Antibiotic Fer Brains, Psycho-Babble, Mercury’s Core, Missing Matter, Bacteria Learn, and We’re Gonna Be At BayCon 2008!

This Week in Science - May 06, 2008 Broadcast

Kirsten Sanford — Wed, 07 May 2008 03:19:12 +0000

Kirsten’s on her own!, Interview with Dr. Gary Marcus, author of Kluge, and The Weird From Washington with Dr. Michael Stebbins, plus a brief rundown of science headlines.

This Week in Science - April 29, 2008 Broadcast

Kirsten Sanford — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:06:47 +0000

Insect Cellulo-phones, Human Isolation, T. Chicken, Lizard Speciation, Abstract Math, This Week in World Robot Domination, and Interview with Science Writer, George Johnson, about “The 10 Most Beautiful Experiments”.

This Week in Science - April 22, 2008 Broadcast

Kirsten Sanford — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:26:16 +0000

It’s Fundraiser Week at KDVS. Donate! Listen! Enjoy Science!

This Week in Science - April 15, 2008 Broadcast

Kirsten Sanford — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:03:45 +0000

Who’s That Co-Host?!?, This Week in World Robot Domination, Scientist Drugs, Co-Ed Classrooms, Mind Memory Slots, Black Hole Activation, and Super Scopes.

This Week in Science - April 08, 2008 Broadcast

Kirsten Sanford — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:25:45 +0000

Lungless Frogs, Mammoth Deaths, Poopy DNA, Non-Automotive Hybrids, Old Yoga, Hungry Milky Way, Finding Higgs, The Weird From Washington, Quakin’ Laptops, Danger-nastics, 5th Graders Are Smart.

This Week in Science - April 01, 2008 Broadcast

Kirsten Sanford — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:36:27 +0000

Plastic Oceans, Love You Long Time?, Stopping the Collider, Birthing Genes, Moon Blocks, Headlines!!!, and Interview w/ Scott Sigler, Infected Author of Infected.

This Week in Science - March 25, 2008 Broadcast

Kirsten Sanford — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:03:29 +0000

Lemur Fingers, The Fastest Dinosaur, The Ant Farm, Farming Algae, Sperm News, This Week in World, Robot Domination, BigDog Revisited, The Weird From Washington, Women Want, and Space Tid-Bits.

This Week in Science - March 18, 2008 Broadcast

Kirsten Sanford — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:22:19 +0000

Island Cretins, New Blood, Aussie Bashing Banned, Rugged Face of Mars, Squirrel Stress, World Robot Domination, Bird News, Fungus Sex, Great Symbiosis Batman, Cleanin’ up Nuclear, and a Planetary Breath.

This Week in Science - March 11, 2008 Broadcast

Kirsten Sanford — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:30:35 +0000

Technology Saves TWIS, Death Ahead!, More Hobbit Controversy, Whiskey Cleaners, Swimming in the Sea, Media and Racism, Hybrid Hubbub, Where You At Krill?, Nuke Cleanup, Got Plutonium?, Stoney Bacteria, RNA-na-nana-na-na-nanaaa, Aging Views, TWiWRD

This Week in Science - March 04, 2008 Broadcast

Kirsten Sanford — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:38:04 +0000

Literal Eye-Tooth, Genetic Jimmy-Hat, TWIStributors!, TWIWorld Robot Domination, Darwin Was Wrong?!?, Human Descent, Octopus?, The Truth About Boys And Girls, and Interview w/ Absinthe Expert, Ted Breaux. Thanks to FutureGen for the transcript. (continued) Justin: Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! The following hour of programming does not necessarily represent the views or opinions at the University of California, Davis KDVS [...]

This Week in Science - February 26, 2008 Broadcast

Kirsten Sanford — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:38:52 +0000

Drugs For Animals, Stemming Diabetes, Electrons On Film, Invisi-Rings, Viking Fashion, and The Weird From Washington w/ Dr. Mike Stebbins

This Week in Science - February 19, 2008 Broadcast

Kirsten Sanford — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:39:37 +0000

Missing Link, Comparatively Dung-like, TOPP Science, Spit Cancer, Devil Frog!, Massive Meat-eaters, Addressing Concerns, Baby Black Hole, Nano-Intelligence, Fighting Infection

This Week in Science - February 11, 2008 Broadcast

Kirsten Sanford — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:23:49 +0000

Is It Love?, Hot Or Not, Barnacles Rock, Social Monitors, Rapunzel et al, Predicting the Pres, Coffee Sniffer, The Weird From Washington, Start Eating Purple!

This Week in Science - February 5, 2008 Broadcast

Kirsten Sanford — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:33:47 +0000

Kirsten Moves, No More Tears, Bacteria Pop, All Ears, Chirping Tale, Papal Proclamation, Problem With Semen, Cloning Tricycle, Making DNA, Creation “Science”, Baby Bathing Badness, Children and Medicine, T-Ray Pictures

This Week in Science - January 29, 2008 Broadcast

Kirsten Sanford — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:08:56 +0000

Paper Airplanes From Space, Attack of the Clones, Bloody Switcheroo, Crater Pondering, Great Space Super-Collider, This Week in the End of the World, Listen To Your Kids, DNA Mystery, and The Weird From Washington With Dr. Michael Stebbins.

This Week in Science - January 22, 2008 Broadcast

Kirsten Sanford — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:51:26 +0000

Genes For Lupus, Only The Lonely, TWin Parasites, Old Becomes New, Superhuman Sight, They Fear Us, Eat It Up Yum, Skull For sale, TWin World Robot Domination.

This Week in Science - January 15, 2008 Broadcast

Kirsten Sanford — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:43:40 +0000

Agression = Sex?, Genetics of Disease, Do You Hear What I Hear?, Superconducting Silicon, Fruit Fly Glow, World Robot Domination, The Weird From Washing ton, TWIStribution, Giant Earths and more…

This Week in Science - January 08, 2008 Broadcast

Kirsten Sanford — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:50:42 +0000

Happy New Year! As 2007 leaves us, we reminisce about the past year with our Top 11 Science Stories of 2007. Also, we review last year’s predictions, and make new ones for 2008.

This Week in Science - December 25, 2007 Broadcast

Kirsten Sanford — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:33:49 +0000

Merry TWISmas one and all!, Mars Attacked, Mars Alive?, Tracking Santa, Baby Newton, Animal Antics, Whale Tale, MUSIC!!!, World Robot Domination - Power, Tonedeaf Brains, Birds Who Sing Together, More Whales, Animal Discoveries, Stem Cells Arise!

This Week in Science - December 18, 2007 Broadcast

Kirsten Sanford — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:55:02 +0000

Samurai Mouse, Environmental Willpower, Australia v. Japan, Smokin the Mean Bud?, Now Featuring Magma, Brain Dynamo, Sleepy Storage, The Weird from Washington, and TWiStributor Time

This Week in Science - December 11, 2007 Broadcast

Kirsten Sanford — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:30:13 +0000

Justin Gets Sick and Quits, Triclocarban and Testosterone, Belief is in the Brain, Mooning Over Saturn, Rest Up, Genetic Bi-Sexuality, & Interview w/ Chris Impey re: Astrobiology

This Week in Science - December 04, 2007

Kirsten Sanford — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:40:05 +0000

Battle of the Brains, Just Like Gorillas, Dakota Duck, Doggie Smarts, Honey Help, Forest Frass, More Foreskin Ranting, Hot Air Injection, Sperm Power, Tree Climbing, Lively Titan?

This Week in Science - November 27, 2007 Broadcast

Kirsten Sanford — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:48:49 +0000

Turkey Coma Lies!, Piggybacking on Physics, Pacific Invasion, Chinese Lunarganda, Indigenipeoplification, Perceptual Mismatch, Neural Guide Gene, and Interview w/ NASA scientists Drs. Claire L. Parkinson and Michael King

This Week in Science - November 20, 2007 Broadcast

Kirsten Sanford — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:03:11 +0000

Thanksgiving Thanks, This Week in the End of the World, Climatia All Around, Whatchya Gonna Do Bout it?, Is an Air Sac a Lung?, Reproductive Girls, Surfing the Light Fantastic, The Weird From Washington, Sugar Magnolia, Whale of a Japanese Tale, RoboMoth, and Trapping Rainbows

This Week in Science - November 13, 2007

Kirsten Sanford — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:26:15 +0000

Who Talks More?, Who’s Being Illogical?, Why’s Math Good?, Bring In the Brains, Saving Spinal Cords, Cosmic Inference, Robo-Humans?, and Interview w/ Dr. Don Prothero on Evolution. Buy our World Robot Domination t-shirts at www.twis.org.

This Week in Science - November 06, 2007

Kirsten Sanford — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:03:20 +0000

TWISclaimer!, Fuel Fight?, Chinese in Space, Sod It, Olympic Doping, Excercise Is Power, Pictures Made Real, This Week in World Robot Domination, The Weird From Washington, TWIStributors, Brainbow, and Little TWIS Bytes

This Week in Science - October 30, 2007 Broadcast

Kirsten Sanford — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:43:17 +0000

Justin Allen Poe and The Science Raven, Three-Eyed Frogs, Rat Brains, Neandertal Style, Dino Footprints, Plastic Bodies, Don’t Think About Not Thinking About It, & Interview w/ Ian Ayres, Author of Super Crunchers

This Week in Science - October 23, 2007 Broadcast

Kirsten Sanford — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:54:38 +0000

Kirsten’s at a Conference, Justin’s Worried About Bacteria, Robots Really Are Revolting, And Watson Has An Issue, Along With The Weird From Washington w/ Dr. Michael Stebbins.

This Week in Science - October 16, 2007 Broadcast

Kirsten Sanford — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:31:41 +0000

Supplementing Arsenic, Chocolate is in the blood, Sex and TWiWorld Robot Domination, Little Giants, New Old Big, Lap Dance Luck, Vitamin Bleb, Gas Eating Bacteria, Did You Hear?, Healthy CO, A Worm’s Life, Flava-flavonoids, Bad A** Plant, Sorry No Interview, But We Have New T-Shirts and CDs Available (Go to www.twis.org for details).