Channel: This Week in Science - The Kickass Science Podcast 


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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, and Justin, a wisecracking professional car salesman and armchair physicist. 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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Available Episodes (49)
Short Legs In A Single Step, A Bloody Mess, Screaming Moths, This Week in The End Of The World, Ancient Dungballs Tell Tales, A Catastrophic Reduction, and Interview w/ Physicist Jon...
Published: Tuesday, 21 July 2009 19:08:13
Duration: 64:30
Size: 29.57 MB
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Skinny Monkey, Bacterial Bloat, Flower Power, When Good Words Go Bad, World Robot Domination, Bad Words Done Good, and Interview w/ Chris Mooney, author of Unscientific America.
Published: Tuesday, 14 July 2009 19:04:31
Duration: 64:05
Size: 29.38 MB
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Special Evolutionary Episode! The Debate Rages Between Justin and Kirsten (Or, Was It Lamarck and Darwin?), Refereed By Dr. Tim Coulson and His Shrinking Sheep
Published: Tuesday, 07 July 2009 23:09:20
Duration: 59:37
Size: 27.33 MB
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Diggn Physics via Twitter, Dino Skinny, Bird Brain Insights, Fish Freakouts!, Tunguska Shuttle Hugs, Building Better Melons, Minion Mailbag, and The Question of the Month!
Published: Tuesday, 30 June 2009 22:05:07
Duration: 60:07
Size: 27.57 MB
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The World Is Smarter Than You, Plant Awareness, Compete For Brains, Bacterial Brilliance, Lazy Eye Games, Supercomputing Sunspots, Brain Tools, Toxic Birds, Where is My Schizophrenia? ...
Published: Tuesday, 23 June 2009 18:20:34
Duration: 60:33
Size: 27.76 MB
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Bisphenol Everywhere, Toxo Crashes Cars, Beware of Robo-Ferret, RoboGames Redux, Adventures in Popularity, Move Over Silicon!, Go Fly A Kite, TWIS Bits, and Interview w/ Dr. Greg Gibson...
Published: Tuesday, 16 June 2009 23:30:41
Duration: 60:27
Size: 27.71 MB
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A Dirty Galactic Secret, Hippocratic Hypocrisy, Your Laughing Ape, People Underwater, Batty Buddy Beacons, and Interview w/ Douglas Richards, author of the Prometheus Project books. ...
Published: Wednesday, 10 June 2009 02:41:46
Duration: 57:36
Size: 26.41 MB
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Waving At Memories, Justin Had Some Marijuana, Glowing Monkeys Batman!, Rhinos In The Dark, Intergalactic Planet Hunters Score, Falsifying Research, This Week In The Future, Neanderthal...
Published: Wednesday, 03 June 2009 01:10:39
Duration: 64:19
Size: 29.48 MB
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Tiny Fossil Circus, Bird On Birds, Life With Asteroids, Sex In Your Head, Sleepy Heads, and Interview w/ Sherry Seethaler on Lies, Damned Lies And Science.
Published: Tuesday, 26 May 2009 23:57:54
Duration: 58:40
Size: 26.89 MB
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This Week in the End of the World, Sneaky Scientific Publishing, Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes, Bad Little Bacteria, Gecko Eyesight, Nano Blinkys, Mercury and Messenger, Minion Mailbag, 2012 Predictions,...
Published: Wednesday, 13 May 2009 22:24:05
Duration: 59:26
Size: 27.24 MB
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Remote Control Brains, Making Blood Crawl, Birdsong Basics, This Week in Science History, Drink To Your Sanity, and an Interview with Dr. Leonard Mlodinow re: The Drunkards Walk.
Published: Wednesday, 06 May 2009 19:38:06
Duration: 61:47
Size: 28.31 MB
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Swiney Flu, Obama-Sizing Science, Free the Stem Cells, Parasites And You, Asteroid On Trial, and Interview w/ Dr. Michio Kaku.
Published: Tuesday, 28 April 2009 22:59:24
Duration: 62:00
Size: 28.42 MB
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KDVS Fundraiser!, PCBs and Babies, Fundraiser, Reduction to the Ridiculous, Fundraiser, Procedures of Sentences, Fundraiser, Antarctic Icy Life, Fundraiser, and Interview w/ Dr. Charles...
Published: Wednesday, 22 April 2009 06:15:42
Duration: 64:10
Size: 29.41 MB
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When Good Schools Go Bad, Eggs For Mice, Dinner Date Tips, Life Aound The Universe, Babies First Dream, Hobbitses, Comparative Math For Minors, Cure For Cloudy Vision
Published: Wednesday, 15 April 2009 19:32:15
Duration: 65:59
Size: 30.24 MB
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World Robot Domination, Arteries, Veins, Hearts, Nerves, Bone, Viruses, Batteries, And A Little Outer Space.
Published: Tuesday, 07 April 2009 21:13:06
Duration: 56:28
Size: 25.88 MB
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Hells Bells Its Stem Cells, Video Games For Vision, Black Hole Stories, Justins Squishy Balls, Playing Asteroids, Tuberculosis NADs, Evolution Rants, Daddies and Birds, Carnivorous
Published: Wednesday, 01 April 2009 20:32:43
Duration: 62:19
Size: 28.56 MB
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Brains, brains, brains!, Cold Fusion, Bad For Baby, Kiki needs to drink less, and lots more!
Published: Wednesday, 25 March 2009 15:31:52
Duration: 60:23
Size: 27.68 MB
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Potential Purposes of Prions, Snakes In Greenland, Insect Memory, Science Pop-Quiz, Catching The Higgs, Geocentrism and Global Warming, Robots on the Catwalk, Dark Matters, and the
Published: Tuesday, 17 March 2009 23:39:45
Duration: 59:23
Size: 27.22 MB
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Chickosaurus!, Horsing Around, The Moon Rules, Religious Brains, Cells and Ladders, Asteroids, Moonlets, and Holes, Oh, My!, Optimism, Naptime, and Avoiding Old Age, and The Question...
Published: Wednesday, 11 March 2009 17:31:24
Duration: 60:27
Size: 27.71 MB
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Stem Cell Stories, First Cats Now Dogs, Dirty Bombs and Old Bottles, X-ray Super Veggies, This Week in Dead People, and Justin Wants To Be A Pregnant Vegan.
Published: Wednesday, 04 March 2009 06:32:40
Duration: 61:24
Size: 28.14 MB
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How To Say Kiki, Decade of Data, This Week in The End of The World, Fighting The Good Fight, Lots of Health, Saving Humanity, and a Competition For God
Published: Wednesday, 25 February 2009 21:33:42
Duration: 61:05
Size: 27.99 MB
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Searching Synthetically, Teach the Children, Neander Clear-Up, Weakest Winners, Oceanic Melting Pot, The End of the World, Tattoos and Health Tips, Space Age Break-Up, and the Question...
Published: Tuesday, 17 February 2009 23:47:11
Duration: 60:46
Size: 27.85 MB
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LHC News!, Valentines Day Warnings, Dont Feed the Fish, Giant Pythons, Malignant Marijuana, This Week in the End of Florida, Dog/Wolf Love, and Interview w/ Dr. Sean B. Carroll re:
Published: Wednesday, 11 February 2009 01:01:42
Duration: 59:28
Size: 27.26 MB
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One-Sided Magnets, Ballsy Mice, Algae Genes, Blowing Hard, Cosmic Extremes, Froggy Discoveries, and the Minion Mailbag.
Published: Wednesday, 04 February 2009 02:24:51
Duration: 59:08
Size: 27.1 MB
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The End of the World, This Week in Evolution, Why Being an Astronaught Isnt So Hip,Police and Non Lethal Weapons Dont Mix, Recess Makes You Smarter, and Interview on Autism w/ Dr. Simon...
Published: Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:42:04
Duration: 68:43
Size: 31.49 MB
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Martian Gassyness, Our Hologram Universe, Hydras to the Rescue, Female Strength, TWIS Mailbag, and More!
Published: Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:24:12
Duration: 59:43
Size: 27.37 MB
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Transmission Dismission, Chemical Replication, Defrosting Beef, Little Girl is Back!, My How the Fruit Flies, Mossie Love Songs, This Week in Science History, and Headline Round-up. ...
Published: Wednesday, 14 January 2009 21:21:15
Duration: 33:45
Size: 15.49 MB
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Tiny Eyes, Roving Mars, Feeling Secure, Vitamin Hopes, Alcoholic Assays, and an Interview w/ Scott Sigler re: Contagious.
Published: Wednesday, 07 January 2009 18:14:39
Duration: 57:05
Size: 26.16 MB
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Bye-bye 2008! Science and Celebrities, Predictions for 2009, Mars Alive, Bacteria Support Groups, Bird Songsters, Favoring Orangutans, and TWIS Question of the Month! Hello 2009! Happy...
Published: Tuesday, 30 December 2008 23:51:43
Duration: 60:25
Size: 27.69 MB
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The Top 11 Science Stories of 2008 Merry TWIS-mas!!!
Published: Wednesday, 24 December 2008 21:54:43
Duration: 61:31
Size: 28.19 MB
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Science in the White House!, Jellyfish Rule, Brain Reading, This Week in the End of the World, Penile Precautions, and This Week in World Robot Domination Interview with David Calikins ...
Published: Tuesday, 16 December 2008 23:10:10
Duration: 58:53
Size: 26.99 MB
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Sperm Dont Lie, We Will Remember, Fishy Waterways, Historical Starlight, Super-Tough Mother, Secrets of a Killer, and Much More!
Published: Wednesday, 10 December 2008 06:07:11
Duration: 58:34
Size: 23.49 MB
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Genetic Questions, Fungal Frolics, Turtle Soup, Fighting Fat, Driving Me Crazy, TWiWorld Robot Domination, Behavior Issues, and TWiThe End of the World.
Published: Wednesday, 03 December 2008 04:04:19
Duration: 56:39
Size: 25.97 MB
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Miracles Discussed, Flies Gone Wild, Mammoth Operations, To the Birds, Sweet Space, Planetary Discovery, Madness, Genetic Explanations, and Learning to Speak.
Published: Tuesday, 25 November 2008 19:56:19
Duration: 54:13
Size: 24.86 MB
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Climate Change Denial, Microbes in the Sea, Microbes in your Gut, The Weird From Washington, TV Sadness, Bleach Works, Wide-Hipped Women, Anti-Matter Xplosion, and Rocky CO2.
Published: Wednesday, 19 November 2008 20:17:37
Duration: 58:43
Size: 26.91 MB
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Cooties, City Ants And Traffic, Bacterial Brilliance, Memory Storage, Half A Bird Brain, Diamonds From tequila, Robot Domination of Sorts, and Dark Matters.
Published: Tuesday, 11 November 2008 23:37:36
Duration: 58:42
Size: 26.9 MB
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Its Election Day! Vote For Science!, Tunnel To The Sun, Antimatter in Outer Space, Find of Fungal Nature, Water on Mars, Electricity on Titan, An Ancient iceman, AND the Weird From
Published: Tuesday, 04 November 2008 19:53:08
Duration: 55:50
Size: 25.59 MB
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Flax Oil No-No, Martian Methane, MacGyver Rays, Gamma Waves For Kids, Self-Tazering, Everyday Is Halloween, and Interview With Ben Crockett From BirdPost.com
Published: Wednesday, 29 October 2008 19:42:30
Duration: 60:27
Size: 27.7 MB
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Monkey Brains, Human Brains, Hubble, Migrating Dead Peeps, Nutritional Conspiracies Abound, and the Weird From Washington With Dr. Michael Stebbins.
Published: Tuesday, 21 October 2008 23:06:51
Duration: 57:57
Size: 26.56 MB
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Space the Final Frontier, Nobel and Ignobel Prizes, Intelligent Machines, Jesus Sharks, Short Term Memory Loss, Why Justins Working On His Pecs, Warning For Bald Men, Girls Gone Math,...
Published: Tuesday, 14 October 2008 22:25:56
Duration: 57:57
Size: 26.56 MB
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Justin Takes a Handout, This Week in the End of the World, Say No To Pets, Cosmic Soap Bubble, This Week in World Robot Domination, Fans For SIDS, Blood For Downs, and The Weird From...
Published: Tuesday, 07 October 2008 22:47:57
Duration: 63:09
Size: 28.94 MB
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Moon Dust, Stem Cells, Wrestling With Herpes, Flu News, Dino Lungs, This Week in Mars, and an interview w/four science festival organizers from around the globe.
Published: Wednesday, 01 October 2008 01:03:35
Duration: 60:41
Size: 27.81 MB
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The Best Darn Disclaimer Ever, Leaching Plastic Problems, GM Benefits, Spore Launching, Primordial Fish Finds, Beneficial Bacteria, This Week in The End of The World, The Baghdad Surge,...
Published: Wednesday, 24 September 2008 00:49:39
Duration: 64:02
Size: 29.34 MB
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LHC and Minion Kids, Dino Luck, Market Research, Paper Crumpling Complaint, Scary Bacteria, Boom! Gamma Rays, Sumpin Like Us, and Interview w/ Douglas Erwin author of Extinction.
Published: Wednesday, 17 September 2008 20:38:48
Duration: 58:57
Size: 27.02 MB
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This Week in the End of the World?, Body Obsession and Being Positive, Junk to Thumbs, Hello LHC!, Girls and Science, Bacteria and Rattlesnakes, Water Bears in Space, and Watchful Helicopters ...
Published: Tuesday, 09 September 2008 23:15:29
Duration: 59:13
Size: 27.14 MB
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windmill batting averages, cellular reprogramming, fly acrobatics, hairy ears, this week in the end of the world, and interview w/ Dr. P. Michael Conn and James V. Parker about animal...
Published: Tuesday, 02 September 2008 19:06:57
Duration: 59:16
Size: 27.16 MB
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Blood, Brains, and the Universe, TWIStributors Phone and File, Toxoplasma Gondii (Oh No!), Horny Beetles, and Artificial Enhancement Galore.
Published: Wednesday, 27 August 2008 00:46:22
Duration: 59:40
Size: 27.34 MB
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Bike Seats For Men, Man-made Photosynthesis, Nanotubes or The Hulk?, Dr. Video-Master, This Week in the End of the World, Beer Goggled, and an interview w/ Dr. Sean Carroll about the...
Published: Tuesday, 19 August 2008 19:13:28
Duration: 61:03
Size: 27.98 MB
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PomPom Danger, LHC FTW!, Mamas Sick, Invisbility redux, Size Does Matter, Winning Plays, The Weird From Washington, Australia Bashing, News You Can Use, Chicken Feather Walls, and Much...
Published: Tuesday, 12 August 2008 19:07:12
Duration: 57:22
Size: 26.29 MB
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