Twitter: @TWIScience • @drkiki • @Jacksonfly • @blairsmenagerie
Site: www.twis.org
50 episodes
2022 to present
Average episode: 106 minutes
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Categories: News-Style • Three+ Hosts
Podcaster's summary: 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.
| Episodes |
| 2023-Nov-30 • 120 minutes Under the Beaver Moon What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Climate Action, Surprising Cloacal Kiss, Cysts In The Snow, Angry Lady Flies, Aging Lady Chimps, Panama Protests, WHOA-Man, Bonobos, Neuronal WiFi, Bacterial Overlords, |
| 2023-Nov-17 • 119 minutes Should Science Monkey Around? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Interview W/Natalia Reagan, Glowing Monkeys, Editing Cholesterol, Seawater Soup, Sperm Sorrow, Ovarian Teeth, Social Sickness, Sober Thoughts, Science Questions, And Much More! Become a Patron! |
| 2023-Nov-10 • 77 minutes What's the Cosmic Log on Science? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Engineered Yeast, Satellite Viruses, No Body Just Head, Rhombot, Humans vs. Robots, Cosmic Interview W/Alan Boyle, Cat Evolution, Cat Stink, Aging & Cat Poo, Science Questions, And Much More! |
| 2023-Oct-27 • 123 minutes Do Roosters Even Know Themselves? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: LIGO, Mummies, Language & AI, Policing, Pigs, Roosters, Birds Aren’t Real, Fuzzy Stems, Prehistoric Gender Roles, Zoomies, Memory Codes, And Much More! Become a Patron! |
| 2023-Oct-19 • 114 minutes Are Snoozers Losers? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Mapping The Universe, Snoozers aren’t losers, Bacteria Plus CAR-T, French painting, Theory Of Everything, Long arm of the lawn, Antacids and dementia, Brain Cell Atlas, Healin Strokes, |
| 2023-Oct-13 • 103 minutes What's in Your Head, Zombie? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Bennu Sample Surprise!, Cyber Hands Success, Heads Or Tails, Global Warming & Beer, Sourdough Starts, Going Off Course, Peregrine Prey Peril, Smoking, Female Frogs, Smelling Colors, |
| 2023-Oct-06 • 129 minutes Science Is Always Nobel What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Nobel Prize Time, Stonehenge!, New Organelle?, New Organelle?, Snow Flies, Purring Pads, Fluorescent Animals, Math Bedtime Stories, Murder Rate at Oxford, Mushroom Microdosing, Mistaken Memories, |
| 2023-Sep-29 • 120 minutes Don't Be Afraid to Ask Stupid Questions! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: IgNobel Prize Winners!, Scams, Fresh Water, Physical Life of Cells, Old Wooden Structures, Weed, Worm Emotions, Loss Brain, Baby Learning, And Many More Questions! Become a Patron! |
| 2023-Sep-22 • 106 minutes You SHOULD Be Skeptical of This Show! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Justin’s audio isn’t great, Interview with Brian Dunning, UFOs, Biosignatures, UAP, NASA, Hominins, Research Behavior, Crash Propensity, Time Travel, End of the World Cult, Ancient Aliens, |
| 2023-Sep-15 • 102 minutes TWIS with a TWIST What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Interview with Dr. Carin Bondar, Atmospheric Discovery, Ultrasound Impacts, Cancer Recurrence, Sterile Gloves, Poor Robots, Moral Brains, Deadly Geometry, Pollinator Struggles, AI For Ecology?, Dirty Talk, And Much More TWIS with a Twist! Become a Patron! Check out the full unedited episode of our […] | The post 13 September 2023 – Episode 943 – TWIS with a TWIST appeared first on This Week in Science - The Kickass Science Podcast. |
| 2023-Sep-08 • 105 minutes How Much Science Did You Inhale? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Inhale Science, Embryo Stems, Magic Mushrooms, Genetic Protection, Chronic Fatigue, Less Pollution, Batty Boxes, Homo Erectu balls, Dish Brain Advances, Baby Smarts, Go To Sleep, |
| 2023-Sep-01 • 117 minutes Why Are German Boars So Hot? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Free From Dialysis?, Ancient Apes of Turkey, Hot German Boars, Migratory Birds, AI Wins Again?, Can AI talk to animals?, Why Cats Like Tuna, Bees & Neanderthals, Bat Brains, Plastic Brains, |
| 2023-Aug-25 • 91 minutes When Will Science Solve Aging? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Moon Landing!, Lighter Magnets?, Consciousness of AI, Fly Medicine, Music For Cells, Martian Colonists, Sneaky Hummers, Population Overshoot, Rural Pandemic Woes, Memory Cells, Longer-Lived Mice, |
| 2023-Aug-18 • 78 minutes All In All We Are All Just Bricks In The Science What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Demons, Songs via Brain Waves, Fly Plastic, Hidden Consciousness, Better Fake Meat, 3-D Seafood, Extinction Events, Dino Footprints, Octopus Memory, Male Mouse Sex Drive, And Much More Science! |
| 2023-Aug-11 • 89 minutes What's So Super About Science? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: The Milky Way, Denisovans, Social Distance, Super Conductor, Quantum Superchemistry, Nile Crocodiles, Atlantic Conveyer Belt, Humming Galaxy, Space Awareness, Spin Matters, |
| 2023-Aug-04 • 136 minutes This is the Day After. Whatchya Gonna Do Science? This Week: Ancient Discoveries, NASA on UAPs, Tall Tall Trees, Ryugu Rocks, Scandalous Sports Supplements, Eating Plastic, Tickling Rats for Science!, Do power lines kill birds?, Mosquito-Friendly Gene Drive, Cooperation in Cancer Cells, Memory Rhythm, The Stop Spot, Robot Comedians, And Much More Science! |
| 2023-Jul-28 • 101 minutes Nothing Compares 2 Science What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Ruining AMOC, Indonesian Barrier, Restoring Fertility?, Fighting Malaria, The Loch Ness Monster, Fish, Egg Stealing Birds, Stair Trouble, Curious Vs Urgent, Robot Preacher, And Much More Science! |
| 2023-Jul-21 • 92 minutes Science to Sing About What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: No Dark Matter, English Study Bias, Private Medicine, Babies Love Opera, Underwater Pollinators, No Symptoms, Bat Music, Scared Flies, Mini-Brains, Smarter Better, |
| 2023-Jul-14 • 89 minutes Follow the Science Threads! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Martian Minerals, Bird Nests, Deformation Dangers, Megalodon Menu, Same-Sex Relationships in the Wild, Spider Mites Undressed, Snake Friends, Silent Sound, Sugar Control Sleep, Information Trade, |
| 2023-Jul-07 • 110 minutes Free The Science! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Pulsars, Quasars, & Neutrinos, Minimal Cells, Mink Brains, Life & Death, Photosynthetic Efficiency, Bee Homes, Static Ticks, Hunters, Hepatitis C, Brain Boost, And Much More Solstice Science! |
| 2023-Jun-30 • 84 minutes Eat Two Pies for Science What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Life’s Not Begining, Hummingbirds, Morphbot, Dolphins, Electric Works, Elephant Testicles, Cannibalism?, Bunk Studies, And Much More Science! Become a Patron! |
| 2023-Jun-23 • 103 minutes Super Summer Solstice Science! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Horse toes, Global Cooling = Global Warming, Long-Necked Dinos, Cellular Selection, Cancer Cures, Gutsy Treatment, Detail, El Ribbit, Calming Rats, Why Snakes, Pain Fingerprints, |
| 2023-Jun-16 • 127 minutes The Upright Science Brigade! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Solar Systems, Rhino Horns, Asgardians, Australopithecus, Kangaroos, Peanuts, Turtles, Fruit Flies, Trees, Smokers, Brain Tunnels, Taurine, Modular Bots, And Much More Science! Become a Patron! |
| 2023-Jun-08 • 127 minutes What Will You Do... With All This Science? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: JWST News, Younger Dryas, Touchy Plants, Forever Chemicals, Robot Master Chef, Conservation, Assassin Bugs and Bombardier Beetles, Indigenous reforestation, Proteomics & Privacy, Psychedelics, |
| 2023-Jun-02 • 125 minutes You Otter be Listening to This Week in Science! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Otter Day, Reversing Autism, Silent Zoo Tours, Slimy Science, Sweet Damage, Spiders, Seagulls, Neanderthals, Sex Education, Curious Kids, And Much More Science! Become a Patron! |
| 2023-May-25 • 83 minutes How Did We Get Here? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Boosting Life, It’s thanks to the sun we’re here!, Female spiders, Saturn, Ozone, Frog Sperm, Dinosaur Perspective, Ant, Plant, or Spider?, Healing Vibrations, Electric Boost, |
| 2023-May-19 • 110 minutes How Can A Failure Be A Winner in Science? This Week: Watery Comet, Failed cancer drug, Pollen heat, Defective Black Holes?, Parkinson's Disease, eDNYOU, Zebra Finches, Hammerhead sharks, Mushroom-based materials, Pandemic Brain, Magnetic Brain Direction, And Much More Science! |
| 2023-May-12 • 118 minutes The Science of Soap & Mosquitoes What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Einstein, Female Space Crews, Sperm, Diamond Funnels, Stem Cells, Pangenome, Assassin Bugs, Crabs, Doctors experimenting, Magic Mushrooms, Soap, Mosquitoes, And Much More Science! |
| 2023-May-05 • 111 minutes May the 4th has Quantum Microscopes! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Quantum Microscopes, Textbooks in India, Photosynthesis, Aliens, Aminos, Frogs, Seals, Ice Caps, Blood Brain Barrier, Brain Reading, Anorexic Guts, UTIs, And Much More Science! Become a Patron! |
| 2023-Apr-28 • 108 minutes Why aren't we studying sex in space? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Safety & Justice, Bears, Space Sex, Gut Differences, Poop, Asteroids, Sleeping Seals, Roadkill Lemonade, Microbial Resistance, Lost Lunar Lander, New Brain Network, Getting Nervous, |
| 2023-Apr-20 • 83 minutes Fossilized Science! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: PFAS, Electric Healing, Good Cement, Ocean Plastic, Hot Animals, Bat Bones, Parasites, Salt Substitute, 2000 yr old necropolis, And Much More (Fossilized) Science! Become a Patron! |
| 2023-Apr-14 • 104 minutes There's Bacteria in Your Eye What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Upcycling For Eyes, Bacteria, Canadian dire wolf, Mint, Monkeys, Lip Reading, Alexa, Tiger Personality, Bird water, Broccoli, Ancient Drug Use, Aging, And Much More Science! Become a Patron! |
| 2023-Apr-06 • 54 minutes It's the Blairs Animal Corner Spectacular! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Cactus, Portable MRI, Monkey Slieght of Hand, Parakeet Vacations, Female Spiders, Dino Lips, And Much More Animal Corner! Become a Patron! Check out the full episode of our science podcast on YouT... |
| 2023-Mar-30 • 123 minutes How To Do The Science Dance? , What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Hot & Rocky, Farming Pumas, Stressed Out Lizards, Robots, Healing Cockles?, Squid Camouflage, Fishy conspiracy theories, Ancient Gneomes, Signal Strength, Possible MS Cause, |
| 2023-Mar-24 • 114 minutes The Science Springquinox What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Neutrino Detection, Baltic Blasts, Fevers, Galaxies, Forever Chemicals, Big Eyes, Animal Personalities, Pee Shyness, Depression, Otters, Mice Imaging, Language Brains, And Much More Science! |
| 2023-Mar-17 • 90 minutes 15 March 2023 – Episode 916 – Ides Like the Science Pi? This Week: Time Reflections, Just Bad News, Vaccinated Sleep, Butterfly Paint, AI Science Papers, Nickleback, Dizzy Apes, Bees, Monkey tools, Unicorns, Bats, Pollution, And Much More Science! |
| 2023-Mar-10 • 108 minutes How to Get Brainier Thru Science What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Chornobyl Dogs, Water, Plasticosis, Mouse Antlers?, Coffee, Baby Biome, Macaques, Wasps, Dinosaur Bones, Sober Shots, Brain Cell Activation, And Much More Science! Become a Patron! |
| 2023-Mar-03 • 102 minutes What's Your Science Superpower? This Week: Brain Computers, Ancient Platypus, Sea Monsters, Walmart Insect, Neand, Hauling Logs, Octopus Brains, Insect Urination, Lemur Dads, Ice Age Survivor, Oldest Human DNA, Brainy Preferences, Hearty Emotions, And Much More Superpower Science! |
| 2023-Feb-23 • 102 minutes Welcome to the Science Carnival! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Innermost Core, Four-day work-week, Sir David Attenborough, JWST, Da Vinci, Sharkless Vaccines?, Naked Mole Rats, Monkees, Sleeping Students, Medieval Cranial Surgery, Heart Prints, Brain Repair, |
| 2023-Feb-16 • 101 minutes What's going on up there? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Mushrooms, Snakes, Solar Panels, GLOFs, Sheep, Cockatoos, Stone tools, Planet 9, Mouse Contraception, And Much More Science! Become a Patron! Check out the full episode of our science podcast on Y... |
| 2023-Feb-09 • 111 minutes Science, Fungi, & Keanu Reeves What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Fossils, Baths, Sclera, Drug ads, Baby guts, Keanu Reeves, Wrasse, Bugs, Neanderthals, Brainy trademarks, Brain action, And Much More Science! Become a Patron! |
| 2023-Feb-03 • 111 minutes Will the Dodo Fly? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Maps, Black Bears, Bigfoot, Asteroid Asymmetry, Squids, Fungus, Vaccines, Dodo Birds, Fly Sperm, Hydrogen, Neander Skulls, Drinking & IVF, And Much More Science! Become a Patron! |
| 2023-Jan-27 • 102 minutes Who Wants to Play Asteroids? This Week: Earth's Core, The next Pandemic, Screen time bad, outside good, Old Asteroids, Music and stress, Artic Primates, Sea Spiders, Talking chimp, Knowing Dogs, T.gondii, Just Bad News, Antidepressants, Emotional Blunting, The Terminator, And Much More Science! |
| 2023-Jan-20 • 106 minutes Laser-Guided Lightning, Very, Very Frightening! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Predicting Solar Flares, Laser-guided lightning, Toddlers & Dogs, Bird Vagrants, Concrete, Phantom Credits, Tree Tossing, Echidna, Stem Cells, Rebooting Age, And Much More Science! |
| 2023-Jan-12 • 112 minutes 2023 Science Predictions! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Predictions from 2022, Predictions for 2023, Lemurs, Bonobos, Algae Bandaids, Even Older Native Americans, Dino Brains, AI voice mimic, Webb Findings, Memory Drug?, Animal Testing, |
| 2023-Jan-06 • 85 minutes Happy New Year of Science! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Cancer Vaccine, Microplastic, Lucky Pigs, Wasps, Glass Frogs, Seeing Voices, Hairy Research, And Much More Science… Become a Patron! Check out the full episode of our science podcast on YouTube an... |
| 2022-Dec-22 • 105 minutes Top 11 of 2022! What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: What does This Week in Science think were the year’s top science stories? This end-of-year episode counts down the Top 11 science news stories of 2022, and much more science… Become a Patron! |
| 2022-Dec-16 • 140 minutes Welcome To The Science Monkey House This Week: Fusion, Jaguars, Cell Control, Cancer Cures, Chaperone Proteins, Microplastics, Snakes, Migrators, Just Good News, Slime Mold, The 6th Sense, Microbial Motivation, And Much More Science! | The post 14 December, 2022 – Episode 905 – Welcome To The Science Monkey House appeared first on This Week in Science - The Kickass Science Podcast. |
| 2022-Dec-08 • 99 minutes How can you science your way out of a lying toddler? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Paleo Feud?, DNA, Club Competition, ADHD, Lying Toddlers, Cold Noses, Lady Locust, Animal Sounds, Just Good News, Ancient Kid Crafts, Neuralink Concerns, And Much More Science! Become a Patron! |
| 2022-Dec-02 • 129 minutes Does This Wormhole Go To Science Town? What is in the This Week in Science Podcast? This Week: Holographic Wormholes, Monkey see, human see chimp…?, Carbon Removal, Cannabis Contradiction, Cocaine, Death Metal, Wolf Pack Parasite, Singing Bats, Canadian Geese, Meteorite Minerals, Emperors, Octopuses, Bird Jaws, And Much More Science! Become a Patron! Check out the full episode of our science podcast on […] | The post 30 November, 2022 – Episode 903 – Does This Wormhole Go To Science Town? appeared first on This Week in Science - The Kickass Scie... |