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(0:00) - Recording Start.
(2:11) - Intro, Dr. Kiki
(2:40) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - Dr. Kiki
(3:46) - Opening Theme Music, Dr. Kiki
(4:22) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings - It's a Solo Dr. Kiki show,! Blair and Justin are both off, but shall return!
(6:58) - Quick Science Bytes! —
(7:19) - Scientists Reach a Record Temperature: 280 Billion Times Colder Than The Universe [Science Alert] — Dr. Kiki
See also — Quantum gases below 10 picokelvin in space [Science.org]
(13:48) - Experimental treatment promotes repair after heart attack damage in animal study [University Of Cambridge], Dr. Kiki
See also — A transient modified mRNA encoding Myc and cyclin T1 improves cardiac function after myocardial injury [Nature - Cardiovascular Research]
(18:52) - Hidden worlds in the deep ocean [Eureka Alert], Dr. Kiki
See also — Polymetallic nodules provide a distinct habitat for abyssal meiofauna [Nature - Scientific Reports]
(22:25) - The art of good conversation may involve a little pink noise [Phys.org], Dr. Kiki
See also — Pink noise in dyads’ semantic similarity trajectories predicts conversation enjoyment [Science.org - Advances]
(28:39) - Inspired by elephant trunks, these shape-shifting robots bend, grab and team up [Eureka Alert], Dr. Kiki
See also — Tensegrity continuum robots enable task-adaptive morphologies for cooperative behaviours [Nature Machine Intelligence]
(34:58) - And we're at the break!
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MOAR Science News —
(35:50) - From wild to mild: Friendly foxes show changes in brain region [Phys.org], Dr. Kiki
See also — Hypothalamic cell-type differences associated with selection for tameness in the silver fox [Cell - Current Biology]
(40:57) - Mushrooms Tend to Be Deadly or Trippy. This One Is Both [Gizmodo], Dr. Kiki
See also — The “dark magic mushroom” co-produces amatoxins and psilocybin [Cell - Current Biology]
(48:13) - The social use of meow in the interaction between cats and humans [Science Direct], Dr. Kiki
(49:55) - OH NOES!!! Dr. Kiki's computer crashes wth a frozen screen!...
(52:22) - Dr. Kiki returns after re-bootng her computer & finishes the story.
(1:01:24) - Show wrap-up
(1:02:06) - Thank you's to our Patreon Sponsors
(1:06:00) - End Theme
And that's all, folks! Except, we still have...
(1:07:22) - The After Show! - Folks requesting the end theme song for their music library. Can the robots really be stopped with a “simple device”? 🤖 A news study shows the AI is now in EVERYTHING... Were “Captchas” on web log-ins all data harvesting of visual recognition to train LLMs??? And much, much more...