Will Robots Labor For Us? - This Week in Science Podcast (TWIS) - Episode 985

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(0:00) - Recording Start
(2:01) - Intro, Dr. Kiki
(2:26) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! by Justin
(3:01) - Opening Theme Music
(3:37) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings with Dr. Kiki & Justin — our dear Blair is off but shall return!

(7:06) - Quick Science Bytes! —

(7:08) - NASA Composite Booms Deploy, Mission Sets Sail in Space [NASA], Dr. Kiki
(13:18) - NASA Discovers a Long-Sought Global Electric Field on Earth [NASA], Dr. Kiki
See also — Earth’s ambipolar electrostatic field and its role in ion escape to space [Nature]
(28:53) - NASA astronaut reports "strange noise" from Boeing Starliner spacecraft [The Guardian], Dr. Kiki
(30:25) - A pure radiant cooling device for “air conditioning” without conditioning air [Cell - Reports Physical Science], Dr. Kiki

(50:02) - And... we're at the Break!

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...More minions, please!

(51:57) - And we're back from the Break!

No Blair this week, but we do have...

(52:01) - Dr. Kiki's Animal Corner!
(52:28) - Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows [The Guardian], Dr. Kiki
See also — Dogs with a vocabulary of object labels retain them for at least 2 years [The Royal Society - Biology Letters]
(57:34) - Cats and dogs both like to play fetch − it’s rooted in their hunting instincts [The Conversation], Dr. Kiki
(1:03:13) - Large sharks may be hunting each other – and scientists know because of a swallowed tracking tag [Eureka Alert!], Dr. Kiki
See also — First evidence of predation on an adult porbeagle equipped with a pop-off satellite archival tag in the Northwest Atlantic [Frontiers in Marine Science]

More Science News —

(1:12:45) - Gold nugget formation from earthquake-induced piezoelectricity in quartz [Nature - Geoscience], Justin
(1:20:34) - Violence as a lens to Viking societies: A comparison of Norway and Denmark [Science Direct], Justin
(1:33:10) - Engineers Gave a Mushroom a Robot Body And Let It Run Wild [Science Alert], Dr. Kiki
See also — Sensorimotor control of robots mediated by electrophysiological measurements of fungal mycelia [Science - Robotics]
(1:41:27) - Neo Beta humanoid unveiled ahead of limited rollout to people's homes [New Atlas], Dr. Kiki

(1:59:53) - Show Wrap-up + volunteer thank you's.

(2:01:17) - Thank you’s to our Patreon Sponsors

(2:04:20) - End Theme

And that's all, folks! Except, we still have...

(2:05:30) - The After Show! - Justin has a disclaimer? No! He already read the disclaimer! It's the After Show! Justin, being a central valley of California kid, has never experienced the Dutch HUMIDITY before. Schools where Dr. Kiki is might close down due to heat! In September! And much, much more...