Month: April 2008

Justin: Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Not since the days of the traveling circus side show carnival of conjoined contortionist, limbless, jugglers, and knife throwing micro-cephalic has the American imagination have been so enthralled with the bearded lady. And the pregnant one at that!

Still science assures though the imagination may wonder, the headlines may proclaim, and her beard may tickle, it is still not possible for a man to be pregnant. While the following freak show of programming does not necessarily represent the views and opinions of the University of California Davies KDVS and it’s sponsors.

It does offer a look into a world of wonder and amazement. That will at once startle and astonish your senses. You won’t believe your own ears, when you peak behind the canvas curtain and witness for yourself, all the strangeness that awaits you in This Week in Science. Coming up next.

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Justin: Of the – what it takes to reproduce. Which is usually in the females.

Kirsten: Hmm.

Justin: And in the third eukaryote –

Kirsten: Eukaryote.

Justin: Eukaryote kingdom, the fungi kingdom, there are no sexes but rather simpler and more primitive system of different so-called mating types that are distinguish by different variants of a few specific genes.

There are many ways to determine sex. In humans, done by sex chromosomes, or a – actually there are simpler ways. But it’s thought that the sex difference arose in plant and animal kingdom from this simpler system mating types that, this happens several times independently of each other throughout evolution.

The change is believed to have happened with the inhibition of a step in the copying process in DNA, which led to two separate chromosomes. These then developed further over long period of time.

“In humans, sex chromosomes are believed to dropped over the last 300 million years from a common ‘proto-sex chromosome’”, says Hanna Johannesson, who directed the study.
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Justin: Our next presentation, we will give you an hour and a half of squirrels chatting. [laughs]

Kirsten: [laughs] Yes, and with that, we are going to take a short station break. We will be back in just a few moments. Stay tuned before This Week in Science.

Justin: Am going to raise my cortisol?

Kirsten: Yes. Go get it, Justin.

[music playing]

Justin: [singing]

Kirsten: [laughs]

Justin: Hey we are back.

Kirsten: We are back, that’s Chris Taylor with “Robots are Great”, that’s off of the – 2007?

Justin: 2007.

Kirsten: Yes. The two thousand –

Justin: Six.

Kirsten: Oh, my goodness. 2006 music compilation.

Justin: Time is flying.

Kirsten: Wow. Yes. The 2008 compilation is coming along really flying the super colored fast wonderfulness.

Justin: Wow. Goodness Its good.

Kirsten: It could.

Justin: It sound even good.

Kirsten: My caveman’s speech attacked.. Continue reading “Transcipt: TWIS.org Mar 18, 2008 Part 3”

Justin: They say that they’ve contributed great – much more greatly than the Australian government’s flyovers of military helicopters and what have you. Japan for whom whaling is historically part of its culture, much like slavery was at the United States I guess, has plan to kill 850 Minke whales and 50 fin whales.

Under international pressure, Japan dropped plans to kill up to 50 humpbacks, beloved by the Australian whale watchers. They also have one, like albino humpback- that’s like the name that the tourist got to see all the time, and it was so frightening like –

Kirsten: Yes. To somebody who is going to kill it.

Justin: Going to kill their cash cow of the sea.

Kirsten: Tourist cash whale?

Justin: Yes. Last year, as well – Japan only killed a little – more than half of its intended catch, although at that point it was because a fire had damaged the mother ship and it was leaking oil into the arctic down there.
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[Laughter]
Marc: Welcome to LinkedIn Live: Who’s Your Daddy? And I’m your daddy. This is Marc Freedman coming to you from Dallas, Texas. Lovely sunny day here, the torrential rains have gone, and we’re happy to be in sunshine.

Today’s Wednesday, March 19. Thank you for joining us. We’ve had a few technical difficulties, so we’re not able to mix in our music at this time, so it’s going to be all Marc all the time and in any case thank you for joining us.

Again, this is LinkedIn Live: Who’s your daddy? Our website is whosyourdaddyshow.com and at that site you will find a bunch of things. There is Links which come direct to our show, we have a number of yahoo groups, and mailing list that you can join – through DallasBlue you can join the mailing list for the official announcement for this show.

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Justin: Science? Nuclear…?
Kirsten: [moaning].
Justin: …. nuclear science. And let them figure out a way to you know, saying things, I mean scientists to find a way to do the clean-up properly.
You spend the next 10, 15 years pumping money into the nuclear program to figure out how to clean the mess with bacteria with other sort of processes. And then you turn around you to do the clean-up in five years.
Kirsten: And make it proper that…
Justin: You know what I mean?
Kirsten: Mm mmh, so it is an interesting idea.
Justin: I’m saying go out to the science and technology first.
Kirsten: [laughter].
Justin: That will make the technology using the clean-up so much better.
Kirsten: In the meantime just put a big fence around it.
Justin: Well, I mean if it’ going to take another 40 years…
Kirsten: I know…
Justin: Forty year, anyway…

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