Day: July 12, 2009

Transcript-TWIS.ORG June 30, 2009


Synopsis: Digg’n Physics via Twitter, Dino Skinny, Bird Brain Insights, Fish Freakouts!, Tunguska Shuttle Hugs, Building Better Melons, Minion Mailbag, and The Question of the Month!

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What is right is right. And what is wrong is wrong. What is true is true. And what is untrue is untrue. What is science is science. And what is not science is not science. Such absolutes are hard to find in the push-pull of human nature driven world.

For what is right, like a free election can be untrue in it’s result. What is most easily condemned as wrong, like the murder of innocents can be true as we have seen too often in the past than most recently in Iran.

What is not science can be disguised as science in order to gain our trust. And fake science journals rigged industry research and false claims by hired assassins of truth — tobacco isn’t addictive, global warming isn’t happening, drugs will never kill you.

As the fabrication of false denials are found out, defrocked, defiled and filed under fraudulent, they much like the following hour of our programming, do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of California at Davis, KDVS or its sponsors.

As living in a world without absolutes can make for a foggy notions sense of being, let us create a few absolutes upon which to stand. What is science is absolutely right and never wrong. For it is a continuing process, the self-correction, that is willing to change when it isn’t correct.

What is science is absolutely true and never untrue. For this ever moving towards truth, regardless of where it started and what we want truth to be has no relation to what truths we find.

And science is a process of getting it right. That is willing to get it wrong until we are getting at what is true more often than we are settling for what is untrue. And so, science therefore rejects all absolutes. All absolutes that is a long the way to becoming, This Week in Science, coming up next.
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Transcript-TWIS.ORG June 23, 2009

Synopsis: Bacteria proves that the World Is Smarter Than You, Plant are aware of their environment, Competition increases Brain size, Bacterial Brilliance, Lazy Eye Games , Supercomputing Sunspots, Brain Tools, Toxic Birds, Where is My Schizophrenia?

Justin: Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

What we know of the world is limited like a cavefish evolved without the need of sight. Eyelessly bumping against the rocky sides of our enclosure, we have evolved only a primitive ability to sense our surroundings.

The full spectrum of our environment would continue to remain as hidden from us as the sun lit world above the cavern pool to the blind fish if not for our unique ability to conduct the revolutionary act of science.

With science, we can see far beyond the boundary of our evolutionary bubble from the electron spin to galaxy clusters of the early universe. Science gives us a method to touch, taste, hear, smell and see in ways that nature alone could not.

And while it is debatable whether or not our uniqueness of scientific mind is separate from nature or simply an extension of how nature makes modifications of genetic tools with which to observe things, thereby bringing up the potential argument of whether life itself is natural when it’s compared to the deadness with the rest of the known universe, thereby making anything that life indulges in a wholly unnatural happening in the first place.

Still it is sufficient in the context to the following hour of our programming to say that the views and opinions expressed here naturally do not represent those of the University of California at Davis, KDVS or its sponsors.

Get ready to leave the protective bubble of your evolutionary upbringing. And like a blind but curious cavefish, go out of water, boldly, where no cave fishes dare to go to before as we do each week here on This Week in Science, coming up next.
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Transcript-TWIS.org June 16, 2009


Synopsis: Bisphenol A and estrogen, Toxoplasma Gondii causing car crashes?, Beware of Robo-Ferret used to sniff out hidden things, RoboGames Redux, Adventures in Popularity, Move Over Silicon!, Go Fly A Kite, TWIS Bits, and Interview w/ Dr. Greg Gibson re: Genes and Illness.

Justin: Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

It’s no secret, no one gets out of here alive. The question then, if anyone asks, is what if anything we do with the time we have in the great go around. Suggestions are plenty and opinions abound or regardless of intentions of what we do or who we are and why we are doing these things, our opinions, like the following hour of our programming, do not necessarily represent those of the University of California at Davis, KDVS or its sponsors. Still, regardless of self-opinion, this is the moment in which we can do.

In a sense, what we can do is who we are, we are all about to be, This Week in Science, coming up next.
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