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This Week: Interstellar Interloper, Mind’s Eye, Jumping Spiders, Pig Lungs, Covid Shots, Ape Medicine, Cane Toads, Bird Poop, Justin Trashes a Study, Phantom limb, Big Brainy Thumb, Nature Words, and Much More Good Science!

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Although the sun is shining
High above
There are shadows creeping
In spite of

All that we have learned from
science, literature, history, and art
Like there is a madness growing
An ignorance in the American heart

How freedoms are lost
Is how power is seized
And it’s a long road back
From enslavement to freed

So this book, that research, those ideas
Every ban comes with a hidden cost
Because knowledge is a form of freedom
And a free mind is never lost

There are brilliant people in the world
More than ever before
And one not too distant day
They will again be knocking on the American door

After the failure of the ignorant and the cruel
When the smart kids have had enough
The sun will still be shining
High above

Meanwhile, down on Earth…
It’s This Week in Science!

Scientifically Interesting News!

Interstellar Interloper
What’s up with comet 3I/Atlas?

Mind’s Eye
Is there a risk to opening the mind’s eye?

Jumping spiders see a “sea of red”
Will this mean doom for one particular species?

Pig Lung Test
What happened when researchers transplanted a pig lung into a human?

COVID shot
Can you even get the COVID shot this year?

Ape Medicine
Why are chimpanzees putting insects in their wounds?

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Blair’s Animal Corner!

New ammo for cane toads
CRISPR to the rescue!

Duck!
Seabirds poop while flying, and they do so quite often. So is it really good luck to get plopped??

Science Stories with Justin!

Justin trashes a study
“I spent 3 1/2 hours trying to figure out how I was reading it wrong, turns out it was the study was trash!”

Brainy Stories with Kiki!

Phantom Limb Mistake
Does phantom limb syndrome arise in the brain or the periphery?

Big Brainy Thumb
What does the thumb have to do with the brain?

Nature Words
Where are they going?

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Take a blast into the past…

What were we discussing at this time last year? This time last year, we discussed Stucktronauts, Material Questions, Frozen Remains, Genetics Grammar, Megalithic mystery solved, Culling Crocodiles, Antlions Play Opossum, Sweet Bat News, NASA DART, Pong Goo, Brain Attack!, And Much More Science to get stuck with!

This week 10 years ago TWIS we discussed One Jab To Rule, Evolution And Vaccines, No Omega-3 Benefits, Skydiving Spiders, Pestering Guppies, Monkey Brains for Fractions, Fusion Power Headway?, Hawking Information, Kids Lunch, Mendelian MS + D, Female Viagra Approved!, And Much More!

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