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Perseverance Has Landed!, Art Rocks, Underwater Glider, AI Exploration, Choose Your Roach, Magnetic Extinctions, COVID-19 Update, Cute Clones, MonkeyVision, Taxes & Democracy, Eat Your Shrooms, Seasonal Change, Moldy Memory, And Much More…

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Planet earth is in big trouble

Pandemics,

Global warming induced weather patterns

The lack of sustainable solutions capable of overcoming human laziness

The end is not in sight

But it is a good sight closer than it was just a few years ago

And yes, some humans will work really hard to ensure that changes are made

To keep this planet habitable

Meanwhile… Mars

No it’s not ready to live on

But the worse it gets on earth

And the faster we need to come up with solutions to survive here

The better Mars looks…

It won’t be for everyone!

But for anyone that does go there’s one thing they will need to bring with them

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Perseverence Has Landed!

The Ingenuity helicopter has reported in. And, the mission has begun to send back images, video, and the a href="https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8870/nasas-mars-perseverance-rover-provide...

What is in the This Week in Science Podcast?

Perseverence On Mars, Silent Caterpillar Killers, Meat For Cats, Looking Out, Dog Shows, Fish Tracks, Interview with Dr. Ivan Liachko of Phase Genomics, Cockroach Wings, Spider Legs, COVID Protection Genes?, Not So Rare SNPs, Less Is More, Avian Insulation, And Much More…

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As a cold snap grips much of Texas,

And millions are without power as temperatures drop below zero,

Some strange news is coming from the fossil fuel industry

Via the Texas governor and Fox news…

That wind turbines are to blame for the power outages!

Yes the green new deal, so alive and well in Texas,

Is the reason for the power outages according to Fox news and Governor Abbot.

A few fun facts…

Denmark gets 41% of its electricity from wind

Germany 21%

Canada and Sweden have hundreds of dedicated wind farms generating power.

And they all work in the cold weather which those countries are all too familiar with.

The state of Iowa gets 40% of its energy from wind, the most in the United States.

Now western Iowa is seeing rolling blackouts from this winter cold snap as well…

But that’s because 50% of its gas powered generators went off line!

Texas on the other hand gets only 10% of its energy from wind,

and has had similar issues with generators freezing.

Not wind turbines,

but gas generators…

The point is,

What is in the This Week in Science Podcast?

Fish Limbs, Conch Sounds, Animal Stress, Fractal Vision, Ongoing Evolution, Allergy Woes?, Ocean Carbon Cycle, Dragonfly Flight, Orphan Bat Moms, Discriminating Search, Political Marketing, Happy Bones, Sad Sperm, And Much More…

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When you think about it…

(Whatever it is you happen to be thinking about)

Keep in mind that the thing you are thinking about,

Has been thought about before.

If for example you are thinking about how to get a rock out of your shoe

Without having to remove the shoe…

Chances are somebody has thought about doing this before.

It doesn’t mean that others have spent time

thinking of how to get rocks out of your specific shoes

with your specific feet in them.

But certainly others have encountered a similar situation

May have even found solutions.

So whatever you occupies your mind.

Think about it.

Then find out what others have thought about it;

Taking on ideas, solving problems, with sets of solutions

Is always better than going it alone.

Nowhere is that more true than when talking about

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What is in the This Week in Science Podcast?

Old Thumb, Martian Mudslides, Full Moon Crazies, Global Wind Atlas, Old Bone Scratch, Fungus Vs Fungus, COVID-19 Update, Evolutionary Blackmail, Driving Crickets Mad, Monkey Monitors, Frozen Fresh, Stop It, Radio Feelings, And Much More…

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What could be greater than knowing that you are alive?

Doing something you love with your life.

Since we don’t all want to be doctors or science news communicators or succulent farmers…

You might need need to invent something new to do.

One great place to do that is science!

In science there is a lot that needs to studied.

Everything in fact needs a good looking at.

There is pretty much no limit on what you can decide to study.

To get a good idea of what’s available to study

we put together this quick list of examples we call

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Old Thumb

A new analysis of the evolution of human thumb dexterity was published last week. It looks at inferred soft tissues as well as bone proportions and joint angles. Their findings suggest the human thumb first hit the scene with the advent of the species Homo about 2 million years ago.

a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-02/si-mlc012921.

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Carbon Zero, Dung Beetle Poo Control, We Drink Milk, Bird Poo Connections, Autism Markers, Interview with Dr. Yvonne Linton RE: Mosquitoes of the World, Coral Bleaching Revealed, Growing Gonads, Moon Women, Decisive Brains, And Much More…

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Just because you want something to be true doesn’t make it so.

Attacking other people who don’t agree with you won’t change that fact.

For everything you’ve seen and believe,

there are others seeing differently .

But, some try to see something new

by silencing their biases

(as much as possible anyway)

and taking a scientific view.

For everything you see

there is a likely explanation.

If may not be the thing you think,

but an unexpected reason.

So, take your preconceptions

and throw them in the trash.

And, join us here on

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Carbon Zero

A peer-reviewed roadmap for carbon neutrality in the United States has been published by Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Regardless of the eventual path, they prescribe 8 steps to take in the next 10 years. The total cost would be 0.2 – 1.

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Scientific Hope, Anti-fungal Antfarms, All The Protection, Cat Protection, Allergy Gut Bugs, Water That Binds, COVID-19 Update, Beetle Goo, Eel Hunters, Perfect Dino Butthole, Brain Material, Fast Laser Pulses, AI Teacher, Get Some Sleep, And Much More…

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We are living in interesting times…

While this is always true in one way or another

This day and age will be of especially key interest to future historians

Future historians who will be tasked with figuring out how our societies got to where we will be

at the time when future historians are tasked with figuring out our present’s future foundations.

Will this look back be about how grifters, strong men and all too common con-men dictators

were finally and called out,

stripped of power and thrown out for good?

Will this be the age where policy discussions are conducted by people

with knowledge, interest and commitment making a better world.

Will this be another era of war and destruction?

Or one of peace and prosperity?

Will the actions taken by the humans of today

lead us to a rational world of reason, technological innovation and scientific discovery?

Or will we see truth, facts and knowledge further discarded

in favor of the fervently low information minded,