211: Nicky Urban on Heart-Hugging Robots, Optogenetic Mouse Armies and Bad Science in Wyoming

Just Chan and Dave this week, as we greet Chan's new baby, Egon, and talk about the future of the show. Please stay tuned for our new show format coming soon!

Gravity measured

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/neutron-star-collision-gravitational-waves

IQ and Anxiety

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bad-news-for-the-highly-intelligent/

BREATHATARIANS DO EXIST

http://www.newsweek.com/bizarre-antarctic-bacteria-live-air-alone-could-show-exactly-how-alien-life-742631

CASTLE IN THE SKY

http://bigthink.com/robby-berman/the-earths-first-self-declared-space-kingdom-is-orbiting-overhead

The Science Jerks (@thesciencejerks) is hosted by Dave Ciaccio (@daveciaccio) and Robert Chan (@999rpms) and produced by Stephen Perlstein (@perlstein) for the Boardwalk Audio Network (@boardwalkaudio). Find us at http://sciencejerks.com and http://boardwalkaudio.com/sciencejerks. Email us at heyjerks@sciencejerks.com. Subscribe for free on Stitcher or iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/science-jerks-real-science/id578684997

Comedian Erik Barnes (@ErikWBarnes) joins us to talk about the new political push to go to the moon, an attempt to pick out psychopaths by music tastes and how duck penises respond to a drake's position in society.

Don't Fall on the Moon

https://www.popsci.com/astronaut-hurt-moon-rescue#page-3

MINORITY REPORT IS COMING

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/26/playlist-of-the-lambs-psychopaths-prefer-rap-over-classical-music-study-shows

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/science/stanford-sexual-orientation-study.html

Duck Penis Politics

https://www.popsci.com/duck-penis-social-pressure

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Comedian Erik Barnes (@ErikWBarnes) joins us to talk about the impending crash to Earth of a disabled Chinese Space Station, how microdosing psilocybin, AKA magic mushrooms, has had positive results treating depression and anxiety, and a new type of camouflage that incorporates texture, much like the mighty octopus.

THIS IS GROUND CONTROL TO MAJOR TIANGONG

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/13/tiangong-1-chinese-space-station-will-crash-to-earth-within-months

Magic Mushroom Make you Magically Undepressed

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2150305-magic-mushroom-extract-changes-brains-of-people-with-depression/

STEALING CLOAKING TECHNOLOGY FROM THE KLINGO- ER, OCTOPUSES

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171012143313.htm

The Science Jerks (@thesciencejerks) is hosted by Dave Ciaccio (@daveciaccio) and Robert Chan (@999rpms) and produced by Stephen Perlstein (@perlstein) for the Boardwalk Audio Network (@boardwalkaudio). Find us at http://sciencejerks.com and http://boardwalkaudio.com/sciencejerks. Email us at heyjerks@sciencejerks.com. Subscribe for free on Stitcher or iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/science-jerks-real-science/id578684997

Filmmaker Winston Carter returns to talk about the controversial new method for cremating human remains with chemicals instead of fire, how many distinct emotions humans have and the ways in which humans are still evolving.

WRING OUT YOUR DEAD

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dissolve-the-dead-controversy-swirls-around-liquid-cremation/

WE'VE GOT EMOTION DOWN TO A SCIENCE

http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/09/06/27-emotions/

STILL EVOLVING AFTER ALL THESE YEARS

http://www.popsci.com/humans-are-still-evolving#page-2

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Filmmaker Winston Carter joins us to talk about a new technique to extend the lifespan of fruit flies, how amazingly good face detection algorithms have become and a way to turn skin cells into motor neurons.

WE'VE MADE FRUIT FLIES IMMORTAL

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-biologists-slow-aging-extend-lifespan-of-fruit-flies

BAD NEWS FOR INCOGNITO MOVIESTARS AND ANTIFA PROTESTORS

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2146703-even-a-mask-wont-hide-you-from-the-latest-face-recognition-tech/

TURNING SKIN INTO MOTOR NEURONS

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170907132836.htm

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Artist Nate Siggard (SkinMotion.com) returns to chat with us about how the Zika virus is being used to fight Cancer, what the new driverless car legislation means for the future of driving and how postpartum depression in new fathers can lower stress in mothers. Plus we talk about the biological roots of racism.

ZIKA CURES CANCER! SORT OF.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2146356-we-may-be-able-to-use-zika-virus-to-attack-brain-cancer-cells/

CONGRESS MIGHT DO SOMETHING RIGHT

https://www.wired.com/story/congress-self-driving-car-law-bill/

POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION IN DADS CAN BE GOOD FOR MOMS

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170905145535.htm

Check out the Skin Motion Augmented Reality Tattoo App for iPhone and Android in the Apple Store and on Google Play.

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The Science Jerks (@thesciencejerks) is hosted by Dave Ciaccio (@daveciaccio) and Robert Chan (@999rpms) and produced by Stephen Perlstein (@perlstein) for the Boardwalk Audio Network (@boardwalkaudio). Find us at http://sciencejerks.com and http://boardwalkaudio.com/sciencejerks. Email us at heyjerks@sciencejerks.com. Subscribe for free on Stitcher or iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/science-jerks-real-science/id578684997

Artist Nate Siggard (SkinMotion.com) joins us to talk about a possible collision of neutron stars found by the LIGO gravitational wave detector, how packs of wild dogs in Africa vote by sneezing, and how the city of Los Angeles is fighting warming by making white streets.

LIGO TRACKING BIGGEST EXPLOSION EVER RECORDED

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/rumors-swirl-ligo-snagged-gravitational-waves-neutron-star-collision?tgt=nr

AFRICA: BIRTHPLACE OF DEMOCRACY

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170905202954.htm

L.A. APPLYING SPF 1000000

http://www.popsci.com/la-is-painting-its-streets-white-to-keep-city-cool

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Gerard Dean Peters returns to talk to us about the recent discovery that there's way more Black Holes than we thought, the fact that marathon runners have a special runners' biome and what's the deal with roving jewelry. Plus we look into what Neil Armstrong or Buzz would have done if they had gotten stuck on the moon.

THERE'S SO MANY BLACK HOLES

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/we-share-milky-way-100-million-black-holes

CAN BACTERIA TURN YOU INTO AN ULTRAMARATHONER?

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170820075017.htm

LIVING JEWELRY IS LIKE BEING COVERED IN BUGS

https://curiosity.com/topics/project-kino-is-living-jewelry-that-moves-around-your-body-like-an-insect-curiosity?utm_source=iosapp

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Comedian Gerard Dean Peters stops by to help us take a look at some near-Earth Asteroids headed our way, what we should be doing to fight super-volcanoes and why speaking in your non-native language helps you to be more logical, and less emotional.

EARTH GRAZIN'

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/212546/20170812/asteroid-expected-to-skim-past-earth-in-october.htm

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/212740/20170819/large-near-earth-asteroid-to-safely-zoom-past-the-planet-on-sept-1.htm

TAPPING SUPER-VOLCANOES

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2017/08/a-greater-threat-than-asteroids-earths-20-known-supervolcanoes-erupt-once-every-100000-years.html

FOREIGNER LANGUAGES MAKE YOU MORE LOGICAL (or MAKE THE PRESIDENT SPEAK SPANISH!)

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170817141717.htm

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The Science Jerks (@thesciencejerks) is hosted by Dave Ciaccio (@daveciaccio) and Robert Chan (@999rpms) and produced by Stephen Perlstein (@perlstein) for the Boardwalk Audio Network (@boardwalkaudio). Find us at http://sciencejerks.com and http://boardwalkaudio.com/sciencejerks. Email us at heyjerks@sciencejerks.com. Subscribe for free on Stitcher or iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/science-jerks-real-science/id578684997

Miles Roberts (@milesboberts) returns to talk about what it means that two artificial intelligence robots learned their own language, why Ebola RNA is still showing up in survivors semen and how the "Third Space" of Augmented Reality is already selling adspace.

A.I. APOCALYPSE

http://www.snopes.com/facebook-ai-developed-own-language/

HELP! THERE'S EBOLA IN MY JIZZ!

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170802152532.htm

AR ADS ARE EVERYWHERE!

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2142857-augmented-reality-graffiti-will-lead-to-advertising-ambush-wars/

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The Science Jerks (@thesciencejerks) is hosted by Dave Ciaccio (@daveciaccio) and Robert Chan (@999rpms) and produced by Stephen Perlstein (@perlstein) for the Boardwalk Audio Network (@boardwalkaudio). Find us at http://sciencejerks.com and http://boardwalkaudio.com/sciencejerks. Email us at heyjerks@sciencejerks.com. Subscribe for free on Stitcher or iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/science-jerks-real-science/id578684997