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Justin: Disclaimer, disclaimer, disclaimer.

The following hour of programming makes no apology for these discoveries that science brings to the world of man. The Pandora’s box that opens wider with each passing eureka moment ushering a new challenges and new hope to the people who have ushered it will forever be pushed open wider – relentlessly until the only thing left within the box is the dust at its bottom accumulated by an eternity of waiting for us to find it.

And then we will study the dust and the container itself. Heck! Maybe it’s not even a box, maybe it’s a jar. Who knows?

But there’s no going backwards – only upwards, only onwards with new hope and fresh ideas. And while fresh ideas like the following hour of our programming do not necessarily represent the views of the University of California at Davis, KDVS or its sponsors, we still ponder how from fire to the Phoenix Lander, from the wheel to the double helix, from absolute Aristotelian space to the relative principles of uncertainty, each new discovery in science takes us further from our humble beginnings and launches us fearlessly into the humble future.

Speaking of the humble future, get ready for This Week in Science, coming up next.

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Justin: Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

There is no absolute up or down, no absolute position in space. But the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies. There are constant changes in relative position throughout the universe. And the observer always seems to be at the center of things.

The keen observations of Giordano Bruno, over 400 years ago pointing out that which is considered obvious today, that the earth is not the center of the universe; the sun is just a star among many and that absolute anything is ever in the eye of the beholder.

Bruno was a believer in free thinking and always spoke his thoughts freely. Eventually, this man ahead of his time was rudely pulled back into his own time when the religious practice of inquisition, viewed his free thinking as a costly threat. He was locked away until his reason could be recanted in favor of the irrational.

But Bruno would not recant, would not trade a single free thinker’s thought in hell for the irrational authority of his captors. Not only did he deny them the satisfaction of recantation but he spoke truth to power right up to the end. “You fear me more than I fear you”, he told the judges.

With an iron spike through his tongue, stripped neck and hanging upside down while strapped to a pole in the town square, Giordano Bruno was burned alive before a crowd of faithful believers in, well, anything that they were pretty much told to believe after seeing that, I’m sure. Lucky for us time and brave thinkers have changed the world we live in.

So even though the views and opinions of the following hour program do not necessarily represent the views of University of California, Davis KDVS or its sponsors, we can still spend the next hour talking and thinking freely with little fear of reprisal because after all, there is no absolute up or down; no absolute position in space.

But the position of anybody is relative to that of This Week in Science, coming up next.

Continue reading “Transcipt: TWIS.org May 27, 2008”

Justin: Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! There are by current estimates 70 sextillion stars in a known universe. That’s a seven followed by 22 zeroes, which means that if you collected every grain of sand from every beach on planet Earth you would still fall critically short in constructing a solar model of the universe.

And since this stellar magnitude maybe mentally incomprehensible like the following hour of programming, it therefore does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of University of California at Davis, KDVS or it’s sponsors.

And while pondering the scale of the universe may put some intimidating perspective on the day to day lives of the average earthling, you are not an average earthling. Yes, our earth may be comparable to a bit of dust and a grain of sand on the edges of the oceans of space but in all of the universe, there’s only one you.

Multiple magnitudes of galaxies may come and go but still, there can be only one you, which makes you a very rare properly of the universe indeed. So pull up a beach chair and together, let’s sun ourselves in the light of our mutually incomprehensible uniqueness as we improve our mental sandbox by listening to This Week in Science, coming up next.
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Kirsten: And you are listening to This Week in Science on KDVS 90.3 Fm in Davis. Joining me in the studio today is not Justin. No, no, no. We have a guest host today, Andy Fell from here at UC, Davis. He work at the..
MH:: Good morning.
Kirsten: Good morning. You work at the news service and you’re jumping free of the print media.
Andy Fell: [Laugh]
Kirsten: Yeheey!
Andy Fell: You know well — print broadcast, this is my first radio show. So here we go.
Kirsten: Yeheey! Exciting. I’m very excited to have you on today. Oh, and you get the bell. [Laugh] Making great use of the props in the studio already. This is good.
Andy Fell: I’ve got the rubber chicken too.
Kirsten: [Laugh] But Nobody gets to see that. If you’ve love to call us and say hello this morning, call in it 530-752-2777. You can say hello to Andy.
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Justin: Disclaimer, disclaimer, disclaimer! From the beginning mankind and for that matter womankind have looked to the night sky for guidance, mystery and inspiration.
Gazing into the starry night we imagined all sorts of wondrous meanings in the twinklings from a distant sphere upon which they hung like Christmas lights on the inside of a cosmic snow globe to the embodiment of the gods themselves. And we found the twinklings to be useful here on earth.
Whether it was navigating a ship in uncharted waters or charting the fate of a new relationship. The stars held answers that could keep us from hitting the rocky shores.
While many brave scientists have died as heretics for defining these celestial inspirations, the true nature of the universe would not allow itself to be shrouded indefinitely from the mind of man or the mind of women for that matter.
And while the nightly twinkling of stars continues to inspire inspite of their true nature begin known much like the hosts of the following hour of programming, they do not necessarily represent the views of the University of California Davis KDVS or its sponsors.
And yet, if you looked carefully next time when the moon is hiding and the stars are at their brightest by connecting just a few points of light visible with the naked eye you may make out a message in the heavens that has been waiting to reach you for quite some time. I believe it says, stay tuned for This Week In Science, coming up next.
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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.

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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”