Transcript:TWIS.ORG Jan 26, 2010

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How do we judge the quality of life? Some would say it is by whether or not that life is a life lived well. But what is a life lived well? Is it an accomplishment or an affect, a way of being in the world?

This is to say that a life lived well could simply be a life lived in accordance with an individual’s ideals. The life lived well of a painter being very different perhaps in the life lived well of a pro football player or microbiologist.

And there could, by this measure, be as many ways of living the life well-lived as there are people living lives, leaving it up to each of us to decide if the life we’re living is living up to our own standard of wellness.

While equality of life issues, 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.

The question being interjected into your brain frames at this moment in time is, “Are you living your life the way you, yourself, would judge a life to be well-lived?” Forget about champagne wishes and caviar dreams. I’m talking about you, being the best you. Are you?

If your answer is anything other than, “Hells yeah,” make time this week to invite your ideal you over for a coffee and ask yourself, “What you might do to be more you like?” Just like you, we want to be the best we as we can be, which we couldn’t do without you turning into This Week in Science, coming up next.
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Transcript:TWIS.ORG Dec 08, 2009

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The following hour of programming contains language of a scientific nature, which may be considered offensive to some people. If you believe that evolution is an attempt to undermine your creation; if you are sure that the moon landing was a government hoax; if you are certain of the age of the earth and that it is less than 10,000 years; if you know global warming is fake because of an email you have never read; if you think developing cures to human disease from ten-cell blastocysts shatters human dignity – then you are listening to the right show.

And while offending, undermining, hoaxing and faking and shattering the world views of certain minded people — much like the following hour of programming — does not represent the views or opinions of the University of California at Davis, KDVS or its sponsors, if you listen, you will gain knowledge and will become powerful because knowledge is intellectual power.

If you listen long enough, that power will corrupt you. Once corrupted, you will realize that you are still as good or rotten a person as you were before having been corrupted by a powerful intellectual content; that knowledge in fact does not corrupt people but that it is people that can corrupt knowledge; that the same can be said of truth, money, power and This Week in Science, coming up next.
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Transcript:TWIS.ORG Dec 29, 2009

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Here we are, ten years into the 21st century and a few things are absolutely abundantly clear, problems of mankind continue to be the problems of mankind. Generally speaking, things aren’t getting any easier and life on Earth is not getting any simpler. Still, as we have zoomed ahead another decade in time, much has changed and most of it for the better.

We are a smarter planet for one thing, having added to our mental databases of knowledge, tremendous petaflops of information about the complexities of the universe. We have answered some age-old questions and have posed new questions to be worked on in the decades to come.

Science, we seek to unravel the mysteries, overcome the obstacles and create a better future for us all. While science is a major focus of the University of California at Davis, it does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the next hour of our programming, KDVS or its sponsors.

And while science continues to pursue a more perfect future, we’ll take a few moments now to look back at the year of new findings, here on This Week in Science, coming up next.
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Transcript:TWIS.ORG Jan 05, 2010

Justin: Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! It’s a new day, a new year and a new decade. A time of resolutions and commitments to a better you in the future to come. With all of the things real or invented that we worry about in the course of making our way through a day, this year, let’s agree together – that the best way in which we can improve ourselves is to create a balance between the need for survival and the act of enjoying our lives.

Let us dedicate the coming year to doing those things that bring us joy, pleasure and peace of mind. While the Epicurean philosophy of tempered enjoyment much like the following hour of programming does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of California at Davis, KDVS or its sponsors, we hope that you enjoy your time with the conversations to come on This Week in Science. Coming up next.

Good new year, Kirsten.
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Transcript:TWIS.ORG March 9, 2010

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The following hour of our programming is design to aggressively rewire your subconscious brain to be interested in science. If you are already a science junkie, this show will feed your habit, keep you in the fix.

If you’re curious and want to know about the world you live in, this show will display all sorts of curious facts about exactly that world. If you’re not curious about the world you live in but simply would like to know what there is to be curious about should the notion strike you, we have you covered as well.

And while you’re subconscious addiction to curiosity much like the following hour of our programming, does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of University of California at Davis, KDVS or its sponsors. Understand that while all these are in the pursuit of such ideals as knowledge, truth and understanding that this show attempts earnestly to elicit in snapshots from the world of science each week, it is curiosity that reigns above all else.

As our show’s mantra, motif and theme, “For in the dance of science, every veil of mystery that drops, a truth is revealed. With every truth unveiled, new knowledge is born. And with every bit of newborn knowledge of the world comes a greater veil of mystery.” And more intense curiosity follows on This Week in Science, coming up next.
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Transcript:TWIS.ORG Dec 22, 2009

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Hold on. Now is not the moment for faith or doubt. Now is not the moment for contemplation or belief. Now is not the moment for hesitation or an action of any kind.

Now is the moment in which you can do. And while what choice of action you take – much like the following hour of programming – will not represent the University of California, Davis, KDVS or its sponsors, what you do now has more importance, more meaning than any theory or consideration of thought.

The sum total of the universe’s past has led to this now. The future flow of possibility will be forged by this now. This now is yours to master, yours to act upon, yours to set in motion. And in this now, the future is yours for the taking which is why we are so honored that you have chosen to dedicate this now to This Week in Science, coming up next.
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Transcript:TWIS.org Dec 15, 2009

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When we enter the world, we find it to be brand new. Regardless of the work, blood and struggle of ages that came before, our first encounter with life is always the brave new world into which we are born. The sum of all human history simply is the stage setting for this first day.

And once here, once we become comfortable with the world as we have found it, as we have learned it, as we believe it to be, any change to this is difficult to adjust to as though another new world is attempting to take the place of our own. We resist this change as though it were a death of our own past – our own brief past – our very life as its potential victim.

And while the reincarnating world much like the following hour of our programming does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of California at Davis, KDVS or its sponsors, if we look back to some point before we met the world, we find that the world has never stayed the same – has never allowed us to write our names permanently in stone and that in times the stone themselves will perish under the pressure of an ever changing planet.

What else can we take from the lesson of history is this. Survival on a changing planet requires above all other skills, the ability to identify, adapt and overcome the changes that put us in peril. So that no matter what new challenges we face, we will still be able to live well enough to hear This Week in Science coming up next.
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Transcript:TWIS.ORG Mar 02, 2010


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The largest earth tremor recorded anywhere on the planet registered a 9.5 magnitude on the Richter scale. It occurred 50 years ago in Chile, the Gran Terremoto de Valdivia.

Fifty years later, people of Chile are no strangers to earthquakes. And despite the great magnitude and duration of the recent 8.8 Chilean building codes, engineering and retrofitting have saved many more lives than were lost.

If we know our history, we know that there are no such things as natural disasters. There are only disasters of man’s making. For ignorance of tectonics will not protect people from tremors. Not having seen a hurricane first hand doesn’t mean they are harmless.

Filling former floodplains with newly furnished homes is not going to dictate the future rainfall for that area. If you want to live on a mountain peak or a valley floor, by ocean frontage or in hillside retreat or wherever you prefer to place yourself on the planet, it comes with the responsibility of being prepared.

And while condemning ignorance of the future, much like the following hour of our programming, does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of California at Davis, KDVS or its sponsors.

Nature is a consistent creature. If you watched her movements in the past, you will know where she will go in the future. The better we know her ways, the more prepared we will be to deliver This Week in Science, coming up next.
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Transcript: TWIS.org Feb 23, 2010

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With the eyes of the world watching, with the hopes of a nation resting upon your shoulders, with the lifetime of training and hard work at your disposal and everything on the line, what now separates you from the victory platform or the agony of defeat?

Only you, your will to make it happen. Concentrate, meditate, one point of focus. Now is the moment in which you can do. Whether you’re about to make your attempt for Olympic gold or stepping out of your front door to meet the day, every moment of your life is an opportunity to perform at your best.

And while your best, much like the following hour of programming, does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of California at Davis, KDVS or its sponsor. Like your life, Science is an unending series of Olympic performances with scientists who train hard to hone their skills working alone or in teams, researchers going for the gold with every study.

And though we are not gathered in one spot, we are the crowd cheering each triple acts of twisler and stuck three point landing of insight and innovation, and waiting with anticipation the results and hopes of adding to our overall mental count here on This Week in Science, coming up next.
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Transcript:TWIS.org Feb 09, 2010

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The future is not difficult to see. Unlike the past, events of the future have yet to commit themselves to exacting detail. Yet in the mystery of an unfolding world, there is much that can be foreseen. The little things we expect from the future often come true with incredible reliability, like when the rent is due or whether or not it’s going to rain.

The more often our future unfolds as we have expected, the more comfortable we are in commanding the course that it will take and that we get to go where we want to.

And though, comfortable foreseeing of the otherwise unforeseeable – much like the following hour of programming does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of California at Davis, KDVS or its sponsors – through science, the past is always becoming clear.

We can see how one event lends itself to another. Through science, we can understand so well the workings of the world that the future cannot only be predicted, it can be manufactured to our liking, making the only time that is not as well known to us as the past and future is the one we are currently in – the moment of now.

And since this is the only moment in which we can do, we will now do what the past predicted and what was expected in the future by bringing you another episode of This Week in Science, coming up next.
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