What's In A Name? - This Week in Science (TWIS) - Episode 1040

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(0:00) - Recording Start.
(4:03) - Intro, Dr. Kiki
(4:36) - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - Dr. Kiki
[A couple of false starts, before...]
(5:39) - Opening Theme Music, Dr. Kiki
(6:16) - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings - It's a Solo Dr. Kiki show,! Blair and Justin are both off.

(11:17) - Quick Science Bytes! —

(11:31) - “Renewable” no more: Trump admin renames the National Renewable Energy Laboratory [Ars Technica], Dr. Kiki
(16:40) - A Threat to Evidence-Based Vaccine Policy and Public Health Security at the FDA [The New England Journal Of Medicine], Dr. Kiki
See also - 12 former FDA chiefs unite to say agency memo on vaccines is deeply stupid [Ars Technica], Dr. Kiki
(26:21) - Red Hair Gene Could Explain Why Some Wounds Never Heal [Science Alert], Dr. Kiki
(32:41) - 56 million years ago, the Earth suddenly heated up – and many plants stopped working properly [The Conversation], Dr. Kiki
(39:22) - The late arrival of domestic cats in China via the Silk Road after 3,500 years of human-leopard cat commensalism [Cell - Genomics], Dr. Kiki
(45:08) - OSU Cat Study
(50:50) - What is a “Good” figure: Scoring of biomedical data visualization [PLOS (Public Library Of Science) One], Dr. Kiki
(57:15) - Everything works, almost: A perspective on material evaluation in aqueous battery research [Cell - Joule], Dr. Kiki

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...More minions, please!

(1:10:02) - Dr. Kiki answer a Viewer's Chat Question — What are good holiday Science toys or gifts for a young STEM girl?

(1:16:04) - Show wrap-up

(1:17:42) - Thank you's to our Patreon Sponsors

(1:22:29) - End Theme

And that's all, folks! Except, we still have...

(1:22:41) - The After Show! - It shouldn't be news... that this is the After Show. Thank you's to many in the various chats. TV show recommendations. A TWIS watcher had a 6.0 earthquake their region! And much, much more...