Episode 12 - Melting Mammoths, Dinobirds and Bitter Roaches
For Science!
English - June 01, 2013 05:09 - 33.8 MBScience Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
For Science! returns to talking about the Science news in what turns out to be the second last episode featuring Maia (not sure what's going on? I blogged about it here)
This episode we tackle:
Whether it's possible that actual Mammoth blood has been found in Russia: http://phys.org/news/2013-05-russian-scientists-rare-blood-mammoth.html
How cockroaches are evolving to deal with the threats posed by common household baits: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6135/972
The ongoing discussion over whether the Archeopteryx is either a dinosaur like bird or bird like dinosaur: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22695914
Crowd funding science, this time it's an orbital telescope: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1458134548/arkyd-a-space-telescope-for-everyone-0
Also, I talk about a TED talk by Jack Horner, I've linked to it below. I would really recommend you go and watch it (after listening to this episode of course)