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(0:00) - Recording Start
() - Intro, Dr. Kiki
() - Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! - Justin
() - Opening Theme Music, Dr. Kiki
() - Opening "Good Science!" Greetings - with Dr. Kiki, Blair & Justin. Intros & Top Story Headlines.

() - Quick Science Bytes! —

() - An “incident” with the James Webb Space Telescope has occurred
() - SpaceX launches NASA’s mission to collide with an asteroid [Update], Dr. Kiki
() - New technology exposes liars through telltale activation of facial muscles, Justin
() - Drivers pick, rub and scratch their faces nearly 30 times an hour, study finds, Blair
() - A new map shows where carbon needs to stay in nature to avoid climate disaster, Dr. Kiki
() - Scientists capture humor’s earliest emergence, Justin
() - Scent of Newborn Infants Blocks Aggression in Men but Stimulates Aggression in Women, Dr. Kiki & Justin
() - Reading The Mind Of A Worm, Dr. Kiki
() - Stereotypes in STEM fields start by age six, Blair

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() - TWIS COVID-19/Sars-CoV-2/Coronavirus Update -
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() -COVID surge underway with daily cases already above 93K ahead of holiday, Dr. Kiki
() - Child COVID cases are on the rise, jumping 32% in latest surge, Dr. Kiki
() - A COVID-19 peptide vaccine for the induction of SARS-CoV-2 T cell immunity, Dr. Kiki

() - And we're at the break!

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() - And we're back!

() - Blair’s Animal Corner
() - Blair’s Animal Corner Theme
() - When bees get a taste for dead things: Meat-eating ‘vulture bees’ sport acidic guts, Blair
() - Swapping spit helps ants share metabolic labour [in ants], Blair

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More Science News —

() - Ancient human relative, Australopithecus sediba, "walked like a human, but climbed like an ape," Justin
() - Climate warming forecasts may be too rosy: study, Justin
() - Why Pair Bonding Seabirds Break Up, Dr. Kiki
() - Albatrosses divorce more often when ocean waters warm, Dr. Kiki
() - Giving social support to others may boost your health, Dr. Kiki

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() - Show wrap-up

() - Thank you’s to our Patreon Sponsors

() - End Theme

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

() - The After Show! -