This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast

09 August, 2017 – Episode 631 – This Week in Science Podcast (TWIS)


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Interview & Stories with Tom Merritt, Bees Know Zero, Gardening Cockroaches, Neutrino Bumpin’, Dark Matter Clumpin’, Tiny Ear Bones, Learn In Your Sleep, Diet For Learning, Pay-ola-opioid-pah-demic, And Much More…
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Humans…

By far the most accomplished category of creature on planet earth

when it comes to certain things…

Harnessing, multiplying and applying energy to do work…

Humans are good at that…

They succeed at technology,

where other creatures seem un-inclined to endeavor…

In this, above all other actions, they are most successful…

Humans make tools,

and learned to fly…

Which is clever,

but only casually so when compared to a crow…

which can do both of these hands free.

Humans domesticated cat and dog to be subservient companion species,

for whom the humans toil to provide food and shelter,

and pick up after asking for nothing in return…

as if it is they in charge of the situation…

Human special effects in film and video seem fantastical feats…

Until you see in real time,

and in reality,

the shape shifting,

color changing cuttlefish’s skill at illusion.

Humans can tell a good tale,

though there are better bards amongst the beluga…

Termite mound architecture dwarfs even the tallest skyscraper by scale.

And, not even the fastest fast rapper can keep pace with a Kookaburra.

And, these are but a few examples…

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