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| | Genre | Talk Radio / Podcast | | Running time | 50 minutes | | Country |
 United States | | Home station | KDVS | | Starring | Kirsten Sanford and Justin Jackson | | Creator(s) | Kirsten Sanford | | Air dates | June 2000 – present | | No. of episodes | 200+ | | Website | http://www.twis.org | | Podcast feed | http://www.twis.org/audio/podcast.rss | This Week in Science (TWIS) is a weekly science radio talk show broadcasting from KDVS 90.3FM on the UC Davis campus since 2000. Each week TWIS founder/host Kirsten Sanford and co-host Justin Jackson deliver a lively and informative review of up-to-the-minute research in science and technology. This Week in Science has received wide acclaim for its unique and personable approach to science journalism, pioneering a style that is one part Science Friday to one part Car Talk. Talk radio is a radio format which features discussion of topical issues. ...
Podcasting is a way of publishing sound files to the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed and receive new audio files automatically. ...
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KDVS is a freeform, 9,200 watt, community radio station in Davis, California. ...
KDVS is a freeform, 9,200 watt, community radio station in Davis, California. ...
The University of California, Davis, commonly abbreviated to UC Davis or UCD is one of the ten University of California campuses. ...
Science Friday is a call-in talk show that is part of National Public Radios Talk of the Nation radio program hosted by Ira Flatow every Friday. ...
Car Talk is a radio talk show broadcast weekly on National Public Radio stations throughout the United States and elsewhere. ...
The show is available live on FM radio in Northern California and via live internet broadcasts from the KDVS website. Archived versions of the show are available on the This Week in Science Archive and through the TWIS podcast on iTunes.
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Dr. Kirsten Sanford (Founder/Host) is a research scientist in Neurophysiology at the University of California, Davis and is a specialist in learning and memory. She holds a B.S. in Conservation Biology and a Ph.D in Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology from UC Davis and is a frequent lecturer on the Davis campus. The University of California, Davis, commonly abbreviated to UC Davis or UCD is one of the ten University of California campuses. ...
Kirsten was recently awarded the 2005 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Mass Media Fellowship Award in recognition for her work with This Week in Science. Through this fellowship she worked as a television news producer at WNBC News in New York City working with noted health and science reporter Dr. Max Gomez. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an organization that promotes cooperation between scientists, defends scientific freedom, encourages scientific responsibility and supports scientific education for the betterment of all humanity. ...
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Dr. Max Gomez is a native of Havana, Cuba and is the medical correspondent for the telivision station WNBC in New York city, United States. ...
Justin Jackson (Co-Host) is currently unemployed and previously worked as a used car salesman where he used his charm and intellectual prowess to persuade customers to purchase extended warranties and optional undercoating. While not possessing any form of verifiable science education, Justin is a renowned armchair theoretical physicist and has developed his own (somewhat dubious) competitor to String Theory which he calls “Oceanic String Theory”. With the show since 2005, he brings a unique comic sensibility to TWIS. Theoretical physics attempts to understand the world by making a model of reality, used for rationalizing, explaining, predicting physical phenomena through a physical theory. There are three types of theories in physics; mainstream theories, proposed theories and fringe theories. ...
Interaction in the subatomic world: world lines of pointlike particles in the Standard Model or a world sheet swept up by closed strings in string theory String theory is a model of fundamental physics whose building blocks are one-dimensional extended objects called strings, rather than the zero-dimensional point...
Listenership This Week in Science reaches a potential audience of over 100,000 each week through a combination of terrestrial radio broadcasts, live streaming media, and podcast shows. Listened to in 60 countries worldwide, TWIS reaches an international audience and regularly fields science questions on the air from listeners around the world. Streaming media is media that is continuously received by, and normally displayed to, the end-user whilst it is being delivered by the provider. ...
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In the six months following their entry into podcasting in June 2005, the show received over 300,000 unique IP downloads, enough to put them in the top 95th percentile of all podcast programs. TWIS continues to expand its listenership through innovative use of new media. Podcasting is the method of distributing multimedia files, such as audio or video programs, over the Internet using syndication feeds, for playback on mobile devices and personal computers. ...
Guests This Week in Science regularly interviews top scientists, technologists, and luminaries. Past interview include Columbia University physicist and author of The Elegant Universe Brian Greene, mechanical engineer and author of Notes from the Technology Underground William Gurstelle, NASA astrobiologist Jack Farmer; Harvard theoretical physicist Lisa Randall, popular science fiction author and futurist William Gibson, and author of the Mars Trilogy Kim Stanley Robinson. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory is a book by Brian Greene which introduces string theory and provides a comprehensive though non-technical assessment of the theory and some of its shortcomings. ...
Brian Greene Brian Greene (born February 9, 1963), is a physicist and one of the best-known string theorists. ...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an agency of the United States Government, responsible for that nations public space program. ...
Lisa Randall at Harvard University Lisa Randall (born 18 June 1962) is a well-known American particle physicist, and the most cited high-energy physicist in the period 1999 to 2004. ...
William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948, Conway, South Carolina) is an American-born science fiction author resident in Canada since 1968. ...
The Mars trilogy is a series of award-winning science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson, chronicling the settlement and terraforming of the planet Mars. ...
Kim Stanley Robinson at the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, August 2005 Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23, 1952) is an American science fiction writer, probably best known for his award-winning Mars trilogy. ...
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