The Top 11 Science Stories of 2008... Merry TWIS-mas!!!

Science in the White House!, Jellyfish Rule, Brain Reading, This Week in the End of the World, Penile Precautions, and This Week in World Robot Domination Interview with David Calikins.

Sperm Don't Lie, We Will Remember, Fishy Waterways, Historical Starlight, Super-Tough Mother, Secrets of a Killer, and Much More!

Genetic Questions, Fungal Frolics, Turtle Soup, Fighting Fat, Driving Me Crazy, TWiWorld Robot Domination, Behavior Issues, and TWiThe End of the World.

Miracles Discussed, Flies Gone Wild, Mammoth Operations, To the Birds, Sweet Space, Planetary Discovery, Madness, Genetic Explanations, and Learning to Speak.

Climate Change Denial, Microbes in the Sea, Microbes in your Gut, The Weird From Washington, TV Sadness, Bleach Works, Wide-Hipped Women, Anti-Matter Xplosion, and Rocky CO2

Cooties, City Ants And Traffic, Bacterial Brilliance, Memory Storage, Half A Bird Brain, Diamonds From tequila, Robot Domination of Sorts, and Dark Matters.

It's Election Day! Vote For Science!, Tunnel To The Sun, Antimatter in Outer Space, Find of Fungal Nature, Water on Mars, Electricity on Titan, An Ancient iceman, AND the Weird From Washington w/ Dr. Michael Stebbins.

Flax Oil No-No, Martian Methane, MacGyver Rays, Gamma Waves For Kids, Self-Tazering, Everyday Is Halloween, and Interview With Ben Crockett From BirdPost.com

Monkey Brains, Human Brains, Hubble, Migrating Dead Peeps, Nutritional Conspiracies Abound, and the Weird From Washington With Dr. Michael Stebbins.

Space the Final Frontier, Nobel and Ignobel Prizes, Intelligent Machines, Jesus Sharks, Short Term Memory Loss, Why Justin's Working On His Pecs, Warning For Bald Men, Girls Gone Math, and Another Bisphenol-A Study

Justin Takes a Handout, This Week in the End of the World, Say No To Pets, Cosmic Soap Bubble, This Week in World Robot Domination, Fans For SIDS, Blood For Downs, and The Weird From Washington.

Moon Dust, Stem Cells, Wrestling With Herpes, Flu News, Dino Lungs, This Week in Mars, and an interview w/four science festival organizers from around the globe.

The Best Darn Disclaimer Ever, Leaching Plastic Problems, GM Benefits, Spore Launching, Primordial Fish Finds, Beneficial Bacteria, This Week in The End of The World, The Baghdad Surge, and The Weird From Washington with Dr. Michael Stebbins.

LHC and Minion Kids, Dino Luck, Market Research, Paper Crumpling Complaint, Scary Bacteria, Boom! Gamma Rays, Sumpin' Like Us, and Interview w/ Douglas Erwin author of Extinction.

This Week in the End of the World?, Body Obsession and Being Positive, Junk to Thumbs, Hello LHC!, Girls and Science, Bacteria and Rattlesnakes, Water Bears in Space, and Watchful Helicopters

windmill batting averages, cellular reprogramming, fly acrobatics, hairy ears, this week in the end of the world, and interview w/ Dr. P. Michael Conn and James V. Parker about animal research and the war between scientists and activists.

Blood, Brains, and the Universe, TWIStributors Phone and File, Toxoplasma Gondii (Oh No!), Horny Beetles, and Artificial Enhancement Galore.

Bike Seats For Men, Man-made Photosynthesis, Nanotubes or The Hulk?, Dr. Video-Master, This Week in the End of the World, Beer Goggled, and an interview w/ Dr. Sean Carroll about the physics of time.

PomPom Danger, LHC FTW!, Mama's Sick, Invisbility redux, Size Does Matter, Winning Plays, The Weird From Washington, Australia Bashing, News You Can Use, Chicken Feather Walls, and Much More

Solar Powered Hydrogen, Cellphone Rant, Alzheimer's Cure?, Run Faster, Get Tested, Particles For Paint, & Interview w/ Dr. Leonard Susskind re: Black Holes

Justin's NASA rant, Venus Alive, Martian Assault, Lab On A Chip, The Northern Lights, Enzyme Alert, Drunk Wisdom, Parasite Biomassive, Orangutan Aspirin, Shree Trews, & The Weird From Washington W/Dr. Michael Stebbins

Microbes rule, Bronze Men, The End of the World, World Robot Domination, Fishing Ban Works, Antarctic rocks, Bonding, Volcanoes Kill, and much, much more.

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LHC Won't Suck, Handy British Neandertals, Robo-Disco Attack!, End of the World, Jonathan Calls, Old Sand Clues, Bye-bye Birdie, Silly-Con, A Weighty Hormone, Squirrelly Sex, Croco Hears A Who, Crazy Ass Frogs, Chemical Similarities, Reducing Retardation, Hungry Hungry Black Hole, and Superplane!

Meteoric Rise Of Life, Icy Mars, TWIWorld Robot Domination, Coffee, Coffee, Coffee!!!, How Much for the Kidney?, Eyes to the Brain, and The Weird From Washington w/ Dr. Michael Stebbins

Art of Painting Barn Swallows, Cuddling Cuttlefish, Influential Mommy Diet, Shaking Up Antarctica, Simplifying the Human Brain, The Serotonin Factor, Hot Babies!, Following People, and Interview w/ Science Writer Carl Zimmer

World Science Festival Redux, Gut Biotics, Cats and Dolphins, Methane Wishes, Monkey Brains!, Go Dula Go!, Salty Mars, NanoSponge, The Weird in Washington w/ Dr. Michael Stebbins.

Kirsten's on her own!, Interview with Dr. Gary Marcus, author of Kluge, and The Weird From Washington with Dr. Michael Stebbins, plus a brief rundown of science headlines.

Insect Cellulo-phones, Human Isolation, T. Chicken, Lizard Speciation, Abstract Math, This Week in World Robot Domination, and Interview with Science Writer, George Johnson, about The 10 Most Beautiful Experiments.

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Who's That Co-Host?!?, This Week in World Robot Domination, Scientist Drugs, Co-Ed Classrooms, Mind Memory Slots, Black Hole Activation, and Super Scopes.

Lungless Frogs, Mammoth Deaths, Poopy DNA, Non-Automotive Hybrids, Old Yoga, Hungry Milky Way, Finding Higgs, The Weird From Washington, Quakin' Laptops, Danger-nastics, 5th Graders Are Smart.

Plastic Oceans, Love You Long Time?, Stopping the Collider, Birthing Genes, Moon Blocks, Headlines!!!, and Interview w/ Scott Sigler, Infected Author of Infected.

Lemur Fingers, The Fastest Dinosaur, The Ant Farm, Farming Algae, Sperm News, This Week in World, Robot Domination, BigDog Revisited, The Weird From Washington, Women Want, and Space Tid-Bits.

Island Cretins, New Blood, Aussie Bashing Banned, Rugged Face of Mars, Squirrel Stress, World Robot Domination, Bird News, Fungus Sex, Great Symbiosis Batman, Cleanin' up Nuclear, and a Planetary Breath.

Technology Saves TWIS, Death Ahead!, More Hobbit Controversy, Whiskey Cleaners, Swimming in the Sea, Media and Racism, Hybrid Hubbub, Where You At Krill?, Nuke Cleanup, Got Plutonium?, Stoney Bacteria, RNA-na-nana-na-na-nanaaa, Aging Views, TWiWRD.

Literal Eye-Tooth, Genetic Jimmy-Hat, TWIStributors!, TWIWorld Robot Domination, Darwin Was Wrong?!?, Human Descent, Octopus?, The Truth About Boys And Girls, and Interview w/ Absinthe Expert, Ted Breaux.Thanks to FutureGen for the transcript.(continued)Justin: Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer! The following hour of programming does not necessarily represent the views or opinions at the University of California, Davis KDVS [...]

Drugs For Animals, Stemming Diabetes, Electrons On Film, Invisi-Rings, Viking Fashion, and The Weird From Washington w/ Dr. Mike Stebbins.

Is It Love?, Hot Or Not, Barnacles Rock, Social Monitors, Rapunzel et al, Predicting the Pres, Coffee Sniffer, The Weird From Washington, Start Eating Purple!

Kirsten Moves, No More Tears, Bacteria Pop, All Ears, Chirping Tale, Papal Proclamation, Problem With Semen, Cloning Tricycle, Making DNA, Creation "Science", Baby Bathing Badness, Children and Medicine, T-Ray Pictures

Paper Airplanes From Space, Attack of the Clones, Bloody Switcheroo, Crater Pondering, Great Space Super-Collider, This Week in the End of the World, Listen To Your Kids, DNA Mystery, and The Weird From Washington With Dr. Michael Stebbins.

Genes For Lupus, Only The Lonely, TWin Parasites, Old Becomes New, Superhuman Sight, They Fear Us, Eat It Up Yum, Skull For sale, TWin World Robot Domination.

Agression = Sex?, Genetics of Disease, Do You Hear What I Hear?, Superconducting Silicon, Fruit Fly Glow, World Robot Domination, The Weird From Washing ton, TWIStribution, Giant Earths and more...

Happy New Year! As 2007 leaves us, we reminisce about the past year with our Top 11 Science Stories of 2007. Also, we review last year's predictions, and make new ones for 2008.

Merry TWISmas one and all!, Mars Attacked, Mars Alive?, Tracking Santa, Baby Newton, Animal Antics, Whale Tale, MUSIC!!!, World Robot Domination - Power, Tonedeaf Brains, Birds Who Sing Together, More Whales, Animal Discoveries, Stem Cells Arise!

Samurai Mouse, Environmental Willpower, Australia v. Japan, Smokin the Mean Bud?, Now Featuring Magma, Brain Dynamo, Sleepy Storage, The Weird from Washington, and TWiStributor Time

Justin Gets Sick and Quits, Triclocarban and Testosterone, Belief is in the Brain, Mooning Over Saturn, Rest Up, Genetic Bi-Sexuality, & Interview w/ Chris Impey re: Astrobiology

Battle of the Brains, Just Like Gorillas, Dakota Duck, Doggie Smarts, Honey Help, Forest Frass, More Foreskin Ranting, Hot Air Injection, Sperm Power, Tree Climbing, Lively Titan?

Turkey Coma Lies!, Piggybacking on Physics, Pacific Invasion, Chinese Lunarganda, Indigenipeoplification, Perceptual Mismatch, Neural Guide Gene, and Interview w/ NASA scientists Drs. Claire L. Parkinson and  Michael King

Thanksgiving Thanks, This Week in the End of the World, Climatia All Around, Whatchya Gonna Do Bout it?, Is an Air Sac a Lung?, Reproductive Girls, Surfing the Light Fantastic, The Weird From Washington, Sugar Magnolia, Whale of a Japanese Tale, RoboMoth, and Trapping Rainbows

Who Talks More?, Who's Being Illogical?, Why's Math Good?, Bring In the Brains, Saving Spinal Cords, Cosmic Inference, Robo-Humans?, and Interview w/ Dr. Don Prothero on Evolution. Buy our World Robot Domination t-shirts at www.twis.org.

TWISclaimer!, Fuel Fight?, Chinese in Space, Sod It, Olympic Doping, Excercise Is Power, Pictures Made Real, This Week in World Robot Domination, The Weird From Washington, TWIStributors, Brainbow, and Little TWIS Bytes

Justin Allen Poe and The Science Raven, Three-Eyed Frogs, Rat Brains, Neandertal Style, Dino Footprints, Plastic Bodies, Don't Think About Not Thinking About It, & Interview w/ Ian Ayres, Author of Super Crunchers

Kirsten's at a Conference, Justin's Worried About Bacteria, Robots Really Are Revolting, And Watson Has An Issue, Along With The Weird From Washington w/ Dr. Michael Stebbins.

Supplementing Arsenic, Chocolate is in the blood, Sex and TWiWorld Robot Domination, Little Giants, New Old Big, Lap Dance Luck, Vitamin Bleb, Gas Eating Bacteria, Did You Hear?, Healthy CO, A Worm's Life, Flava-flavonoids, Bad A** Plant,  Sorry No Interview, But We Have New T-Shirts and CDs Available (Go to www.twis.org for details).

Appendi-bug-house, See the Station!, Relativity Easy, Danger From Space, Plastic Steel, This Week in The End of The World (Justin gets ranty), The Wierd From Washington, TWIStributor Trio, Magnetovision, and Spicy Pain Relief.

So, what would it feel like at the center of the earth, and how long would it take to get there in free-fall? We weigh in on a hypothetical question that has many people stumped, and our listeners speak the mathematical truths. Also, an interview with mathematician and actress, Danica McKellar. We are so mathy [...]

Hobbittses, Passing On the Changes, To Mars Alice, Sperm Or Death?, Dino Discoveries, The Weird From Washington, and Interview w/ Dr. James Watson (yes, THE Watson of Watson and Crick... don't look so surprised)

Men Wash Your Hands!, Men Are The Secret To Longevity! Sick and Lonely Truth, What is Intelligence Anyway, Burning Water?!?, Protein Laundry, Retrovirus Revival?, Interview w/ Dr. Rolf Halden re: Environmental Toxicology.

What Good Is Conservation?, Non-Native Danger, Bee Buzz, Fishy Mixup, Hearty Sleep, Cancer Scan, Making Mosquitos Less Sweet, The Weird In Washington w/ Dr. Michael Stebbins, Trio of TWIStributors, and Shout-Outs!!!

Sorry 'Bout the Sound Quality, Burning Man Recap, Gene For Tall People, NanoMagnets For Art, Water Everywhere, Mens Like Pretty, God and Psychology, Bivalve Survival, TWIS StudyTips, & Interview w/ Dr. Lawrence Krauss re: String Theory and Dark Stuff

Dark Matters, Super-fast Light, Losing Memory, Tasting Gut, Release the Lake, Plankton 4 Earth, Birdy Brooding, & Interview w/ Dr. Al Harrison, Psychologist and Author of Stardust: Cosmic Visions in Science, Religion, and Folklore.

Kill Acne Kill, Cryo-Microbes, Kirsten Questions Cylons, Justin Gets Heavy, A Question of Glass, Leakey Africa, The Weird From Washington w/ Dr. Michael Stebbins, TWIStributors, Living Bones, The Wine Effect, and More...

Hwang Just Didn't Notice, Hurts So Good, Feverish Hormones, Dead Zone, Penguin Fun, Smartie-tangs, Baby-talk Blocks, TWIS-bytes, Interview w/ Chris Mooney, author of 'Storm World' DIGG Unicornmuseum.org Vote 4 TWIS @ www.podcastawards.com

Physician Mission, Placebo Brain, Caffeinated Joggers, Keta-what?, Ummm... Drugs, Word Power, Hot Snails, Squid Love, Droppin' the Deep, Crude Death, The Weird From Washington w/ Dr. Michael Stebbins, TWIStributor, TWin The End Of The World. Vote for us in the Podcast Awards!!! http://www.podcastawards.com

Space Shuttle Spring Clean, Placebo Addicts, Ptero-tumble?, Super-flood, Nano-rainbow, Sticky Nature, CircumUSA, Sci-fi Fingerprinting, Icy Charon, w/ Interview w/ Geobiologist, Dr.Hope Jahren

Justin Talks Girl Talk, Sleeping Sickness, Spacey Fashion, Watery Gas, Supernovas Suck, This Week in World Robot Domination, The Weird From Washington with Dr. Michael Stebbins, TWIStributors Times 3, Stripping by Numbers, Viral Attacks

Site of Resistance, Sweet Pumpkin Stimulation, Geodesy Nice And Easy, Tasty Nuts For Tits, Discussing Cosmic Rays, TWIS Bytes, Interview w/ Dr. James L. Gould, author of Animal Architects, And Nominate Us for Podcast Awards!

This Week in Kitty Katz, Video Vulnerabilities, Swappin' genomes, World Robot Domination, Stem Cells, The Weird From Washington, Bouncin' Universe, Froozen Babies, Nanotubular!, Prion Problems, HIV Dreamin'

Disclaiming the Meaning of it All, CERN Scheduling, Restoring All Vision, Blind Recall, Interview w/ Ian Flitcroft re: Journey By Starlight, Interview w/ Laura McNeil of Seed Magazine re: Science Literacy, Nano Nono, Robo Zoo, Synthesizing Revolution, Genetic Fixings, TWIS Bytes

Justification For Justin, Musical Brains, Black Hole Quandry, Real Virtual, Re-Growing Hairing, Genetic Infiltration, The Weird From Washington w/ Dr. Michael Stebbins, Sweet Plastic, Poll-nation, TWIS-Bytes

Announcements!, Break-up Boobies, Justin's Science Factoids, Humanizing Monkeys, Space Station Shenanigans, Physics Gets Heavy, Fossilized Suffering, & Interview W/ Dr. Bjorn Brembs re: Free Will and Fruit Flies

Penile Pessimism, Just Like Daddy, Electric Blue Lobster Boogaloo, B-B-B-Bird Brains, Giganto-Bird-o-Saurus, Race To The Chromosome, The Weird From Washington w/ Dr. Mike Stebbins, TWiWorld Robot Domination, Martian Oceans

Fruit-Fly Fountain, Cellular Reprogramming, Robot Heal Thy Self!, Tesla Smiles, Japan Versus Nature, Flowery News, Mushy Mushroom, Mammoth Death, and Interview w/ Dr. Andrew Feinberg re: Epigenetics.

Ancient Murder, Solving Modern Puzzles, Deleting Age, Cyclone Climate Control, Flax Magic, Natal Vaccination, The Weird in Washington w/ Dr. Michael Stebbins, This Week in World Robot Domination, TWIStributor, and The Nitty Gritty

Funding Matters, Know Knuckle-Dragging, Baby Rules, Mmm... Smoking's Bad M'Kay, Mouse Livin', & Interview w/ Birdsong Expert Dr. Don Kroodsma