Science On Top 14 - I Don’t Think The Rats Are Happy

So, we were a week late with this one. The planets aligned in a way that fucked everything up the previous week - I was incapacitated from lack of sleep, and Lucas had an emergency no show, so Pen and Ed decided to give it a miss. So we came back with a mixture of the previous and that week's news.

I'll be honest - I was less than impressed with the way I performed. This job's really taking it out of me...

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Topics:

Should pregnant women sleep on a particular side to avoid miscarriage?;
End of the sunspot cycle? A new Maunder Minimum? Will it offset global warming?;
Geysers on Enceladus , Saturn's icy moon, demonstrate that there must be a salty ocean beneath the ice;
How humans guided the evolution of dogs barking;
A new method for delaying the effects of snake bites;
A new group of people in Brazil who have never seen other humans. Whoa...;
Optogenetics - the use of light to switch on gene expression;

And finally, the space-bound orb-weaving spiders and their attempts to weave webs in almost zero gravity.

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Next week we are sansPenny as she's out of the state - lucky thing. We have a special guest, but it's gonna be a sausage fest...but there are some cool topics coming up!