Bloody plastics, antibodies in cancer treatment, and how chocolate is good for you
The biologists dominate our correspondents this episode, with
stories on the use of antibodies in cancer treatment, what mice are
telling us about the imact of memories on our experience of events, and a
funky mechanism of UV light sensing in plants. It's been an exciting
few weeks for physics in the news, however, with Wolf and Chris guiding
you through stories from robotic hummingbirds to bleeding plastics.
Being this close to easter we couldn't resist a chocolate story, and
what do you know, it's good for you- as we tell you in our EUWhat. As an extra special treat we have an excerpt of a fascinating interview with cognitive scientist Daniel Casasanto (full interview to follow). Enjoy! Read more »
Having teased you with an excerpt in podcast 66, here is the full version of our interview with Sean Roberts.
We're one digit short of the number of the beast this week, as we reach
episode 66 of the EUSci podcast. Prepare to be amazed at quantum
computers inside diamonds, the stem cell research that could repair your
heart in the future, and at how wind turbines are NOT necessarily the
bird-blenders they are sometimes made out to be. Our discussion asks if
participants in medical research should be informed of incidental
findings related to their health, and we have some significant
information to impart in a great Feature interview by Chris featuring linguist Sean Roberts.
We tend to think about ideas, concepts and feelings as abstract
constructions that exist in our brains and are shared (more or less)
with everyone else on the planet. However this is not necessarily true.
In this special episode of the EUSci podcast, our producer Chris is
interviewing Daniel Casasanto, a cognitive scientist at the New School
For Social Research about how differences in language, culture and even
our bodies give rise to different ways of thinking about the world.
Novel treatments for stroke are in the offing this week as Alasdair
covers some exciting research, with Wolf representing the physical
sciences with a story about the origin of the moon's magnetic field. Our
intrepid newscasters have explosive stories on, amongst other things,
hog farms and nuclear fusion, and Jon looks at the phenomenon of
'relational violence' in movies on behaviour in women. If that wasn't
enough our discussion covers the intriguing question- how dead would you
want to be before you donated your organs? Enjoy, and don't forget to
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