Evolving molecules, stem cells and press officers
There are entities in this world that do not believe evolution. But
it doesn't really matter, it's happening anyway, and as Steph tells us
this week, even synthetic molecules are getting in on the act. Our
discussion features the delicate relationship between researchers and
their press officers, and our exciting feature is an excerpt of an
interview by Alasdair with stem cell researcher Prof. Bruno Peault.
Of
course the usual goodies are here too- including news on the
earthquake-inducing effects of dams and a possible alternative to
graphene. Oh, and there's someting about bees, too.
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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.
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