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Science and that is the same physics, medicine, nature, or space, time, the brain, life, the universe.

This week we bring you the best bits of 2016, from democracy and nature and the science of

dating to why it pays to look at the Lightside.

What a year it's been. I'm Georgia Mills and this is the Naked Scientists.

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Where to begin? It's always a tricky decision to make when there are 52 programs

and within them 500 interviews to choose from. But why not start with the heart?

Here's an interview Chris Smith did back in June when he put his ticker through its paces with an ECG or

electrocardiogram at Adam Brooks Hospital.

I'm James Rudd, I'm a consultant cardiologist at Adam Brooks Hospital in Cambridge.

And we are in the ECG recording department and we are going to record your ECG today.

So if you'd like to follow me, we will head through into the examination

room. This is Laura. She is a cardiac physiologist and she's going to be recording the ECG today for you.

Hi Laura.

Hi, Corin. So what do you want me to do?

What I'll need you to do is remove the clothes from your top half

so that I can get to your bare chest.

Okay, I'm down to my bare chest.

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