Archaeology
The Naked Scientists Podcast
Dr Chris Smith
4.6 • 957 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2008
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to this week's naked scientists with me Chris Smith |
| 0:15.0 | and also with Helen Scales. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello Helen. |
| 0:18.0 | Now in this week's show how scientists have found a better way to conquer allergies |
| 0:22.0 | like hay fever, and that's using a short course of |
| 0:23.8 | injections so a piece of research not to be sniffed at also you've heard of music |
| 0:27.8 | for your ears music to your ears but what about music for your heart scientists have |
| 0:31.7 | found that certain types of music |
| 0:33.0 | can be better for you than others and will be hearing what they are and also |
| 0:36.5 | researchers have uncovered what controls the way that certain things taste and |
| 0:40.3 | you're not going to like it but under certain circumstances it's all down to the |
| 0:43.8 | bacteria that live in your mouth yum and on that tasty note Helen. Thanks Chris |
| 0:48.7 | also this week we're looking at how science is helping archaeologists to dig into the past. |
| 0:53.6 | We'll be hearing how scientists have found out a bit more |
| 0:56.2 | about what went on when stone henge was first built |
| 0:58.8 | and what the DNA of animals and crops is telling scientists |
| 1:01.8 | about how humans domesticated plants and livestock. |
| 1:05.2 | We'll also be delving into the fate of the people who made the Nazca lines. |
| 1:08.6 | Now these are huge markings carved into the desert in South America over a thousand years ago. But what happened |
| 1:14.6 | to the people who made them and then disappeared? Well scientists now have |
| 1:18.3 | uncovered some clues and will be finding out what they were and what they |
| 1:21.8 | thought went on a bit later on in the show. |
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