Are any viruses good for you?

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2012

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Has all the air in the world been breathed before? Are any viruses beneficial to health? Can naked farts transmit diseases? You set the agenda in this Naked Scientists Question and Answer show in which we also discover how Inuit cope without fruit and veg, whether muscles can become cancerous and how long before we can teleport to work. Plus, reproducing Alzheimer's disease in a dish, self-distilling vodka, magnetic soap to cleanse the parts other soaps can't reach, and what magic mushrooms do to the brain... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	Stripping down science
0:07.0	the naked scientists. Hello, it's Sunday the 29th of January 2012.
0:25.0	Welcome to the Naked Scientist. I'm Chris Smith and also with me this week is Dave Ansel.
0:29.0	Hello Dave.
0:30.0	Hello. And Cat, Arnie, Hello Cat.
0:32.0	Hello. Hello.
0:33.0	Now this week we're answering your science questions for you, including,
0:36.0	is Air that smells infectious?
0:39.0	We'll find out.
0:40.0	Why is it hard to make a steamy window that you've written on with a finger fog up again in future?
0:47.0	And how do Eskimos manage without their five a day of fruit and veg?
0:51.0	Plus we'll also hear how magic mushrooms affect your brain and about a magnetic soap that can
0:56.7	be controlled to clean the parts that other detergents cannot reach.
1:00.9	And I'll be showing you a neat trick to reveal how ropes take the strain.
1:04.0	To try this out you need two length of cotton and two small bottles of water.
1:07.0	All will be revealed shortly.
1:08.0	So if you want to have a go at that, we'll be telling you what to do.
1:12.0	Meanwhile if you have any questions or
1:13.9	comments for us here's how you can get in touch. Tweet at naked
1:17.5	scientists you can also write on our Facebook page that's at Facebook
1:20.5	dot com slash the naked scientists or you can drop us in email list Chris
1:24.7	at the Naked Scientist.com.
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