Can Science Mavericks Save the World?

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6 • 958 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This week, we're exploring the end of the world. From robotic AI takeovers to global floods, when it comes to the extinction of our species, is science really set up to predict or prevent such events? Plus, how gutbugs might be key to keeping healthy for longer, a holodeck for flies and why Pythagoras was beaten to his own theorem. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.0	Hello.
0:04.0	Hello.
0:05.0	Welcome.
0:06.0	Science.
0:09.0	And that is the same physics, medicine, nature, or space, time, brain, life, the universe.
0:15.0	This week how your gut bugs are linked to healthy aging,
0:19.0	virtual reality becomes a reality for a fish and how scientists have solved a 3,700-year-old
0:26.8	mathematical mystery scratched into a clay tablet. Plus can science prevent
0:32.0	catastrophe and the end of the earth?
0:34.4	Hello, I'm Chris Smith and this is The Naked Scientists.
0:38.0	The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co.
0:42.5	UK.
0:43.5	And up first, as is customary here on the naked scientists, a look at this week's breaking news stories and first this week over the next 40 years or so,
0:57.2	scientists are predicting that the elderly population in developed countries is going to increase by about 350 fold and that will
1:04.5	place a very significant burden on health care. But can we help people to age
1:09.3	better and to remain more independent into their older age.
1:12.8	According to Emory University's Daniel Kalman, the answer is yes, and that's with the help of the
1:18.5	right bacteria in the intestine.
1:21.4	He's been studying a kind of worm called C
1:23.7	Elegans which either did or did not have gut bacteria that were producing a class of
1:29.1	chemicals called indoles. Worms that did have the indols didn't live longer, but they did age much better than
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