Fabulous Fabrics and Nifty Knitting

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

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week, looking for a new hobby? We're exploring the science of handicrafts, including why knitting boosts wellbeing, the first textiles from 27,000 years ago, and the project that's knitting human tissue to make replacement blood vessels. Plus, in the news, novel insights into who gets severe COVID and what might cause Long COVID, the WHO arrive in China to probe for the origins of the pandemic, and the snakes that tie themselves in knots to climb trees... 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	Hello, welcome to the naked scientist,
0:18.0	the show where we bring you the latest breakthroughs in science, technology,
0:22.0	and medicine, and that's with me Chris Smith and
0:24.0	me Eva Higginbotham coming up new insights into who gets severe COVID and
0:28.8	what might cause long COVID. The WHO arrive in China to probe for the origins of the pandemic and the snakes that tie themselves into knots to climb trees.
0:38.0	And also this week looking for a new hobby we are exploring the science of handicraft, including why knitting boosts well-being the first
0:44.8	textiles from 27,000 years ago and the project that's knitting human tissue to make repair patches.
0:50.7	The Naked Scientist Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk.
0:55.0	UK.
0:57.0	First this week the coronavirus pandemic continues to paralyze countries across the world
1:09.2	and the UK has nearly double the number of patients in hospital now compared with last March when the outbreak began and last week saw over 1,500 people die on a single day.
1:21.0	The bizarre thing about COVID-19 is that some people get off
1:24.9	scot-free while others have a very rough time indeed and symptoms that can
1:29.2	persist for months after the virus has been cleared from the body.
1:33.0	But could clues as to why this happens and to whom
1:36.2	be present in the way the immune system responds to the virus
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