Flu Do You Think You Are?

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

🗓️ 24 September 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In 1918, Spanish flu wiped out more people than World War 1. Now, a century on, we're asking why this pandemic packed such a punch, where flu came from in the first place, and how flu vaccines are made. Plus, fossilised fats from the world's first animals, a look at the IgNobel prizes, genes linked to hypertension, and the computer game that gets kids into engineering... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.4	Hello.
0:04.4	Hello.
0:05.4	Welcome.
0:06.4	Science and that is the same physics medicine, space time the brain life the universe
0:16.2	hello this year marks the centenary of the Spanish flu the worst pandemic we've ever
0:21.1	encountered so this week we're looking at where flu
0:23.6	viruses come from how they evolve and what we can do to defend ourselves against
0:27.4	them. Plus in the news scientists find the fossilized fats from the earliest animal
0:32.1	life on earth. An Ignoble
0:33.7	Prize winner discusses the number of calories you get from cannibalism and we get
0:37.8	gaming all in the name of science. I'm Georgia Mills. I'm Chris Smith and this is the Naked Scientists.
0:44.3	The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by a bit it's about 4.5 billion years old and we've got evidence
1:02.1	that life started here pretty rapidly it was up and
1:05.1	running within about 500 million years but then things stayed very small very simple and some would say very boring for the next few billion years.
1:13.7	Everything was just microbes.
1:15.5	Then something special happened because around 600 million years ago,
1:19.9	large, complex, multicellular life as we know it suddenly appears in the fossil record.
1:25.0	But the question is, are these fossils the remains of animals, plants, or some other bizarre
1:31.6	evolutionary offshoot.
1:33.0	No one could tell from their appearance alone,
1:35.0	but now scientists in Australia have nailed it
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