Meet the ancestors
The Naked Scientists Podcast
Dr Chris Smith
4.6 • 958 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2013
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Hello, Hello and this week a poisonous problem for beard drinkers how to use lasers to make 3D images of distant objects and how ice age pottery reveals that we've always had a taste for fish. |
| 0:33.0 | Plus we will be heading to the cradle of mankind in South Africa to meet some of our earliest |
| 0:38.0 | human ancestors. |
| 0:39.2 | If you'd like to get in touch with us here at the naked scientist you can email studio at the |
| 0:44.3 | naked scientists dot com you can tweet at naked scientists or you can find us on |
| 0:49.4 | Facebook the naked scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. |
| 0:55.0 | And joining Hannah and me for a look at what's been making science |
| 1:06.0 | headlines this week are Lori Winkless from the National Physical |
| 1:09.3 | Laboratory. Hello Lori. |
| 1:10.5 | Hi guys. And we're also joined by Bibi Campaseo from Chemistry World magazine. |
| 1:15.4 | Hello, Bibi. |
| 1:16.4 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 1:17.4 | Now first up, Bibi, you have been looking out for beer drinkers. |
| 1:20.8 | This is something very close to my heart, but it turns out we might have been getting more |
| 1:23.7 | than we bargained for. |
| 1:24.7 | Yes, this is unpublished research that was presented this week at the ACS Spring Meeting, |
| 1:32.4 | and for those who are not familiar with it is the American Chemical Society. |
| 1:36.4 | They have two meetings a year and they're absolutely huge and this is one of the topics that caught |
| 1:41.2 | our attention because obviously again be a very interesting topic of |
| 1:46.3 | conversation for most of us. |
| 1:48.1 | It does seem to catch people's attention quite alike yes. |
| 1:50.5 | It does it does so basically there is an issue with the beer making process in that |
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