Moulding the Minds of Tomorrow
The Naked Scientists Podcast
Dr Chris Smith
4.6 • 958 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2016
⏱️ 56 minutes
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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, a brain, life, the universe. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello and welcome and this week it's back to school for most of the UK and also for us |
| 0:21.8 | naked scientists here in the studio as we don't our uniforms for a |
| 0:25.0 | lesson in the science of education. |
| 0:27.0 | Plus a new drug that could cure malaria with a single drop |
| 0:31.0 | and we find out what happened to the ice bucket challenge. |
| 0:34.1 | I'm Connie Orback. I'm Katani and this is the Naked Scientists. |
| 0:38.6 | The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. |
| 0:44.0 | 1.1. |
| 0:47.0 | First up, this week the UK government pledged to ban the use of microbeeds in |
| 0:57.2 | cleaning products and cosmetics such as toothpaste and facial scrubs by 2017. |
| 1:01.6 | Given that a single shower with a microbeed gel can result in a |
| 1:06.3 | hundred thousand plastic particles entering the ocean, the ban is aiming to |
| 1:10.5 | reduce the amount of plastic in our seas. |
| 1:13.5 | But what exactly are microbeeds? |
| 1:16.2 | What damage do they do? |
| 1:17.8 | And will the ban really make a difference? |
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