Q&A: Soy, Slingshots and Cyanide

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

🗓️ 4 February 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

What's a white hole? Why don't we use brain scans to diagnose mental health and why was cyanide Agatha Christie's poison of choice? All this and more as our panel of experts answer your questions. Joining Chris Smith this time are: Astronomy specialist Matt Bothwell, forensic toxicologist Lorna Nisbet, neuroscientist Camilla Nord and physiologist Sam Virtue... 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,
0:11.0	nature, or space, time, a brain, life, the universe.
0:15.0	Hello, welcome to the naked scientists.
0:17.0	I'm Chris Smith, and this is the show where we bring you the latest breakthroughs in science, technology and medicine.
0:24.4	This week it's Q&A time and we're going to explore how addictions begin, how do forensic
0:29.3	pathologists discover poisons in the body and you've heard of black holes but what's a white hole?
0:35.0	The Naked Scientist Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. Okay.
0:47.0	And with us to answer your science questions this week are a panel of people who include Matt Bothwell,
0:52.1	who's an astronomy specialist at the University of
0:54.3	Cambridge. What have you been up to Matt?
0:56.3	Over the last couple of weeks I've got very into 3D printing actually. So we have a 3D
1:00.3	printer now in the department so I've been busy
1:02.8	3D printing these nice models of galaxies which I'm
1:05.0	a model of a galaxy how on earth do you 3D print a galaxy?
1:08.0	You basically take an image right and then you just convert the brightness of the
1:11.2	image to the height of the 3D models you
1:13.2	end up with something that looks a bit like a relief map of a galaxy basically.
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