Simulation Science: Living in The Matrix?

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

🗓️ 15 July 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This week, could we be living in The Matrix? We're talking about the power of computer simulations, and we're asking are we all living in one! Plus, in the news  - making diabetes treatment smarter; diagnosis by an electronic doctor - would you be comfortable with that? And the world's first robot that picks lettuces... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:38.4	Science and that is to say physics, medicine, nature, or space, time, the brain, life, the universe.
0:48.0	Hello this week, the power of computer simulations, and we're asking, are we all living inside one.
0:55.0	Plus in the news making diabetes treatment smarter,
0:58.3	diagnosis by an electronic doctor would you be comfortable with that?
1:02.1	And the world's first robot that can pick lettuces.
1:05.0	I'm Adam Murphy.
1:06.0	I'm Chris Smith and this is The Naked Scientists.
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1:17.0	First this week, people with diabetes cannot make enough of the hormone
1:23.8	insulin which controls blood sugar levels. In type 1 diabetes the body
1:28.1	cannot make any insulin at all and instead the hormone has to be injected
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