The Best of the BA Festival

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Natural Sciences, Science, Science Radio, Naked Scientists, Health & Fitness, Engineering, Medicine, Technology, Life Sciences

4.6 • 958 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2007

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This week we're bringing you the very best bits from the BA Festival of Science in York. We discover a chewing gum that dissolves in the wash but still keeps your breath fresh, get some good news about cancer and find out why jogging may not be good for heart patient recovery if it's near a busy road. Also, Chris risks his health to find out about plague control in 17th Century York, and chocolate may be nicer than it is naughty, as Roger Corder explains how it could be good for your health. Out and about in the festival, Meera explores the psychology of commuter cooperation during the 2005... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	Stripping down science, the naked scientist.
0:05.8	Hello, welcome to this week's naked scientist with me Chris Smith and also with Dr.
0:09.9	Katai, hi, can?
0:10.9	Hello?
0:11.9	Now on the way this week we've got an end to sticky chewing gum because
0:14.8	scientists have invented a recipe for washable gum. Also mobile phones and the
0:18.9	oral contraceptive are both getting a clean bill of health from a health
0:21.8	perspective this week and also
0:23.4	researchers have pinpointed the genes that are linked to making lonely people feel ill.
0:27.6	Oh, plus we're also trying to solve this ornithological conundrum.
0:32.2	The different birds always seem to know what they are.
0:34.0	They don't get confused.
0:35.0	The budgets don't try and make with the canaries and the finches don't
0:38.0	don't shack up with the canaries.
0:39.0	How on earth do cuckoos go off and spend a life as a cuckoo
0:42.0	behaving like a cuckoo and finding another
0:43.9	cuckoo to mates with. Indeed how does a cuckoo know that it's a cuckoo?
0:48.3	We're going to find out later in the program and also we're stepping back in time to meet the people that are bringing the
0:53.8	plague back to life in York. The plague I believe is punishment for the sins of the
0:59.0	people of this city. This is a very rich city full of very idle fellows who spend their time carousing and drinking in the taverns and gambling down great blame.
1:07.5	What about in the 17th century, Jane?
1:09.5	In the 17th century it will be pretty much the same.
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