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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

🗓️ 25 February 2014

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Norovirus, the winter vomiting bug, affects 1 million people each year in the UK. But what is it, and how can you best protect yourself? Plus, in the news, how stress hormones depress the stock market, brain training that can improve vision on the baseball field, a new biological marker to diagnose those at risk of depression and artificial growth factors to speed up wound healing... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	And the Hello,
0:21.0	welcome to the Naked Scientists with me Chris Smith and also with Cat Arnie. Hello and this week we're taking a closer look at Norovirus.
0:25.2	Not too close though, it's the so-called winter vomiting bug which affects up to 1 million people
0:29.8	in the UK every year.
0:31.6	Plus in the news, the growth factors that could help wounds heal
0:34.8	more quickly and the stress hormones that might be affecting the stock market.
0:38.7	The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk.
0:45.0	And each week we also pose you a scientific teaser and because we're talking
0:54.8	norovirus this week we thought we'd ask you if a norovirus was scaled up to be
1:00.6	the size of a grapefruit, how big would the corresponding person it was going
1:06.2	to infect actually have to be?
1:09.6	You'd like to speculate then the email address is Chris at the Naked Scientist.com and the
1:15.5	Twitter address is at naked scientists. First up this week Cambridge scientists
1:20.9	have discovered that chronic stress makes people
1:24.0	much less likely to take risks which could have a depressing effect on the
1:27.8	stock market.
1:28.8	John Coates is from the Judge Business School and is with us to tell us about the study he's done.
1:33.2	Hello John.
1:34.2	Hello.
1:35.2	Why are you doing this?
1:36.2	Well, I'm a former trader myself.
1:37.8	I worked on Wall Street for about 13 years and I really had a strong hunch while working there during some periods of financial turmoil
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