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Up To Date | Nobel Prizes and Electrical Nerve Regeneration

Inquiring Minds

Inquiring Minds

Female Host, Critical Thinking, Society & Culture, Neuroscience, Interview, Science, Social Sciences

4.4848 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

This week: We recap the 2018 Nobel Prizes and look at a study exploring a new way to use electrical stimulation to regenerate nerves.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

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0:00.0

It's Friday, October 12th, 2018, and you're listening to Up to Date on Inquiring Minds.

0:07.6

I'm Indravis Gontas.

0:08.8

I'm Kishore Harri.

0:09.8

Now, that's a voice I've been heard for a little bit.

0:12.5

Yeah, listeners, in case you hadn't noticed, I hope you have.

0:15.4

I've been out for the last six weeks or so.

0:17.7

I just had a, I made a new human being.

0:20.5

An entire human being? Yep,

0:22.5

her name is Vica. Oh, congratulations. Thanks. But now I'm back and excited to dive back in.

0:28.8

Okay, so where do you want to start? Well, I guess there was some big news. It was like one of my

0:32.8

favorite weeks and science of the year just last week. You mean the beginning of autumn?

0:37.9

Or no, you probably mean the Nobel Prize.

0:39.6

Yeah, I mean when you're waiting by the phone at 3 a.m.

0:42.0

And, well, mine didn't ring, but I don't know.

0:43.7

I wasn't waiting by the phone.

0:45.1

I don't know what you think of my scientific background, but no one was calling me.

0:49.5

This was an interesting set of Nobel Prizes because even the economics one touches on science this year.

0:56.4

So where do you want to start?

0:58.1

Choose any of them, except peace.

1:00.5

We're not talking about peace.

1:01.4

Yeah, we're definitely not talking about peace.

1:03.1

I mean, I guess we have to mention the fact that a woman won the Nobel Prize for physics

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