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The Naked Scientists Podcast

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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

4.6957 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2008

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week the Naked Scientists go virtual! We'll be hearing how a new computer system can accurately gauge your age from a mugshot, we come face to face with the painting fool, a computer that can read - and then paint - your emotions, and we find out what's still lurking on your hard disc, even after you think you've wiped it. We also unveil Second Naked Scientists - our home in Second Life - and get stuck into a new molecular glue designed to replaces surgical stitches and staples. Plus, in Kitchen Science, Ben and Dave embark on a far from fruitless mission to charge an MP3 player with an... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0

It's science, but not as you know it, the naked scientists.

0:07.0

Hello and welcome to this week's naked scientists with me Chris Smith and also with Cat Arnie. Hello cat.

0:15.6

Hello.

0:16.6

Now in the program this week we've got a new self-adhesive tissue glue that could make stitches and staples a thing of the past.

0:23.2

We'll also be hearing why the 150 year old theory of why there are circles on a moth's wings

0:28.4

is actually wrong, and atomic billiards.

0:30.6

Scientists have managed to measure the force that's needed to drag

0:33.1

individual atoms and molecules around on a surface and they're saying it could be a big

0:37.2

breakthrough when it comes to making the next generation of nanom machines that's all

0:41.2

on the way cat.

0:42.2

Thanks Chris also this week we're looking at new technology

0:45.0

that's making life fun easier and safer for all of us.

0:48.0

We'll be hearing about a new system being pioneered in Australia

0:51.0

to work at how old you are from just your photograph, find out how it

0:54.4

fared on the naked scientist team. We'll also be meeting the computer that can read and then

0:58.6

paint your emotions and we'll be delving into a new world inside the internet.

1:03.4

It's called Second Life and Dave Taylor and Gordon Clark will be here to tell us all about it.

1:08.0

Plus, when you got rid of your last computer, did you delete everything from the hard drive?

1:13.0

Or at least, did you think you deleted everything from the hard drive?

1:16.0

Because the chances are that all of your personal details are still lurking there.

1:20.0

And if you know how, you can probably get that data back.

1:22.0

And we'll be talking to a forensic software expert who's called Graham Henley to find out how.

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