This week The Science Hour team discuss diving mammals, growing fingertips and sniffing cancer. We were also joined by Upulie from @realscientists to talk DNA patenting and science communication! Check out the podcast below! Podcast: 16 June 2013. Continue reading
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Podcast: 9 June 2013
On the science hour this week, Sila and Tom and joined again by Charles, to talk fungi, brains, and a surprising amount of sphincters. Science! Check out the link below 🙂 via Podcast: 9 June 2013. Continue reading
The Science Hour podcast: 2 June 2013
On this week’s episode of The Science Hour, we discussed space, brain tumours, the genetics of intelligence and communication! Sila described the asteroid that flew by on Saturday, and Charles continued the space talk with some insight into the radiation on Mars.We had special guest PhD researcher Dr. Andy in the studio talking about his … Continue reading
The Science Hour podcast: 26 May 2013
Tom has been doing some research on how effective it is to judge people’s personalities just by looking at them (we know we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but how accurate is it?), as well as a brief newsflash on a potential way of supplying Australia’s oil demand… using algae! Sila discusses a … Continue reading
Health / Home / Technology
Are we heading for a genetic eutopia?
In the not too distant future, a society exists in which advanced genetic engineering determines the social status of a human being. Or so that’s what director Andrew Niccol portrayed 15 years ago in his blockbuster movie Gattaca. A play on the letters that represent the four DNA bases (G A T C), Gattaca depicts … Continue reading
Are you a supertaster?
Supertasters are people that have a superior sense of taste and experience all foods as vibrant flavours. Supertasters experience extreme taste and are sensitive to bitter, sour, sweet, salty and umami (savoury) foods. Non-tasters tend to experience foods as dulled down and not as intense. Approximately 25% of the population are supertasters, comprising 35% women … Continue reading
Does the number 7 taste funny to you?
Do you smell colours? Or taste numbers? You might have synesthesia. Synesthesia is a condition of ‘joined perception’, where people affected perceive one sense with another. The five senses that humans experience are touch, smell, sight, noise and hearing. People that experience synesthesia, known as synesthetes, can perceive one or more senses simultaneously. Some examples … Continue reading
Twins euthanized, sparking debate
Euthanasia is the practice of intentionally ending a life in order to relieve pain and suffering. On the 14th of December 2012, 45 year old Belgian twin brothers were euthanized under Belgian law. The brothers were born deaf and asked to be euthanized after finding out that they would soon go blind. The brothers could … Continue reading
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