Dec 10, 2006
Posted in Chemistry, Environment, Science, podcast at 11:58 am by David Bradley -- Click to comment
More than forty research papers highlight the effects of emerging contaminants on human health and the environment in the December 2006 issue of the journal Environmental Science & Technology, among their number are reports on nanoparticles, pharmaceuticals, disinfectant by-products, and fluorochemicals.
“It might be tempting to define emerging contaminants as one thing or following certain criteria but it’s not that simple,” says the journal’s guest editor Jennifer Field of Oregon …
Nov 27, 2006
Posted in Chemistry, Health, podcast at 3:03 pm by David Bradley -- 3 Comments; add yours
I, like many with a chemistry training, have on occasion dismissed the more mystical-seeming strands of non-western medicine. The origins of homeopathy, for instance, relied on literal Bible bashing of glass phials to ensure the infinitely dilute remedies would work. Which of course western medicine says is ludicrous. Herbal medicine on the other hand needed the industrial age to extract its active ingredients and bring us the likes of aspirin from the sap of the …
Oct 6, 2006
Posted in Sex, podcast at 6:00 pm by David Bradley -- Click to comment
Scientists in Canada have used a close relative of night-vision goggles to watch women and men become sexually aroused while watching videos. Their study reveals that arousal happens in women just as rapidly as it does in men.
“Comparing sexual arousal between men and women, we see that there is no difference in the amount of time it takes healthy young men and women to reach peak arousal,” says Irv Binik …
Oct 4, 2006
Posted in Science, podcast at 12:19 pm by David Bradley -- Click to comment
Two books long overdue for review here, have a more than nanoscopic layer of dust on their covers having sat atop of a pile of other books long overdue for review here that has grown systematically to more than a metre in height. Not the most poetic of intros to a review of scientific poetry but then I haven’t got all day to wax too lyrical.
Art Stewart reckons communication problems are significant obstacles to science …
Sep 29, 2006
Posted in Science, podcast at 12:00 am by David Bradley -- 2 Comments; add yours
I just can’t get you outta my head…is the usual thought when an irritatingly catchy pop song gets stuck on loop in your brain for days on end. A start-up company in East Anglia reasoned that this catchiness might be put to good use in helping people quickly learn a foreign language. Or, at the very least, a couple of dozen keyphrases that will help them get by while on holiday or a business trip …
Sep 25, 2006
Posted in Chemistry, Environment, podcast at 8:53 am by David Bradley -- Click to comment
An incredibly small item in Saturday’s Times announced that a Voluntary Reporting Scheme - established by DEFRA - in the UK to record and assess the risks posed by nanoparticles has been created. Scientists have welcomed the announcement, apparently. More likely, they are rather peeved that yet another layer of bureacracy has been added to their workload.
According to the paper, “Little is known of the potential risk to health by the creation through nanoengineering of …
Sep 22, 2006
Posted in Science, podcast at 12:20 pm by David Bradley -- Click to comment
Welcome to the first Geordie Boffin Podcast from Sciencebase. This irregular and irreverent podcast will bring you audible reporting from the sciences. For most sciencebase readers this will most likely be your first chance to hear my dulcet tones (and those of my wife) as well as a little effected guitar playing for the intro!
You can play the sound file by using the media player built-in to …
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