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The Mr Science Show

Your weekly prescription of popular science in a social context. Check out www.mrscienceshow.com for more info.

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13:16

Tanneries and water - meandering through Morocco

The Mr Science Show ·

2008/07/30

Morocco is a hot, dry place. We were lucky enough to visit the town of Marrakech last week, and apart from being stunning to look at, it was 40 degrees and chaotic! This latest post is not meant to be a travel blog but instead we are going to take a look at some of the science from this most recent trip abroad.You will also here some commentary from the local lads on Australia, east and west coast America, and north and south England, and some of the sounds of Marrakech.

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05:04

The 118118 Challenge

The Mr Science Show ·

2008/07/07

118118 is a directory enquiries phone number in the UK that has recently expanded to "answer any question you put to us, no matter how big or small." So we thought we might test them out with some of the unsolved questions from our show, and then some maths.

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12:33

Exhibition Design, where art and science meet

The Mr Science Show ·

2008/06/20

Exhibition design is not a career that the mathematically inclined tend to think about, let alone pursue. This podcast accompanies the career interview in issue 47 of Plus. Barry Phipps is the first interdisciplinary fellow with the Kettle's Yard gallery in Cambridge. His remit is to develop projects of an interdisciplinary nature, to find the common ground between things. This week, Plus talks to Barry about breaking down the barriers between artists and scientists and creating greater dialogue

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04:37

Science of Eurovision

The Mr Science Show ·

2008/05/23

It is one of my favourite times of year, and I'm not even European.The Eurovision Song Contest to Australians is a strange mix of bad 80's music, songs about "joy", "love" and "unity" (it's a good drinking game to take a shot every time one of those words are said), amazingly good looking hosts with amusing English skills, scantily dressed Eastern Europeans and reality TV winners from Western Europe. For the first time in my life, living in the UK I get a chance to vote for the winner and watch it

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26:03

The Enigma Machine

The Mr Science Show ·

2008/05/12

The Enigma machine was once considered unbreakable, and the cracking of the "unbreakable code" by the allies changed the course of World War 2. This week on the podcast we talks to Nadia Baker from the Enigma Project about the history of codes and code-breaking, why the Enigma machine was considered unbreakable, the mathematics behind codes, and how it was finally cracked. The Enigma Project travels all over the United Kingdom and abroad, visiting over 100 schools and organisations, reaching over

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11:44

Maths in the Movies

The Mr Science Show ·

2008/04/30

Much of my recent work has been involved with understanding the maths used in movie production and in how mathematics and mathematicians are portrayed on film.I recently attended the mathematics film festival Film3 — maths at the movies at the Edinburgh International Science Festival, and Plus Magazine (where I work) is running a series of stories on maths in the movies in conjunction with this.

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Article in G Magazine

The Mr Science Show ·

2008/04/25

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04:53

Recycling Condoms

The Mr Science Show ·

2008/03/31

Recently, a Mr Science Show reader, let's call him Scott, asked a question regarding the recycling of condoms. How does one do this?

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05:16

Recycling Challenge

The Mr Science Show ·

2008/03/13

I was recently quite upset to read about a Plastic Soup twice the size of the US floating in the Pacific Ocean. This vast expanse of debris is held in place by swirling underwater currents and stretches from 500 nautical miles off the Californian coast, across the northern Pacific, past Hawaii and almost too Japan. It is believed that there is about 100 million tons of trash in the region.However, I was inspired by one British woman who is now saying no to plastic packaging. So I've decided to copy

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15:19

Science Year 2007

The Mr Science Show ·

2008/02/01

The Top 10 Science Stories of 2007

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05:55

Bosnian Ear Aches

The Mr Science Show ·

2008/01/19

Being hospitalised when overseas is always difficult. But being hospitalised in a building fresh with bullet and shell holes from a war only a few years ago, where the signs are in Cyrillic, and where patients are literally spilling out from the doors, is something different altogether. I've had the pleasure of Hong Kong and Indian hospitals, but the Bosnian hospital was not only unexpected, but unexpectedly pleasurable.

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05:13

Counting Chimps

The Mr Science Show ·

2007/12/21

It has been known for a while that chimps are more evolved than humans - well, their genome has changed more than ours since our common ancestor - but recent studies have shown that chimps have outstanding numeracy abilities that outstrip our own in some cases.This week in the last Mr Science Show for 2007, we take a look at these special chimp abilities.

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16:42

A quick ramble about quantum physics

The Mr Science Show ·

2007/12/10

Sponsor: Try GotoMeeting free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcast.Quantum Physics is a confusing topic for many. One person who makes a living out of understanding and explaining it is Professor Tony Sudbery.I spoke to Professor Sudbery at the York Science Festival about all things quantum and his talk at the Festival entitled Alice and Bob in the Quantum Wonderland. Frankly, I was baffled by much of this conversation, although it was a thoroughly enjoyable

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31:15

Science, Cricket, Fitness and Psychology

The Mr Science Show ·

2007/11/23

Do you need to be fit to play cricket? Do the best batsmen in the world really have the ability to predict the type of ball they will receive before it even arrives? And is cricket really more of a mental game than a physical one?In this rather longer episode, we talk to Dr Rob Duffield from the School of Human Movement at Charles Sturt University who has found that indeed you really do not need to be as physically fit to play cricket as you do other sports such as football. We also have a

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09:30

Language Evolution in Europe

The Mr Science Show ·

2007/11/08

This week we talk to Dr Quentin Atkinson, an evolutionary psychologist from the University of Reading in the UK, about the evolution of language in Europe.Languages, like genes, provide vital clues about human prehistory. The Indo-European languages, now spoken across Europe and the near East, show strikingly similar words for some meanings, indicating that they have come from a common source, now long forgotten. Atkinson and his team used statistical models of language evolution derived from

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22:45

How maths can change your life, Euler and Plus Magazine

The Mr Science Show ·

2007/10/15

I have recently become an editor of Plus Magazine, a free, award winning online mathematics magazine that has articles written by the world's great mathematicians and science communicators, including Stephen Hawking and Marcus du Sautoy. This is why I have been a bit slack on Mr Science... This week's podcast is again from the York Science Festival, and the interview is featured on an upcoming episode of the new Plus podcast. I talk to Professor Chris Budd about all sorts of interesting maths from

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24:48

York Science Festival

The Mr Science Show ·

2007/09/26

This week's podcast comes from the BA Festival of Science, the UK's foremost celebration of science, engineering and technology and its impact on our society. This is the first of a series of podcasts. We talk to Sue Hordienko from the organising committee to find out what it's all about, and have a chat to the following researchers presenting their work at the Festival: Clare Chandler - Factors affecting clinical decision making in northeast TanzaniaMarco Columbo - University of Edinburgh -

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12:39

Spoofing Biometric Security Systems

The Mr Science Show ·

2007/09/06

We talk to Associate Professor Stephanie Schuckers from Clarkson University about her research into biometric security systems - security systems based upon your physical traits such as fingerprint analysis, voice and face recognition and iris and retina scans. Stephanie's research aims to find vulnerable areas in such systems and so she has fooled fingerprinting systems with simple tools such as play doh.

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12:38

Sex before Sport?

The Mr Science Show ·

2007/08/23

It is the virile sports-person's eternal question - should one abstain from a little bit of nookie before a big sporting event?

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04:44

A Terrible Tragedy

The Mr Science Show ·

2007/08/13

One of the great tragedies in modern memory is the extinction of the Yangtze Dolphin.Indeed, it is something about which mankind should be ashamed.The Yangtze Dolphin is the first large animal in 50 years to be driven from the planet, and only the fourth entire mammal family in 500 years to be destroyed. What makes it even more devastating is that it is entirely our fault.Having lived on the planet for 20 million years, time of death was called on Wednesday 8th August with the dolphin

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