EUSci: Edinburgh University Science Podcast #20

Despite exams, work, and the Christmas season bearing down upon us like a freight train, we have found the time to bring you yet another episode of the EUSci podcast. This week, our host Frank Dondelinger explores why chimpanzees can't talk, why doctors may need help from computers in making decisions, why nanotechnologies are not always bad, and much more. So sit back and enjoy our take on the small but perfectly formed collection of science stories that made the headlines (or at least the science pages) of newspapers over the past couple of weeks.

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What's in today's show:-



News:

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  Bad Decisions May Be Contagious


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  Rare Monkey Has an Interesting Sexual History


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  Hazfa People in Tanzania Don't Conform to Body Stereotypes


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  Rosetta Probe Comes Back and Does a Slingshot


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  Scottish Forest Named one of the World's Best Places for Stargazing

Correspondent Reports:

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  Why Can't Chimps Speak?


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  Software Helps Doctors Make Decisions about Complicated Medical Conditions


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  A couple of nanotechnology stories: Gold Nanocages and Nanotubes to Soak Up Oil Spills

Feature:

Edward Duca interviews Stephen Hallett, a British documentary maker living in China, about the environmental devastation in the grasslands of Mongolia.

EU-What?!

• We talk about natural remedies and the placebo effect.

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