Throwaway Society 2/2

Can the world’s companies manufacture four times more stuff without gutting the planet?

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Placebo Problem

The medical phenomenon of the nocebo effect, the fear that something is harmful

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Finding Your Voice

The impact of selective mutism, a condition often described as a phobia of speaking

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Does Money Make you Mean?

Does becoming rich make you less kind to those around you?

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Does Money Make you Mean?

Hong Kong psychologists test the effects of money from our generosity to agression

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John O'Keefe

Nobel Prize 2014 winner John O'Keefe on his work on spatial ability and basketball

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Matt Taylor

The Rosetta comet mission and the man in charge of landing the robot Philae on comet 67P

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The Teenage Brain: Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

A cognitive neuroscientist unlocks the mysteries of the teenage brain

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Jane Francis

The director of the British Antarctic Survey, Jane Francis talks to Jim Al-Khalili.

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Science of Stammering

Exploring the condition of stammering, widely misunderstood and occurs in all cultures

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Scotland's Forgotten Einstein, James Clerk Maxwell

How the Scottish scientist James Clerk Maxwell paved the way for today's technology

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Future of Solar Energy

Roland Pease explores Perovskite, the new material experts say will transform solar power

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Shedding Light on the Brain

Biologists use light to explore the brain - and to alter it

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What the Songbird Said

The science of birdsong and its relationship to human language

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Origins of War

Is war a uniquely human act or can its origins be found in our evolutionary past?

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Stephanie Shirley: Software Pioneer

Dame Stephanie Shirley made a fortune selling computer programmes to companies

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The Bone Wars

The tale of dinosaur hunters Edward Cope and Othniel Marsh and their legendary feud

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Future of European Science

The European Research Council’s policy of backing high risk, high gain basic science

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Sounds of Space: The Solar System

Take a sonic journey through the Solar System with astronomer, Dr Lucie Green

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Sounds Of Space: Deep Space

Voyaging further into deep space, with astronomer, Dr Lucie Green.

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James Watt and Steam Power

How the engine that powered the industrial revolution nearly ran out of steam

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Maurice Wilkins

The third man behind the unravelling of DNA's double helix Maurice Wilkins

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The Colour Purple

How William Perkin brought purple to the people in Victorian London

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Death of a Physicist

Henry Moseley was seen as Britain’s greatest physicist, but was killed in World War One

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The Great Telescopes and Evolution

Simon Schaffer tells of the astronomers who grappled with evolution long before Darwin.

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Truth about the Body Mass Index

As Dr Mark Porter's waistline increases he puts his body mass index, or BMI, to the test.

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Women on the ‘Problem with Science’

A global perspective on the barriers to women in science.

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Life Changers - Kathryn Maitland

Kathryn Maitland has a burning passion to transform clinical research across Africa.

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Life Changers - Venki Ramakrishnan

Kevin Fong talks to the Indian-born Nobel Laureate Professor Venki Ramakrishnan

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Life Changers - Anita Sengupta

Nasa engineer Anita Sengupta on landing a rover on Mars

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