Podcast
Not Exactly Rocket Science
Hosted by Duncan and Dominic · EN
In each episode, Duncan and Dominic talk to a medical researcher about what they do, and believe us, if we can understand this stuff then so can you.
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Adam Zeman
Feb 8, 201900:29:34Tap to summarizeAdam researches disorders of visual imagery, such as that exhibited by one of your hosts. We talked to him about understanding ourselves better, a form of epilepsy that makes you forget, and what his research field actually is (it’s not cognitive and neural biology…)
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Kate O'Donnell
Jan 25, 201900:29:30Tap to summarizeKate researches primary care, and she was kind enough to talk to us about what primary care is and how it’s changing, how much more NHS24 does now than when it started and how migrants accessing the NHS is making it work better for everyone
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Will Wood
Jan 11, 201900:34:42Tap to summarizeWill researches repair & regeneration, and he chatted to us about wound signalling, cells that level up, genetic powerhouses and a death star for flies
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Rachael Jack
Dec 14, 201800:28:36Tap to summarizeRachael works on understanding what people say without speaking, and she talked to us about cultural expressions, the “other race effect”, and how her computer can’t pull funny faces
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Lisa McDaid
Nov 30, 201800:28:23Tap to summarizeLisa is a social scientist at Glasgow, and she talked to us about how your community affects your health, poverty safari, and the difference that science can make to real people
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Lynn Paterson
Nov 9, 201800:29:55Tap to summarizeIn a special Not Exactly Brain Surgery episode, biologists Philip and Clara talked to Lynn, a lecturer in physics at Heriot Watt. They talked about optical tweezers, being knocked over by sunlight and the tweezability of yeast
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Poppy Lamberton
Oct 26, 201800:29:54Tap to summarizePoppy works in neglected tropical diseases, and she spoke to us about discrete choice experiments, worms that come out of snails, and how children can poo on demand
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Karen Faulds
Oct 12, 201800:28:43Tap to summarizeKaren is working with nanoparticles to see cells in a new way, and she spoke to us about having to learn how to talk to medics, accidental discoveries, and emailing strangers
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Gail McConnell
Sep 28, 201800:29:28Tap to summarizeGail is actually a physicist, and she talked to us about a lens as big as your arm, sending hard drives through the post, and the difficulty of advertising DVD on VHS
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Elaine Dzierzak
Sep 14, 201800:28:29Tap to summarizeElaine is trying to make stem cells, and she was kind enough to talk to us about the importance of finding a question that drives you, tiny little mouse hearts, and Vegas slots
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