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Episode - Science Show - 2008-11-08

Science Show - 2008-11-08

53m 41s

11-07-08

Science in the United States as Barack Obama is elected President Excerpts from the Horizon television documentary The Presidentīs Guide to Science, plus comments from Freeman Dyson and Paul Ehrlich. The fat gene In the past 10 years, people have become heavier. Carrying more weight causes disease later in life. The best advice is to eat less and run more. But achieving this is difficult. So work is underway to find a pill which controls a recently discovered gene which controls weight. Presently it is unknown how the gene controls body weight. Bad Science - Ben Goldacre part 2 Ben Goldacre

 

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RN's science flagship: your essential source of what's making news in the complex world of scientific research, scandal and discovery. The Science Show with Robyn Williams is one of the longest running programs on Australian radio.

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