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26th Oct 2008

All in the Mind - Beauty, Dancing and PTSD


Kat Arney

Ben Valsler

Disco Psychology - the science of drinking and dancing feature in this week's Naked Scientists. We find out what your dance moves say about your genes and why drinking alcohol or smoking cigarettes makes faces seem more attractive. Also, we discover what happens in the minds of people suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD. Plus, researchers make brain washing a reality, roll out a stream of x-rays from a reel of sticky tape, and reveal why the smell of rotten eggs may be good for your blood pressure! In Kitchen Science, we re-train Ben's brain see the world from a different angle!

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News

Brainwashing is here?

No longer the domain of science fiction, researchers at Medical College of Georgia in the US, have found a way to selectively wipe memories from the brain. So far they’ve only got this working in mice, which is a relief for us all. It all centres on a molecule called calmodulin-dependent protein ki...

Researchers roll out new way to make x-rays - with sticky tape

US scientists have made an extraordinary discovery with a roll of sticky tape. By placing the spool in a vacuum and unrolling the tape with a motor they produced a burst of x-rays.  Writing in this week's Nature UCLA scientist Carlos Camara and his colleagues describe how they made the discov...

Rotten eggs regulate blood pressure

As the childhood saying goes, “he who smelt it, dealt it”, and we’re all familiar with that unpleasant whiff of rotten eggs, the ‘pleasant’ perfume released by breaking wind. This is the gas hydrogen sulphide at work. But now a team of researchers has shown that this whiffy gas plays an important r...

The ST-E-Card

Doctors have developed a new technique with which to tackle the problem of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). At the moment when a patient is diagnosed with an STI there follows a laborious contact-tracing process intended to track down, warn, test and treat other partners who might be at ris...

Warm coffee warms the heart

Here at the Naked Scientists we’re all pretty warm-hearted people, but now researchers at Yale University have shown that it might be down to our choice of drinks rather than our nice personalities.  This photograph shows a glass of latte macchiato, which is a hot beverage made from steamed mi...


Kitchen Science

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Motor learning

Confuse your brain using a mouse. And Ben tries to throw a ball from a differnt perspective.


Interviews

The Teslathon - High Voltage Fun!

Cambridge's annual Teslathon brings enthusiastic amateurs get together to show off their home made tesla coils – high voltage devices based on the same principal as an electric transformer. Danger! High Voltage Fun!

Dancing in your Genes

Time to get your dancing shoes on! It seems that the way you dance could say something about your genetic fitness – in other words, how good your genes would be to pass on to the next generation. Dr Peter Lovatt, a professional dancer turned psychologist from the University of Hertfordshire joins ...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, is a debilitating condition where people who have been through nightmarish conditions have flashbacks so intense that they no longer know what's real. Meera found out more...

Beer and Beauty

the beer goggles, or stella-vision, is a well known phenomenon where a few alcoholic drinks makes other people seem much more attractive, sometimes even leading people to do things they regret. Psychologists at Bristol University have been looking into this effect, and it seems that there’s more to...


QotW

A Better Balanced Bike

Where is the best place to put the weight on you r bike? Is a front basket, or rear panier the way to get the best out of your legs?


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