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Radio Show & Podcast Feedback / Help tracking down a segment

« on: 19/10/2018 09:34:55 »

Does anyone remember a "Mythconception" on brain chemical levels and depression? I can't seem to find it on the website (maybe because it is from quite a while ago).

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Radio Show & Podcast Feedback / Re: Feedback on "Will machines take over the world?"

« on: 04/10/2017 05:36:06 »

Bother again, I see this topic was already raised in another post. I was looking for the episode title. Sorry.

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Radio Show & Podcast Feedback / Re: Feedback on years of listening to The Naked Scientists

« on: 04/10/2017 05:32:40 »

I very much enjoy the podcast as well. I especially like that Chris and the team are often able to interview scientists and researchers about a new study or their work. Many other science podcasts are just reiterating news items that I could just read myself.

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Radio Show & Podcast Feedback / Re: Feedback on "Will machines take over the world?"

« on: 04/10/2017 05:19:35 »

Oh bother, sorry for the typo in the topic title. Could a moderator fix this for me? Thanks.

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Radio Show & Podcast Feedback / Feedback on "Will machines take over the world?"

« on: 04/10/2017 05:18:02 »

Hello all, I was just relistening to this episode, and noticed that one of the panel (Olivia Reims - sorry, unsure of spelling) was telling people to try what sounded like "power posing". I did a bit of a double-take, because I was sure I remembered reading in 2016 that the positive findings of the initial study on this could not be replicated, and one researcher had stated that their findings were probably wrong in the light of further studies that failed to replicate the original. Other problems were identified such as the small study size.

Here's an article:
www.npr.org/2016/10/01/496093672/power-poses-co-author-i-do-not-believe-the-effects-are-real

I think this would be an excellent opportunity for the Naked Scientists to implement a "corrections" segment. It could coincide with a segment on how science progresses by challenging claims and testing results by attempting to replicate them. And of course telling people when they get things wong :-)

Cheers,
Sarah
(Fixed a typo in the thread title....mod)

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Physiology & Medicine / Re: Does eating food high in sugar make you thirsty?

« on: 22/08/2015 14:44:20 »

Without blinding, removing confounding factors, serious stats, and full body fluid intake and output monitoring, experimenting on myself would just make for an anecdotal data point of one.

Also, I don't like honey  []

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Physiology & Medicine / Does eating food high in sugar make you thirsty?

« on: 16/08/2015 14:00:32 »

I was wondering whether eating food high in sugar would make you thirsty. I tried googling it but couldn't find any scientific or medical discussions either way.

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Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution / Re: Is it true that humans couldn't survive more than 3 months on raw food?

« on: 24/09/2012 05:26:58 »

Just to add to my original question:

I believe the idea is not that raw food is bad for you, but that moderns humans can no longer survive on a 100% raw diet. My guess was that we have lost the ability to secrete the enzymes required to extract everything we need from uncooked food.

Thanks everyone for the interesting comments so far. Cheers, Sarah.