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August 2016: BFF=Best Fictional Friends?

Aug 25, 201630 min
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Episode description

In this edition, we’ll discuss why the street drug ecstasy deserves research as a potential therapeutic, with Robert Malenka, Cell (00:00); how fiction might be good for you, with Keith Oatley, Trends in Cognitive Sciences (8:35); and why we get breast or colon cancer, but not heart cancer, with Frédéric Thomas, Trends in Cancer (18:30).

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