SoT 30: Plucky Little Cycads
Oct 27, 2011•39 min
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Episode description
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, and Lucas Randall.
Topics covered:
A new way to turn adult cells into embryonic stem cells, Cycads not so ancient after all, nanotube fibres that twist and untwist could propel nanobots. Astronomers may have directly imaged a planet in the process of forming, the IQ of teenagers fluctuates, and the world's biggest virus: MEGAVIRUS.
The book Penny mentions is Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, by Stephen Jay Gould.
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