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SoT 59: Might As Well Be Blind

June 10, 2012 By Ed Brown Leave a Comment

Download Now!Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall, Jo Benhamu.

Topics covered:

  • Body odour reveals a person’s age
  • Robotic Rehab Helps Paralyzed Rats Walk Again
  • Mutant flies confirm genetic link to restless legs syndrome
  • Carbon Found in Mars Meteorites (And Why It Has Nothing to Do With Martian Life)
  • New Findings On Astronaut Vision Loss
  • Evil Eyebrows and Pointy Chin of a Cartoon Villain Make Our ‘threat’ Instinct Kick in
  • 2 New Elements Named on Periodic Table
  • Mediterranean Diet Is Definitively Linked to Quality of Life
  • Could Sarcastic Computers Be in Our Future? New Math Model Can Help Computers Understand Inference

Restoring Voluntary Control of Locomotion after Paralyzing Spinal Cord Injury

Image source: Original paper published in Science.

Download here. Duration: 1:02:14

Filed Under: Ed Brown, Jo Benhamu, Lucas Randall, Penny Dumsday Tagged With: astronauts, computing, diet, Flerovium, geology, gerontology, linguistics, Livermorium, mars, meteorite, odour, periodic table, restless leg syndrome, threat instinct, vision

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