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The Geordie Boffin Science Podcast is an irregular and irreverent tour of science news from the Sciencebase.com website Primary Format : Science Language : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Cambridge State/Province : Cambs Country : United Kingdom Region : EU User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Geordie Boffin Podcast Podcasts Methings.com listings of Geordie Boffin Podcast Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of Geordie Boffin Podcast Homeopathy really doesn’t work A couple of years ago, I re-posted an old article of mine about homeopathy discussing its ludicrous claims, its feeble attempts to provide a scientific explanation for those claims, and basically pointing out that no solid evidence has ever been found that infinitely diluted solutions of spurious ingredients have any more beneficial effect on a [...]Homeopathy really doesn’t work is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogClick here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Latest science headlines Time to bring you up to date on the latest science headlines I’ve put together for other sites this last couple of weeks, so here’s a quick round-up: On the SpectroscopyNOW site, this issue, I covered natural chemicals that can help sunflowers soak up toxic cadmium from the soil (another example of the phytoremediation process I [...]Latest science headlines is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogClick here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Genetically engineered heavy metal fans The wastewater released from industry often contains high levels of toxic heavy metals, which can kill organisms, damage ecosystems, and accumulate in the foodchain. Electroplating, lead smelting, mining, and countless other processes produce enormous volumes of such wastewater. In a perfect world, remediation would be powered by a renewable energy supply, there would be no solid [...]Genetically engineered heavy metal fans is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogClick here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Juggling cancer nano news Latest news reports from yours truly on Spectroscopynow.com Juggling matters on the brain – UK scientists have used magnetic resonance imaging to reveal that learning a complex task like juggling can causes changes in the white matter in the brain. The findings could have implications for developing new approaches to neurodegenerative diseases, such as multiple sclerosis. Cancer [...]Juggling cancer nano news is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogClick here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Berlin Wall falls in Australia Twenty years ago today, my girlfriend (now my wife) and I lay on a bed in a cramped backpackers’ hostel in the Katherine Gorge National Park (now Nitmiluk), in Australia’s Northern Territory, watching news of the fall of the Berlin Wall (now rubble). Outside insects were buzzing ferociously, the temperature was in the high 30s, [...]Berlin Wall falls in Australia is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogClick here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website List categories for Twitter scientists UPDATE – NOV 5: Still working through the almost 650 members of the list, but now up to the P’s. Pressure was on from lots of science tweeps for to categorise my scientwist list…so I’ve made a start. The spillover (lots of tweeps in the T to Z group from the TweepML.org version of my scientwist list [...]List categories for Twitter scientists is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogClick here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twitter science list categories The manually compiled Scientwists list of science people on Twitter grew from around 100 of my contacts in January 2009 to almost 700 members, who asked to join or who retweeted the link as of October. Justin Reid helped automate the inclusion of bios and photos and 2020science did some amazing analyses to show how all [...]Twitter science list categories is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogClick here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alchemical Anomalies In the current issue of The Alchemist we learn how to stick methane molecules to metals without breaking carbon-hydrogen bonds and how to make impossible carbene catalysts without the usual prerequisite of an attendant metal centre. Another seeming impossibility comes to light: a new microscopy technique for visualizing non-fluorescing biomolecules using the kind of stimulated emission [...]Alchemical Anomalies is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogClick here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Categories for science tweeps Okay. Okay. Pressure was on to categorise my scientwist list…so I’ve made a start. First off, the spillover (lots of tweeps in the T to Z group from the TweepML.org version of my scientwist list, which has 650 members or thereabouts) have now each been given a category as I cannot squeeze them into the 500 [...]Categories for science tweeps is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogClick here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Whole Cell Twitter Interview Laura Bonetta wrote an excellent article for the science journal Cell recently in which she quoted various science types who use Twitter on the subject of whether or not scientists should be tweeting. It’s a topic I’ve discussed more generally regarding scientists’ use of social media and online networking communities. Anyway, she asked my opinion on [...]My Whole Cell Twitter Interview is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogClick here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scientists on Twitter Regulars will know that I’ve compiled and recompiled lists of science types on Twitter for mutual benefit. It started out as a list of 100 of my own Twitter friends back in January 2009, who happened to be in science and gradually grew to well over 600 members by November 2009. However, just as I migrated [...]Scientists on Twitter is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogClick here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Food Chemistry News On the menu today, why red wine is a no-no when it comes to fishy cuisine, how chemists can help you improve your gravy, and a whole platter of food chemistry to tempt your taste buds: “Red wine with red meat, white wine with fish.” But, have you ever wondered why? Japanese chemists have discovered that [...]Food Chemistry News is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogClick here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Don’t be such a scientist! Don’t be such a scientist! It’s the kind of thing I’d expect my sister to say to my face if I’ve gone off on one of my lecture mode conversations about some great discovery, or something some of my artier friends might whisper about me behind my back. Sometimes it’s a personal wish…but then I [...]Don’t be such a scientist! is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogClick here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A month with an electricity monitor Right, the kettle is on for a morning brew and apparently our household is using 3.07 kilowatts. That will include the chest freezer in the garage, the refrigerator in the kitchen, the electric kettle, my laptop and wireless network, oh and a little device sitting on my desk right now that’s monitoring all those electrons [...]A month with an electricity monitor is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogClick here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Breast Cancer, Plankton, Tellurides My latest contributions to SpectroscopyNOW.com and my current Alchemist column on ChemWeb.com are now live: Sweetening breast cancer risk – Experimental and epidemiological evidence previously suggested that circulating glucose and insulin may play a role in the emergence of breast cancer. Now a statistical analysis of baseline plasma levels of these compounds shows that elevated serum [...]Breast Cancer, Plankton, Tellurides is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogClick here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Climate Change Action It’s Blog Action Day 2009 and the subject this year is Climate Change. So, here are a few resources for readers seeking out climate information: IPCC – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – The IPCC assesses the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change. EPA – The US [...]Climate Change Action is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogClick here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Metal Bottle Tops and Landfill Mining Reduce, re-use, and recycle. Just one of the countless mantras of the twenty-first century that we are told will save the planet. Of course, my grandmother used to put it far more succinctly and in a much more accessible form: waste not, want not. Now, we have carbon footprints, emissions targets, and landfill directives, that are [...]Metal Bottle Tops and Landfill Mining is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogClick here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Moon, Earthquakes, Chemical Weapons The media was today almost drenched with the idea that water and other wonders would be been found on the Moon, but unfortunately LXPRESS was the least moist of damp squibs ever and no 50 km plume was seen, not even a little splash. NASA scientists are trying to figure out why. Meanwhile, in the October [...]Moon, Earthquakes, Chemical Weapons is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogClick here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gen-F Scientists Ignoring Social Networking A quick analysis of online social networks, such as LinkedIn and Xing would suggest that a mere 1 in 7 research scientists use such tools as part of their work. This contrasts starkly with the business world where uptake is up to 88%. In other words almost 9 out of every ten employees in the [...]Gen-F Scientists Ignoring Social Networking is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogClick here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sniffer, E coli Clues, Graphene The second batch of physical science and biomedical research news in the SpectroscopyNOW ezines are live: Optical sniffer detects poison gas – US researchers have developed an optoelectronic nose that can sniff out toxic gases. The sensor is fast and inexpensive and could be used to detect high exposure risk to hazardous industrial chemicals. E coli clues [...]Sniffer, E coli Clues, Graphene is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogClick here to play Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website