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In season 1 episode 5 of The Flintstones, Fred gets conked on the head (as pictured here) and it completely changes his personality. A second conk later on reverses it. (Screen grab of The Flintstones)
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Fact or cartoon fiction: Can the ‘double conk’ cure amnesia?

Mary Spiers runs the website neuropsyfi.com, which is devoted to how brain science is depicted i ...

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Radio Times

Is there a limit to the human lifespan?

Guests: Jay Olshansky, David Sinclair One hundred and fifteen years – that’s about as old as we can hope to g ...

Air Date: October 11, 2016

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The Nobel Prizes in science

Guests: Duncan Haldane, Mark Peplow, Ravi Amaravadi The Nobel Prizes in ...

Air Date: October 10, 2016

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Philadelphia Inquirer sports writer Bill Lyon & Alzheimer’s disease

Guest: Bill Lyon Three years ago, retired Philadelphia Inquirer sports writer ...

Air Date: October 4, 2016

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Tackling the high cost of child care and the presidential candidates’ plans

Guests: Linda Houser, Corey Shdaimah As any working parent knows, child care costs a lot and finding good quality ...

Air Date: September 19, 2016

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Radio Times

“I Contain Multitudes” – on microbes and our microbiome; Hiring undocumented immigrants

Guests: Ed Yong, Javier Garcia Hernandez For centuries humankind has been waging a war against microbes – the bacteria, viruses, ...

Air Date: August 25, 2016

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Psychoanalyzing the candidates

Guests: Nassir Ghaemi, Dan McAdams Psychiatrists and psychologists, and the public at large, have been weighing i ...

Air Date: August 21, 2016

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ACA update

Guests: Robert Field, Joel Zinberg, Elizabeth Brown In this hour of Radio Times, we’ll get some updates on the ...

Air Date: August 16, 2016

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Speak Easy
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The politics of poison ivy

Diagnosing poison ivy is easy. Getting my insurance company to pay for the generic steroid cream to cure it? Not so much. Getting ...

10 years ago

Two petri dishes
Radio Times

Human-Animal hybrids; then Trump’s ‘jokes’

Guests: Monika Piotrowska, Sean Wu, Jody Avirgan Part lion, part goat, and part snake, the mythological and feroc ...

Air Date: August 11, 2016

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Doping & The Olympics

Guests: Dennis Cardone, Mark Johnson, Eugen Dimant There’s a renewed discussion about doping at the Olympic Gam ...

Air Date: August 10, 2016

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Radio Times in Review: Immunotherapy, White Trash, Henrietta Lacks

Guests: David Porter, Lynn Schuchter, Nancy Isenberg, Rebecca Skloot On today’s edition of Radio Times in Revie ...

Air Date: August 5, 2016

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Radio Times

News Roundup: Zika update, Millennial promiscuity, and NJ’s proposed gas tax

Guests: Donald McNeil Jr., Jean Twenge, Ryan Hutchins The CDC warned pregnant women and their partners not to tra ...

Air Date: August 3, 2016

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Planning for the DNC, What to Expect, Ed Rendell’s Role at the convention, & more

Guests: Julia Terruso, Holly Otterbein, Mayor Jim Kenney, Governor Ed Rendell Radio Times is broadcasting live th ...

Air Date: July 25, 2016

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Hungary for discount dentistry? The European nation feeds the world’s growing appetite for medical tourism

If Bela Batorfi has his way, Hungary may soon be synonymous with complex dental procedures in the way that France is known for baguettes ...

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