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Episode 48: June 2018

In this episode, we hear about why we always have space for dessert, how collecting seeds from large areas could help restoration projects, gut bacteria, the placebo effect and toxoplasmosis.
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Episode 48: June 2018
Hannah Troupe

Chapters

  1. 0:35
    Room for more
    The nucleus accumbens in the brain drives our desire to eat high-fat foods, but only when we are not hungry.
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  2. 7:01
    Sowing the future
    Collecting seeds from a large area could help improve reforestation/restoration programmes.
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  3. 13:33
    Gut patrol
    Gut bacteria can help to protect us from plant toxins.
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  4. 19:26
    Great expectations
    The size of the placebo effect depends on how precise our expectations about a treatment are.
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  5. 25:48
    Parasite life cycles
    Two related parasite species provide new insight into toxoplasmosis.
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