SoT 54: A Guy Called Herbert

Published: May 6, 2012, 6:23 a.m.

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Hosts:\xa0Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Adam vanLangenberg, Kate Naughton.

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Early tetrapods used their body armour for breathing. Using your brain as your password. A lack of diversity in Tasmanian Tigers led to their extinction, and Tasmanian Devils are facing a similar fate.\xa0Drugged honeybees give insights into jetlag and body clocks. Does thinking in a foreign language make you more rational? What makes people seem 'creepy'? A new mathetmatics model predicts the\xa0proportion of left-handed people in sports like boxing and golf.

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