ARMAGEDDON - Super Volcanoes, Meteorites and Earthquakes

Published: June 23, 2007, 11 p.m.

b'This week a rabies-based Trojan Horse that smuggles drugs across the blood-brain barrier, why first-borns are brighter, progress with Parkinson\'s and a lunar telescope more powerful than Hubble. Plus in this week\'s ARMAGEDDON-focused show we look at supervolcanes, earthquakes and arsenic, find out why curtains are absolutely lethal and why a meteorite impact probably didn\'t dispense with the dinosaurs after all. Also, in Kitchen Science, we test the claim that tapping the top of a fizzy drink before you open it stops it spraying all over you... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists'