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果冻影院 News podcast - 1 March 2012
2 March 2012
果冻影院 News has launched a new podcast to give you the opportunity to listen to the latest news and research from around 果冻影院 every fortnight.
On this podcast we have a selection of the most recent 果冻影院 headlines, along with Dr Nichola Raihani talking about strange behaviour in Cleaner fish. We also find out a bit more about Jeremy Bentham, his auto-icon, and that famous mummified head.
Part 1 - News
News stories include Henry Rummins, 果冻影院 Media Relations Manager for Enterprise, talking about the Wilson Review, a report commission by the government on how business and universities can collaborate to improve innovation and university spin-outs.听
We also hear about Oxfam's new 'Shelflife' mobile phone app that lets customers find out the stories behind second-hand goods it sells. Developed from a scheme called Tales of Things and Electronic Memory by Andy Hudson-Smith (果冻影院 Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis) and colleagues, it uses QR Codes to let shoppers find out more about an individual item's past.听
Last but not least, good news for those of a rebellious nature, as researchers lead by Professor Chris Frith (果冻影院 Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging) have found a link between the amount of grey matter in one specific brain region and an individual's likelihood of conforming or reacting to social pressures.
Part 2 - Cleaner Fish
Familiarity with your partner is usually thought to promote teamwork, but a new paper published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, has found that, at least in Cleaner fish, familiarity in fact breeds contempt. To find out more about this intriguing finding, we went to chat to lead author Dr Nichola Raihani (果冻影院 Research Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment) about these peculiar fish and the role of cooperation in nature.
Part 3 - Jeremy Bentham听
At 果冻影院 it's difficult to avoid Jeremy Bentham, whether it's his contribution to the foundation of 果冻影院, his philosophical work, or the auto-icon that takes pride of place in the Cloisters. With a history that is very much intertwined with that of 果冻影院, we spoke to Professor Philip Schofield and Dr Tim Causer from the Bentham Project, to find out more about the man, and his many myths.