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The Friday Five: A Surprising Health Benefit for People Who Have Kids

Making Sense of Science - January 27, 2023 16:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
The Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a ...

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The Friday Five: You've Never Heard of the Best Sport for Mental Health

Making Sense of Science - January 20, 2023 17:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
The Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a ...

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The World's Longest Running Study on Happiness, with Dr. Bob Waldinger

Making Sense of Science - January 10, 2023 13:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
What makes for a good life? Such a simple question, yet we don't have great answers. Most of us try to figure it out as we go along, and many end up feeling like they never got to the bottom of it. Shouldn't something so important be approached with more scientific rigor? In 1938, Harvard resea...

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The Friday Five: A New Blood Test to Detect Alzheimer's

Making Sense of Science - January 06, 2023 16:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
The Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a ...

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Repairing Cells and Longevity Myths with Dr. Charles Brenner

Making Sense of Science - December 22, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Meet Charles Brenner, the Longevity Skeptic. Brenner, a leading biochemist at City of Hope National Medical Center in L.A., has been attending the largest longevity conferences with one main purpose: to point out that some of the other speakers are full of it. Brenner is "throwing cold water" o...

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The Friday Five: An mRNA Vaccine Works Against Cancer

Making Sense of Science - December 16, 2022 17:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
The Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a ...

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The Friday Five: Sugar Could Help Catch Cancer Early

Making Sense of Science - December 09, 2022 17:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
The Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a ...

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The Friday Five: Soon Band-Aids Could Be AIs

Making Sense of Science - December 02, 2022 17:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
The Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a ...

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The Friday Five: The Plain Solution to Holiday Stress?

Making Sense of Science - November 25, 2022 17:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
The Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a ...

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The Friday Five: How to Exercise for Cancer Prevention

Making Sense of Science - November 18, 2022 16:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
The Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a ...

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The Friday Five: Electric Shocks Help People Walk Again

Making Sense of Science - November 11, 2022 17:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
The Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a ...

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Friday Five: Boots for Running Faster with Less Effort

Making Sense of Science - November 04, 2022 16:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
The Friday Five covers important stories in health and science research that you may have missed - usually over the previous week but, today, we're doing a lookback on breakthrough research over the month of October. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and...

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Friday Five Lookback on Health Research in October

Making Sense of Science - November 04, 2022 16:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
The Friday Five covers important stories in health and science research that you may have missed - usually over the previous week but, today, we're doing a lookback on breakthrough research over the month of October. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and...

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The Friday Five: Lab Made Blood Vessels

Making Sense of Science - October 28, 2022 16:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
The Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a ...

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The Friday Five Weekly Roundup in Health Research

Making Sense of Science - October 28, 2022 16:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
The Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a ...

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The Friday Five: How to Make Cities of the Future Less Noisy

Making Sense of Science - October 21, 2022 15:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
The Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a ...

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The Friday Five: How Young Athletes Can Avoid Lifelong Joint Problems

Making Sense of Science - October 14, 2022 15:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
The Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a ...

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Can Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Boost Health? An Interview with Shai Efrati

Making Sense of Science - October 13, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
On today’s podcast episode, I had a chance to speak with Shai Efrati, a physician and professor in the schools of medicine and neuroscience at Tel Aviv University. Efrati also directs the Sagol Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Research, and our conversation in this episode focuses on the poten...

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The Friday Five: Armoring our Livers Against Cancer

Making Sense of Science - October 07, 2022 16:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
The Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a ...

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Friday Five Lookback on Health Research in September

Making Sense of Science - September 29, 2022 18:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
The Friday Five covers important stories in health and science research that you may have missed - usually over the previous week but, today, we're doing a lookback on breakthrough research over the month of September. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – a...

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The Friday Five: A Mask that Could Detect Covid

Making Sense of Science - September 23, 2022 17:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
The Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a ...

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The Friday Five: A Pill to Prevent Lung Cancer?

Making Sense of Science - September 16, 2022 16:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
The Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a ...

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The Friday Five: The Need for (Walking) Speed to Reduce Dementia Risk

Making Sense of Science - September 09, 2022 16:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
The Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a ...

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The Friday Five: The Best Plants to Suck Toxins from the Air

Making Sense of Science - September 02, 2022 16:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
The Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a ...

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The Inner Lives of Human Breasts with Camila dos Santos

Making Sense of Science - August 29, 2022 14:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
My guest today for the Making Sense of Science podcast is Camila dos Santos, associate professor at Cold Spring Harbor Lab, who is a leading researcher of the inner lives of human mammary glands, more commonly known as breasts. These organs are unlike any other because throughout life they under...

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The Friday Five: How to Get the Benefits of Near-Death Experiences

Making Sense of Science - August 26, 2022 15:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
The Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a ...

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The Friday Five: A Saliva Test for PTSD

Making Sense of Science - August 19, 2022 10:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
The Friday Five covers five stories in health research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give...

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The Science of Recharging Your Energy with Sara Mednick

Making Sense of Science - August 17, 2022 13:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
If you’re like me, you may have a case of email apnea, where you stop taking restful breaths when you open a work email. Or maybe you’re in the habit of shining blue light into your eyes long after sunset through your phone. Many of us are doing all kinds of things throughout the day that put us...

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The Friday Five

Making Sense of Science - August 12, 2022 15:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
The Friday Five covers five stories in health research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give...

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The Friday Five: Sex Differences in Cancer

Making Sense of Science - August 12, 2022 15:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
The Friday Five covers five stories in health research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give...

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