Science On Top 12 - The Honour of the Cucumber

Another week, another ramble about science in the news. This week we had a different special guest, Simon Taylor, who writes for local entertainment mag Beat and is a magician and comedian. He's also working on a comic strip called Flim-Flam which he hopes to get up and running soon. His fascination with psychology and the mind was very useful in the last two topics.

Here be it

Topics:
Update on the German E.coli (EHEC) outbreak - sequencing reveals some of its evolutionary history;
The Emperor Penguin Shuffle - keeping warm in ball-bitingly cold places;
Devil Worms From The Deep!;
MORE PSEUDOSCIENCE! Mobile phones and the cancer scare (thanks, WHO);
Questions of morality - hypothetical situations regarding killing to save lives;
The racism - or otherwise - of babies.

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And, just because, some dude's done some breathtaking digital animations of flyovers of certain terrains of Mars.

I'd embed the youtube link but for some reason I can't find any more embed options on any youtube page. It's very strange....