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Todays episode features stories on

Vitamins

The band The Killers

Polydactylism

Elephants recognise themselves in the mirror

Huge hurricane rages on Saturn

Students cut some slack when hanging loose

Oceans becoming more acidic

Climate change melting fabled African glaciers

Music featured on todays show includes
Kelly – Van She
Thank you to Glen Goetze from Modular Music for the music from Van She. Visit Van She at http://www.vanshe.com/

Other music featured includes
Feeling – Proxymo
Purple Flipflops – DJ Topshelf
Geh Mir Aus Dem Weg – Spacemission
Metamorphosis – The Cheebacabra
Push – The Cheebacabra
The Sweetest Nectar – Punam Verma

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Todays episode features stories on

Chemosynthesis

The Academy Awards

Piezoelectricity

Digital guitars

The sun had sisters at birth

Space radiation could impede exploration

Darwin’s missing notes are now online

Music featured on todays show includes
The Sphinx – mjc
Old fashioned romance – mjc
Funky beats – DJ R-Qubed
The rennaisance of dodo bird – mjc

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Todays show features stories on the following:

Ancient footprints found in Mexico

Da Vinci fingerprint reveals Arab heritage

Scientists question fundamental laws

World’s pollution hotspots mapped

Science has designs on your brain

Howard ‘frozen in time’

Aussies eye sun to beat blackouts

Tower of babel translator mode

Ancient Greeks calculating the size of the Earth (no link)

Zero Point Energy

Music featured on todays show includes
Ich Liebe Nur Mich – Spacemission
Mein Seele Wird … Gehen – Spacemission
Whats her age – Spacemission

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Todays show features stories on hereditary facial expressions, new elements, time travel and the universe and invisibility.

Facial expressions hereditary

Controversy-plagued superheavy element 118 finally created

Experts create invisibility cloak

Why the sun seems to be dimming

Space images reveal aftermath of a cosmic crash

Music featured on todays show includes
Im not as think as I smart I am by the Socknockers
Five minutes into the future by the Socknockers
Electromooq by Uma Floresta

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In the first Brains Matter podcast, The Ordinary Guy brings you stories on the newly discovered Missing Link baby, and a story on Extra Solar planets.
Music featured on the show includes: Im not as think as I smart I am by the Socknockers, and Dead Centre by Stark
Thank you to NLP, DB, and CB for contributing and getting this podcast off the ground.

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Welcome to the Brains Matter podcast.

In this podcast the Ordinary Guy will be talking about science, curiosities, conundrums, new and old information in the world of general knowledge, and anything else that is interesting. Please subscribe, and enjoy the show!

Welcome to the Brains Matter podcast – where brains really do matter. A discussion of science, trivia, history, and general knowledge.

If you have suggestions for topics or comments on any shows, please contact us via the web page or e-mail. (Don’t forget to remove the anti-spam comment at the end of the address)

Feel free to donate if you like the show, to help pay for our internet and costs of producing the show.