{"id":252,"date":"2010-01-20T01:02:19","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T14:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2012-08-05T11:03:28","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T11:03:28","slug":"106-dr-owen-carter-research-into-the-ultraviolet-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"106 &#8211; Dr Owen Carter &#8211; Research into the Ultraviolet Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have all heard of the ultraviolet index in weather reports.  What is it?   What does it mean to the lay person?  What is the average person&#8217;s perception of the ultraviolet index?  I talk to Dr Owen Carter from the CBRCC and Curtin University in Western Australia about his research into this area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Who is most likely to get sunburned?<br \/>\n&#8211; What are the best predictors for skin cancer?<br \/>\n&#8211; What is the difference between SPF and the Ultraviolet Index?<br \/>\n&#8211; Is all exposure to UV bad?  Is there a protective effect?<br \/>\n&#8211; What are people&#8217;s perceptions of the UV Index?<br \/>\n&#8211; What measures have been recommended to influence people&#8217;s perception of the UV index and help reduce the incidences if skin cancer?<br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/audio.jpg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/predictabledata.com\/projects\/brainsmatter\/BM106-OwenCarterUVCancer.mp3\">Download MP3 of Ep 106<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please vote for this podcast this month at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.podcastalley.com\/one_vote2.php?pod_id=40939\" title=\"Podcast Alley - Your Podcast Library\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podcastalley.com\/images\/podcastalley_icon.gif\" alt=\"PodcastAlley.com Feeds\" border=\"0\" height=\"15\" width=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_xclick&amp;business=brainsmatterinbox%40gmail%2ecom&amp;no_shipping=2&amp;no_note=1&amp;tax=0&amp;currency_code=USD&amp;bn=PP%2dDonationsBF&amp;charset=UTF%2d8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/x-click-but04.gif\" alt=\"Donate via Paypal\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can donate by clicking on the button above, and subscribe by <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=257301606\">subscribing in iTunes <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/iTunesWord.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have all heard of the ultraviolet index in weather reports. What is it? What does it mean to the lay person? What is the average person&#8217;s perception of the ultraviolet index? I talk to Dr Owen Carter from the CBRCC and Curtin University in Western Australia about his research into this area. &#8211; Who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,20,22],"tags":[62,81,185,369,371,238,248,249,268,269],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}