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Flora often shows up as a guest on the CNET UK podcast, but she hosted the first show of 2010 thanks to the rest of the crew being lost in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show. In 2010, Flora will be co-hosting the show with its regular host, Ian Morris.
The craving is off the scale in Las Vegas this week, where all the latest tech is being shown off at the Consumer Electronics Show. Regular podcast host Ian Morris is there, along with Cravers Rory Reid and Rich Trenholm, stalking the best of the best on the strip. This week on the podcast, we spoke to Ian over the phone from the CNET lair at the top of the Mandalay Bay Hotel to find out more about the tech that’s got everyone talking at this year’s CES.
We also talked about sexy times on the Internet thanks to Britain’s big freeze, how Europe’s answer to GPS is almost not vapourware anymore, and the New Year Honours for British videogame makers.
Finally, in WTF we asked: “Would the Nexus One flip a tortoise on to its back in the desert, and if so, would it turn it back over again?”
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Jon Kuniholm sits in front of the telly and plays Guitar Hero, the music video game. He’s sailing through Pat Benetar’s classic, Hit Me with Your Best Shot.
But unlike most players, he doesn’t strum a little plastic guitar with his hands; Kuniholm’s right arm is amputated just below the elbow.
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Flora reported from the UK Atomic Energy Authority in Culham, near Oxford—visiting a 200-year-old iron forge on the way!
One of the properties of iron and steel that have made than so good for building materials is that they are pliable at temperatures much lower than their melting point—making them easy to mould and work. But this property makes them fail at very high temperatures—this is what happened during the fires at the World Trade Centre.
Scientists working at the UK’s Atomic Energy Authority are hoping to develop a super-strong steel to withstand the million degree temperatures of their fusion reactors. But first they have to find out why steel goes weak when it gets hot—it’s all to do with magnetism.
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Flora reported on CDH for Health Check, and her interview with Dr Peter Goadsby was used for a Factfile segment on the same programme.
Headaches are common, but if someone’s symptoms persist for more than fifteen days a month, then they are said to be suffering from a condition called chronic daily headache.
Melanie Carpigo has headaches almost all the time ever since she had a benign tumour removed from the base of her brain five years ago.
She has to take so many painkillers that when she became pregnant there was a risk that her baby might be born with a dependency on drugs.
Luckily the baby was fine, but the headaches are still going on.
She talks to Flora Graham about living with chronic daily headaches.
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Flora researched and edited this pre-recorded, as-live segment for the Radio 4 programme Material World.
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Flora produced and co-presented this short segment for the World Service programme Health Check.
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Flora produced the segment on the unexpected psychology discoveries of a team of galaxy-hunting astronomers for the World Service programme Science in Action. She also edited the segment on primate extinction.
Flora could be heard pontificating on Science in the Making, a Radio 4 programme about the craft of science, featuring Stephen Webster from Imperial College London.
