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Suicide – By the 1990s, the science of psychiatry in the US had focused its attention on depression, which has hit one profession especially hard. Your pet dog can give you clues about your community’s health, but what about your dog’s health? There may not be anyone to take care of your pet in the future since there is such a high suicide rate among veterinarians.

It’s a definite fact that veterinarians (in the UK anyway) are 4 times as likely to commit suicide than the general public to commit suicide: 5 or 6 of the UK’s 16,000 veterinarians kill themselves every year.
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For your smartphone – Science triumphs again! If you’ve got a “smartphone,” which is the “Swiss Army Knife” of cell phones, you’re probably constantly looking for new “apps” to buy for it. Here’s one you didn’t expect: an app that detects toxic chemicals in the atmosphere.
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There’s a science of show biz! Twitter may be a tool that can not only predict which films will be hits (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show), but one which may actually be able to create an audience for a movie. Word of mouth builds an audience: Movie makers have long known that while advertising and major stars may create a big first weekend, no film has “legs” unless people tell their friends about it.
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It turns out that there are more problems with dining on sushi than just the fear of eating an endangered mammal. According to scientists, eating hot dogs can lead to genetic changes, but can it be the same for a healthy food like sushi?

Sushi can transfer specific genes into the human intestines, but ONLY if it is wrapped in seaweed, since the enzyme responsible for this comes from bacteria living on seaweed called Nori, which is the kind traditionally used to wrap sushi rolls.

In BBC News, Victoria Gill quotes researcher Mirjam Czjzek as saying that when they tested Japanese people, “Five out of the 13 people had this same gene [in their gut bacteria].” But when the researchers tested the gut bacteria of people in the US, “None of them had the gene.” read more