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27/11/2010 GMT

Manipulation or collaboration? Nanotechnology in cell regeneration will transform injury treatment.How does music manipulate our emotions? Politics without politicans with satirist 笔.闯.翱鈥橰辞耻谤办别.

The Forum this week: exploring the boundary between manipulation and collaboration. (Watch the video of PJ O'Rourke's world-changing gadget below.)

How would our lives change if we could regrow bits of our bodies? We enter the pioneering world of nano technology, where scientists are learning how to send signals to our failing organs to regenerate themselves, with bio engineeer, Sam Stupp.

And when you peer deep into the human ear and the way our brains interpret music, what is exactly happening? According to Physicist and musician Philip Ball, it鈥檚 all about detecting and expecting patterns.

And a different sort of probing from America鈥檚 most quoted humorist: PJ O鈥橰ourke explains why politicians are a medicine we should only take in very small doses.
Illustration by Emily Kasriel. Sending nano filaments to regenerate broken organs as we listen to patterns in music prompting us to demand a cut down in the number of politicians.

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50 minutes

Last on

Mon 29 Nov 2010 01:05GMT

Chapters

  • Sam Stupp

    Director US Institute for BioNanotechnology in, Medicine and pioneer Nano guide.

    Duration: 16:13

  • SIXTY SECOND IDEA TO CHANGE THE WORLD,

    Ear buds ejected from a child鈥檚 ears at the press of a button.

    Duration: 06:38

  • 笔.闯.翱鈥橰辞耻谤办别

    Politicians are a medicine we should only take in very small doses.

    Duration: 11:17

  • Philip Ball

    How music has the power to control our emotions.

    Duration: 11:43

Broadcasts

  • Sat 27 Nov 2010 22:05GMT
  • Sun 28 Nov 2010 09:05GMT
  • Mon 29 Nov 2010 01:05GMT

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Do you think political or business leaders need to be charismatic? Or do you prefer highly competent but somewhat stern people?

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