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The ancient origins of cannabis and our changing attitudes towards it

Cannabis attitudes are undergoing a seismic shift but what do really know about the drug? Our three-part special podcast series is uncovering the science of marijuana

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Cannabis related items on display at Housing Works, New York's first legal cannabis dispensary

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New Scientist recommends: Over My Dad Body and Live to 100

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A curious history of famous body parts

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Louis XIV made a surprising type of surgery popular
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New Scientist recommends You're Wrong About and Monolithic Undertow

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The 10 best science and technology podcasts right now

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4th July 2024 The Alnwick Garden, Alnwick, Northumberland, England, UK. Image shows gardeners Amy Thorp and Joe Savage unveiling the Gympie Gympie plant in the Poison Garden at The Alnwick Garden. The boundaries of the Poison Garden are kept behind black iron gates, only open on guided tours. A combination of dark, ivy-covered tunnels and flame-shaped beds creates an educational garden full of interest and intrigue, where the most dangerous plants are kept within giant cages. Visitors can learn about the poisonous plants but are strictly prohibited from touching them. Info from press release The most venomous of all plants arrives at Alnwick???s Poison Garden The Alnwick Garden???s award-winning Poison Garden is unveiling a stinger of a new addition this week with its home grown native Australian plant, Gympie Gympie. Also known as the ???Australian stinging tree???, the nettle-like shrub is known as the world???s most venomous plant and is said to be capable of delivering a sting similarly to being burnt with hot acid and electrocuted at the same time. The plant is the latest to grow in the small but deadly Poison Garden at The Alnwick Garden which hosts around 100 toxic, intoxicating and narcotic plants including Laburnum, Atropa, Belladonna, Opium Poppy and Marijuana. Picture Phil Wilkinson / The Alnwick Garden

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New Scientist recommends: The Poison Garden near Alnwick Castle

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Old father and mature daughter harvesting in a vegetable garden

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Buying Time review: Podcast explores an attempt to 'cure' ageing

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Don't Miss: Titanosaur on show at London's Natural History Museum

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Don't Miss: Explore great mysteries of physics in an ambitious podcast

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Frozen Head review: Why do some people want to be frozen after death?

We still don't know if freezing humans for a second life is possible, but a gripping new podcast from Alaina Urquhart and Ash Kelley takes a deep look inside the practice

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Rutendo Shackleton + Sebastian Echeverri BBC Earth podcast

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BBC Earth Podcast review: Get stuck into nature – wherever you find it

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The Deep-Sea Podcast review: The mind-boggling mysteries of the deep

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The Deep-Sea Podcast review: The mind-boggling mysteries of the deep

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Don't Miss: Wild tech in weekly podcast Our Ludicrous Future

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The Engineering Edge review: 3D printing meat and medicine in space

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The Engineering Edge review: 3D printing meat and medicine in space

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