Reação Espontânea and 1+1 Episode 5: Overview

Reação Espontânea

Episode 5: Ageing

Air date: February 23rd, 2013

This week we’re going on a cross-country trip. Our first stop takes us to Oeiras, to the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC) where we meet Miguel Godinho, a researcher that’s studying how the telomerase enzyme influences ageing and how a small fish can help us slow down this process. Porto is the next destination where we find Alberto Queiroz, a “young 88-year-old” with a passion for dancing. Finally we visit Cláudia in Viseu. Cláudia is a 14-year-old girl who suffers from Progeria a genetic disorder that speeds-up the ageing process. The most recent breakthroughs in the field of ageing genetics in a brand new episode of Reação Espontânea.

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Episode 5: Playing the Odds

Air date: February 23rd, 2013

After dropping off his mother at home from a weekend trip, Rui meets Marta at a café. They’re in luck, the café is having a promotion where if they can solve a certain riddle they only get to pay for 80% of their order. In a house with three switches and a lamp behind a closed door how can you find out which switch turns on the light with only one chance to look inside? Will our friends be able to solve this riddle, or will they need the help of Eugénio Compasso? Also,   does Marta know an easy way to calculate how many hugs can a group of 10 people give each other? Playing the odds on an all-new 1+1.