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Can your horoscope determine which diseases you’ll develop?

25/06/2015

Horoscope Health

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Can your horoscope predict which diseases you’ll develop? More Or Less takes a close look

More Or Less asks if your horoscope can predict which diseases you’ll develop, Trending meets an Indian campaigner against rape videos & the Why Factor looks at the chilli pepper.

Can your horoscope predict which diseases you’ll develop? Recent media reports say so – and the claim’s based on a study by scientists from the prestigious Columbia University. More or Less takes a closer look, and hears from its lead author, Dr Nicholas Tatonetti. And is it time to change the maths behind the Duckworth-Lewis method, used to sort out rain affected cricket matches?    
BBC Trending hears from a woman in India who discovered that men were sharing videos of rape on WhatsApp, a private chat app. In response, she uploaded the videos to YouTube to ‘shame’ the rapists, but was she right to do so? We ask why the President of Uzbekistan suddenly changed the names of stations in the capital with no prior warning for passengers. And how the ancient art of calligraphy is experiencing a renaissance on social media. 
In the Why Factor, Mike Williams braves  the heat of the chilli pepper to find out why we eat something that causes us pain and fools our brains with its complex chemistry.   

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