Bangor University

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So hello, everybody, and welcome to today's episode.

I'm Tracey O'Neill, your host.

And today we're going to be taking a closer look at how the arts can improve health and well-being.

And we'll also look at the economic impact they have on health care services, specifically in Wales.

And I'm really happy to be joined by Jacob Davis, a researcher from the Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation at Bangor University.

So a big welcome to you, Jacob.

And mindfulness is a huge passion of mine.

I did my master's at Bangor University in mindfulness and Buddhist practices and just really, really keen interest in sort of the practice.

But I think just because it's helped me enormously and continues to do that.

Yeah.

So I'm Nathan Abrams.

I'm currently a professor in film at Bangor University and have been here since 2006, where I've been teaching on a variety of film modules.

And before that, I taught US history from pretty much the foundation of the United States to the present.

So I have a lot of background in history as well as film studies.

Is there anything that you would like to promote, anything you've got coming out, or any way that people can get in touch with you if they want to talk more about food and types of Jewishness depicted on film?

Yeah, you can find me on all the usual social media networks.

I'm easily findable at Bangor University.

Do check out my co-written biography of of kubrick kubrick and odyssey that i co-wrote with robert kolka whose um essay in the cinema of loneliness on spielberg influenced me for this um in in uh for my article on on munich and in fact i think i sent him um a draft of what i wrote before we actually started collaborating and i think it was one of the um uh, uh, stages along the way of Robert and I collaborating on two books together.

Okay.

My sister went to Bangor University, and then people go, "Bang her." I go, "No, you won't."

[laughs] It's not...

This is sad, isn't it? That's your sister.

[logo whooshing] Back here on Earth, researchers are discovering just how much damage this summer's wildfires did beneath the surface in Wales, and it wasn't just the vegetation that burned.

Researchers from Bangor University say some of the fires became hot enough to essentially cook the soil itself.

Some of the hillsides lost as much as four inches of topsoil, and researchers estimate that soil took roughly 4,000 years to develop.

Along with the soil, those areas also lost stored water, carbon, and nutrients, creating damage that could take generations to repair.

Fa'que y a eu des études qui suggèrent que même les coureurs élites voient leur performance diminuer après une tâche de 45 minutes sur l'ordinateur.

Fa'que à la base, y a eu, euh, bon l'équipe de recherche dirigée par Samuel Marcora, à l'Université de Bangor, à Wales, avait publié un article dans le Journal of Applied Physiology qui disait, qui était intitulé : « La fatigue mentale altère la performance physique chez l'humain.

» Bon, ça, c'est clair.

[rire] Puis c'est une étude qui avait été faite sur 90 personnes.

We're on the precipice here of catastrophe as a species that we're allowing our kids to enter into these relationships.

There was a study by Bangor University recently that they surveyed over a thousand 13 to 18 year olds.

And they found that a third of those found their relationships with AI bots and AI chat more helpful and more effective.

more meaningful than their real life relationships.