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    The Health Benefits Of Trees & Other Plants

    The Health Benefits Of Trees & Other Plants

    Tom and Barbara Good from TV’s popular sitcom The Good Life raised chickens and goats in their back garden, they grew fruit and vegetables in their allotment and they generated their own electricity and made their own clothes. But I’m not sure if their self sufficient lifestyle stretched to eating trees? But apparently the health benefits of trees include chewing willow bark to suppress pain, and the alder tree has been used for bruises coughs and sore throats... Matthew Jebb is director of the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland in Glasnevin, and he joins Derek, Richard and Eanna to tell us ...

    http://www.rte.ie/radio1/mooney/programmes/2013/0301/370253-friday-march-1st-2013/?clipid=1011173
    60th Anniversary Of DNA Double Helix Discovery

    60th Anniversary Of DNA Double Helix Discovery

    Yesterday was the 60th anniversary of the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA. Matthew Jebb tells us why this was so significant, and about the Irish link to the discovery.  For more information, you can read more by clicking here: www.botanicgardens.ie/news/DNA. Jim Watson, who was one of those who discovered the double helix structure, will be coming to the Botanic Gardens and Trinity College in April. Lecture: What is DNA? by Matthew Jebb. This lecture will take place at the National Botanic Gardens on Wednesday, March 20th. It will explain, in layman's terms, what DNA is and how it was discovered. The story ...

    http://www.rte.ie/radio1/mooney/programmes/2013/0301/370253-friday-march-1st-2013/?clipid=1011174

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