quangobaudAnother attempt to make Quantum Computing sound like a real thing.
Tom Whipple made me laugh.
'Nothing lasts forever ... except PFAS chemicals!'
(Yea tho ye olde Mon Key Charge hath been most unjustly deaded, the young InSouciance (despite great mi6 evil) came out with an almost facsimile #TIMC quality panel-show episode on Thursday 2026-02-19 (even though Marnie is annoying).)
BBC Inside Science
Wood, Smoke and Science: Cooking over fire
BBC Inside Science
For this special festival recording of BBC Radio 4’s Inside Science, the fire pit is our science lab. Marnie Chesterton brings a sprinkling of chemistry and just a squeeze of paleoanthropology as we invite you to explore the science and human history of cooking over fire.
Recorded at Abergavenny Food festival 2025 with chef Sam Evans of Hangfire BBQ, archaeobotanical scientist Dr Ceren Kabukcu and Dr Joanna Buckley from the Royal Society of Chemistry
For more fascinating science content, you can head to bbc.co.uk, search for BBC Inside Science and follow the links to The Open University.
Presenter: Marnie Chesterton.
Producers: Tim Dodd and Clare Salisbury.
Programme Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth
Editor: Martin Smith
(... The Material World was much better than either .)
#WomenWillBeGirls #CookingTips #InsideScience #BBCRadio4 #BBCInsideScience
(new science programme on Radio4!)
(... well, it feels renewed ...)
(still worth shouting at 👍)
Inside Science 2025-12-11 1630-1700
Would our ancestors have benefited from early neanderthals making fire?
BBC Inside Science
400 thousand years ago our early human cousins dropped a lighter in a field in the East of England; evidence that was uncovered this week and suggests that early neanderthals might have made fire 350 thousand years earlier than we previously thought. Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes is honorary researcher at the universities of Cambridge and Liverpool and author of Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art. She explains what this new discovery could mean for our own ancestors.
Should we genetically modify our farmed salmon to prevent it breeding with their wild relatives? Dr William Perry from Cardiff University thinks this could help the endangered wild Atlantic salmon recover it’s numbers.
And Lizzie Gibney, Senior Physics Reporter at Nature joins Tom Whipple to dig into the new science released this week.
ƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞIs Marnie Chesterton OK?
Or has the BBC gone stupid?
I just heard her sign off BBC Inside Science saying that she wasn't going to be doing the programme regularly any more without giving any reason. She has for so long been one of the very best radio voices the BBC have.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002l3ht
#BBC #Science #InsideScience #BBCInsideScience #education #WTF
#MarnieChesterton
Or has the BBC gone stupid?
I just heard her sign off BBC Inside Science saying that she wasn't going to be doing the programme regularly any more without giving any reason. She has for so long been one of the very best radio voices the BBC have.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002l3ht
#BBC #Science #InsideScience #BBCInsideScience #education #WTF
#MarnieChesterton
BBCInsideScience just did a massive Cricket shit in the middle of what is supposed to be a Science programme. They're going on about Sports statistics.
presenter Tom Whipple (science writer for the Times newspaper) said "Cricket is the Queen of Science"
#BBCRadio4 #BBCInsideScience #Mi6
(... at least it wasn't the usual Radio4 going blah blah blahHarry Potter blah blah blah ...)
Always great to listen to Mi6 come up with a rationale for trophy hunting on a BBC science programme. 👍
#AdamHart "Conservation Scientist"
David Cantrell 🏏In between coughs and sneezes (for lo, I am Ill) I have been drinking copious tea and listening to #podcasts. During the bit on #BBCInsideScience where they talked about a paper on contagious urination amongst #chimpanzees, I desperately needed a piss. I think that means I did a successful #replication, which is why I have written up this important scientific result for publication, here. #NobelPrize
ColOceans, iron and ocean biomass restoration.
How the overall demise of whaling, didn't restore krill populations.
[BBC Inside Science] How Whales Farmed For Food, COP progress, and The Last Stargazers #bbcInsideScience
https://podcastaddict.com/episode/130805772 via @PodcastAddict
How Whales Farmed For Food, COP progress, and The Last Stargazers • BBC Inside Science - via Podcast Addict
Gaia Vince hears how blue whales' huge appetites and energetic eating behaviours helped generate more food for themselves. Also, an update from COP26, and Emily Levesque on The Last Stargazers. New research published this week in the journal Nature reveals new insights into blue whales eating habits. Matthew Savoca and colleagues suggest these biggest of marine animals actually eat up to three times the mass of krill previously estimated. And they do this by finding the blooms of krill and using a spectacular lunging approach to open their massive mouths and filter the gulp of seawater for tonnes of food. But how come, since the near destruction of their population by commercial whaling in the twentieth century, are current krill populations lower than when the voracious whales themselves were far more numerous? Shouldn't there be more krill now than then? The answer, as Victor Smetacek, of the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, describes to Gaia is that whales themselves help to keep iron in the upper waters of the southern oceans, re-fertilizing it for the lower ecosystem member like phytoplankton, and their powerful diving lunges and defecation effectively plough the waters, akin to herds of bison treading manure into prehistoric grass plains. Former GSO David King, of the Centre For Climate Repair at Cambridge University, is beginning experiments next year that seek to mimic this whale-defecation effect to bring about eventual repopulation of whales and fish to allow the oceans to restart this historical cycle. From Glasgow, above the hubbub of delegates and dignitaries CarbonBrief's deputy editor Simon Evans talks to Gaia about his perceptions of progress so far at the COP26 climate summit. Amongst the flurry of declarations so far this week, what are the details and how do they add up towards our eventual recovery back down to the 1.5C rise everybody is talking about? And in the latest of Inside Science's interviews with shortlisted finalists of this year's Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize, Prof Emily Levesque, an astronomer at Washington State University tells Marnie Chesterton of her adventures and astronomical anecdotes at some of the world's most famous observatories. Researching her book,
doctorow2 emails to #BBCInsideScience asserting that the Out of Africa hypothesis for the origin of Homo sapiens is absurd/liberal:
* "Will you STOP this 'out of Africa' nonsense?"
* "I have a sneaking feeling that humans all coming from Africa is a liberal idea to bind us together"
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AdamRutherford/status/1151414416019197952
Dr Adam Rutherford on Twitter
“2 emails to #BBCInsideScience asserting that the Out of Africa hypothesis for the origin of Homo sapiens is absurd/liberal: * "Will you STOP this 'out of Africa' nonsense?" * "I have a sneaking feeling that humans all coming from Africa is a liberal idea to bind us together"”