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"two orca working closely together to smash a sunfish to smithereens youtube"
BBC Inside Science
Marine Biologist Kathryn Ayres, from the non-profit organisation Beneath the Waves, describes a newly observed behaviour in orcas in which they collaboratively swim so hard into a dead sunfish it explodes.
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"two orca working closely together to smash a sunfish to smithereens youtube"
BBC Inside Science
Marine Biologist Kathryn Ayres, from the non-profit organisation Beneath the Waves, describes a newly observed behaviour in orcas in which they collaboratively swim so hard into a dead sunfish it explodes.
Is it a teachable moment for their young or is it just for fun? -
Tom Whipple has Beaver Anal Glands.
Testing Testosterone Testing
BBC Inside ScienceSecretary of Defence Pete Hegseth has announced that the US military will be screening military personnel aged 30 and older for testosterone deficiency. Those found with low testosterone levels will be offered voluntary hormone replacement therapy. The secretary says this is to ensure “a healthy, capable, and decisively dominant fighting force”. Tom Whipple is joined by Professor Joe Herbert from the University of Cambridge to discuss why jacking soldiers up with testosterone may be the best idea. [NS1.1]
Marine Biologist Kathryn Ayres, from the non-profit organisation Beneath the Waves, describes a newly observed behaviour in orcas in which they collaboratively swim so hard into a dead sunfish it explodes. Is it a teachable moment for their young or is it just for fun?
Finally, we have Kit Yates, our resident mathematician, to reassure Tom that although AI might one day actually kill [NS2.1]us all, at least it can disprove an 87-year-old mathematics conjecture[NS3.1].
Presenter: Tom Whipple
Producer: Dan Welsh, Alex Mansfield, Imy Harper, Tabitha Taylor Buck
Editor: Martin Smith
Production Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth2026-07-23 1630-1700
( ... would actually pay #BBCLicenceFee for this content ... maybe ...)
#Hegseth #Orca
#TomWhipple #InsideScience #BBCInsideScience #BBCRadio4 -
Tom Whipple has Beaver Anal Glands.
Testing Testosterone Testing
BBC Inside ScienceSecretary of Defence Pete Hegseth has announced that the US military will be screening military personnel aged 30 and older for testosterone deficiency. Those found with low testosterone levels will be offered voluntary hormone replacement therapy. The secretary says this is to ensure “a healthy, capable, and decisively dominant fighting force”. Tom Whipple is joined by Professor Joe Herbert from the University of Cambridge to discuss why jacking soldiers up with testosterone may be the best idea. [NS1.1]
Marine Biologist Kathryn Ayres, from the non-profit organisation Beneath the Waves, describes a newly observed behaviour in orcas in which they collaboratively swim so hard into a dead sunfish it explodes. Is it a teachable moment for their young or is it just for fun?
Finally, we have Kit Yates, our resident mathematician, to reassure Tom that although AI might one day actually kill [NS2.1]us all, at least it can disprove an 87-year-old mathematics conjecture[NS3.1].
Presenter: Tom Whipple
Producer: Dan Welsh, Alex Mansfield, Imy Harper, Tabitha Taylor Buck
Editor: Martin Smith
Production Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth2026-07-23 1630-1700
( ... would actually pay #BBCLicenceFee for this content ... maybe ...)
#Hegseth #Orca
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Another attempt to make Quantum Computing sound like a real thing.
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Another attempt to make Quantum Computing sound like a real thing.
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Tom Whipple made me laugh.
'Nothing lasts forever ... except PFAS chemicals!'
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Tom Whipple made me laugh.
'Nothing lasts forever ... except PFAS chemicals!'
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(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 ScienceFor 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
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(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 ScienceFor 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
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(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.
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(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.
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Is 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
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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 ...)
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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 ...)
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Always great to listen to Mi6 come up with a rationale for trophy hunting on a BBC science programme. 👍
#AdamHart "Conservation Scientist"
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Always great to listen to Mi6 come up with a rationale for trophy hunting on a BBC science programme. 👍
#AdamHart "Conservation Scientist"
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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
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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
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Part of reducing carbon emmissions is changing people's eating habits to include less meat.
One way to accomplish that would be to provide school lunches that have at least 3 vegetarian meals per week.
That would mean that in this time of rising costs we know that kids are getting fed and have the fuel to learn, but it would also be teaching them an alternative diet and that non-meat options can be just as tasty.
Idea sparked by listening to #BBCInsideScience
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Part of reducing carbon emmissions is changing people's eating habits to include less meat.
One way to accomplish that would be to provide school lunches that have at least 3 vegetarian meals per week.
That would mean that in this time of rising costs we know that kids are getting fed and have the fuel to learn, but it would also be teaching them an alternative diet and that non-meat options can be just as tasty.
Idea sparked by listening to #BBCInsideScience
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Oceans, 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 -
Oceans, 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