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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
#TomWhipple #InsideScience #BBCInsideScience #BBCRadio4 -
(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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I just listened to the new BBC Inside Science presenter - some twat they've nabbed from 'The Times' - bloody awful.
What the actual fuck have the BBC done with all their top notch science journalists; Marnie Chesterton, Roland Pease and Adam Rutherford?
What the hell is going on?
https://www.instagram.com/p/DQR5DEaDO0F/?img_index=1#InsideScience
#Radio4
#MarnieChesterton
#ScienceCommunication #ScienceEducation #ScienceNews #AnotherBBCFuckUp #BBC #BBCRadio -
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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The #climate cost of #war, and a scimitar tooth kitten from the permafrost. Top #InsideScience from the BBC this week
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The #climate cost of #war, and a scimitar tooth kitten from the permafrost. Top #InsideScience from the BBC this week
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Utter nonsense on @BBCRadio4 #InsideScience, talking about "the most prized lawn in the country" in the wrong part of London. Why go to #Wimbledon to talk about the square at #Lords? AELTC isn't even the most prized bit of grass in Wimbledon - that's #AFCWimbledon. #cricket #tennis #wombles
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Utter nonsense on @BBCRadio4 #InsideScience, talking about "the most prized lawn in the country" in the wrong part of London. Why go to #Wimbledon to talk about the square at #Lords? AELTC isn't even the most prized bit of grass in Wimbledon - that's #AFCWimbledon. #cricket #tennis #wombles
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Listening to BBC Radio 4 #InsideScience on #recycling, with an expert warning about bottle return schemes serving only the middle class environmentally-aware. This based on the supposed deterrent effect of a 20p surcharge.
In Denmark, 25 years ago, we were all returning standardised bottles for a deposit refund. Everyone, and no-one gave it a second thought.
The solution is to mandate recyclable packaging. If folk can't learn to behave responsibly, force them.