Science Weekly podcast: Monitoring climate change in the Antarctic
We speak to Professor Chris Turney on a satellite phone from Antarctica. He's out there monitoring climate change.
Apparently cosmogenic dating is nothing like internet dating. Glad we cleared that one up.
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Robin McKie and Nell Boase are in the studio to discuss this year's Edge Question: What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?
The founder of edge.org John Brockman tells us how they dreamed up the idea of picking the brains of the world's leading thinkers, and one of the brains, social media expert Clay Shirky, explains his answer to this year's question.
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