16 November 2017: Ancient inequality & bacterial communication
Nature Podcast
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🗓️ 15 November 2017
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Nature. |
| 0:02.0 | In an experiment, I don't know yet. |
| 0:06.0 | Why is Blight so far? |
| 0:08.0 | Like, it sounds so simple. |
| 0:09.0 | They had no idea. |
| 0:11.0 | But now the data's people. |
| 0:12.0 | I find this not only refreshing, but at some level astounding. |
| 0:20.0 | Nature. |
| 0:25.5 | Welcome back to the Nature podcast. |
| 0:30.2 | This week, we'll be learning what ancient houses can tell us about inequality. |
| 0:34.7 | And we'll also be taking a look at a bacterial communication system. |
| 0:38.7 | This is the nature podcast for November the 16th, 2017. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm Adam Levy. |
| 0:41.6 | And I'm Benjamin Thompson. |
| 0:49.1 | First up today, we've got a bit of an unusual topic for the Nature podcast. |
| 0:55.4 | We spotted a paper in this week's issue about how inequality in a society could have something to do with whether that society has cows. |
| 0:59.6 | Charmni Bundell has been finding out more. |
| 1:02.8 | Economic inequality in the wealth gap sound like very modern topics. |
| 1:06.5 | Are the rich getting richer and the poor poorer? |
| 1:09.2 | Tim Kohler is interested in how patterns of wealth change, |
| 1:11.6 | in particular this gap between rich and poor. |
| 1:14.6 | But he's not looking at modern societies. |
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