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Unexpected Elements

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Unexpected Elements

BBC

Science

4.4567 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The cricket world cup has us looking at the science of spitting on cricket balls, particle accelerators, and insect sound engineers.

Also on the program, how AI is breaking into e-commerce, why do we get in the middle of the night, and is a fat flightless parrot the world's greatest bird?

Transcript

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0:00.0

In 2019, we began investigating the disappearance of Dr. Ruzha Ignatva.

0:08.0

I believe we are a very special network.

0:10.0

A scammer who stole billions from investors around the world.

0:15.0

She's on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list.

0:18.0

And now, we have some unmissable updates. She has money and when you have

0:23.0

money you have power. Join me, Jamie Bartlett, as the hunt for the missing crypto queen continues.

0:29.5

Listen first on BBC Sounds. The global story provides fresh perspective on the stories that matter

0:36.9

with me, Katia Adler and the BBC's

0:39.7

worldwide network of journalists and reporters. Coming soon from the BBC World Service,

0:45.8

search for the global story wherever you get your BBC podcasts.

1:02.4

Did you know that certain schools in Scotland give their children an extra week of holiday around the end of October?

1:06.3

It's called the tattie holiday, tatty being Scots for potato.

1:12.0

Back in the 1940s, children would go missing from school at about the same time each year,

1:18.7

kept home to help with the potato harvest. So teachers figured they may as well give them the time off anyway.

1:23.9

Nowadays, the harvesting is mechanised, but the holiday week lingers on.

1:30.1

Last week, I went to help a friend with his olive harvest. Mechanisation, a shaking stick, is now also part of this process, but it's still mainly hard physical labour, beating

1:36.6

branches, dragging nets, climbing trees. It's given me a renewed respect for anyone with a physical

1:42.5

job. I lasted three days. I'm Marnie

1:45.8

Chasterton from the BBC World Service. This is unexpected elements. This show isn't just me. It's a team effort harvesting the best of the world's science-related news.

2:09.4

From Massachusetts in America, science journalist Kai Cooper Schmidt. Hello.

2:14.5

Hey, Mahony. Good morning.

2:16.5

And from New Haven, Connecticut, Yang Yang Chen.

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