Amazonian fires likely to worsen
Unexpected Elements
BBC
4.4 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2019
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
As fires across the amazon basin continue to burn, we speak to the researchers watching from space and from the ground. Also, new pictures back from the surface of asteroid Ryugu thanks to Germany’s MASCOT lander, part of the Japanese Hyabusa2 mission, give insights into the clay from which the solar system was originally formed, and Greenland’s top geologist gives his valuation of his native island for prospective purchasers.
Many of us struggle to motivate ourselves to carry out certain tasks, from hanging out the washing to writing a job application. How can we best motivate ourselves? And how can we avoid procrastination? Listener Moses in Uganda wants to find out. Anand Jagatia puts science to the test as he trains and participates in an open water swimming race which Marnie Chesterton has kindly volunteered him for.
(Photo: Wildfires in Amazon rainforest. Credit: REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino)
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| 0:38.7 | And if you're keen to get onto the crowd's science report on procrastination, |
| 0:43.4 | you're just going to have to wait another half an hour. |
| 0:46.8 | Not my thought, though, this would be very good advice for me. |
| 0:50.6 | So why are you procrastinating, right? |
| 0:52.2 | It might be fears about getting going with things. |
| 0:54.1 | Will it be good enough? |
| 0:55.3 | And so I think you have to identify some of those negative feelings |
| 0:58.3 | and then reframe them from a more of positive, self-compassionate manner |
| 1:02.6 | and just sort of treat yourself with a bit of kindness. |
| 1:04.7 | The crowd science will be getting into what's going on |
| 1:07.6 | when we put bad things off in half an hour. |
| 1:11.0 | Before that, on science and action, the wait is over for the first results from the mascot lander, |
| 1:16.5 | which touched down on the tiny asteroid Ryugu last October. |
| 1:20.2 | And the weight's been worth it, because mascot has been sending back secrets from the birth of the solar system. |
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