An unexpected burger
Unexpected Elements
BBC
4.4 • 567 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Could a scientific burger compete against the fast food giants? We fear not!
You will need: • Meat - A tick capable of inducing alpha gal syndrome, a disease that makes you allergic to red meat. • Garnish - Lettuce grown in space. (WARNING: it is more susceptible to bacterial infection than that grown on Earth). • Buns - A short but thick guide to the human buttocks with Heather Radke. Why do we humans have such large behinds? • Something sweet - We chose the humble baobab seed. An unusual tree indigenous to Madagascar, the subject of an incredibly successful conservation project. • Fries - Of course! The humble potato is threatened by climate change, what is being done to futureproof it?
Instructions: • Who are we kidding! There is no scientific method! • Bang it all together and feast your ears on this week’s show!
Presenter: Marnie Chesterton Panellists: Candice Bailey and Affelia Wibisono Producers: Harrison Lewis, Julia Ravey, Ben Motley and Noa Dowling
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| 0:29.5 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.5 | This week, I've been reading a book about borders that shaped the world. |
| 0:40.4 | And yes, whilst most of those are the national ones, |
| 0:43.9 | I've been grabbed by the ones we don't normally think about. |
| 0:47.9 | Someone has had to think about who owns the seabeds |
| 0:51.3 | and all the countries that put in a claim to own Antarctica. |
| 0:55.6 | And what about the airspace above your heads? |
| 0:58.3 | Yep, there's an international committee to carve that up, |
| 1:01.6 | with an eye to helping planes fly from A to B without going via Q. |
| 1:06.1 | It always ends up with the lawyers, |
| 1:08.6 | because even if countries in the 1960s make a high-minded decision |
| 1:13.1 | that space is not subject to claims of sovereignty, that's not enough to stop a guy |
| 1:18.7 | spotting a loophole in the 1980s, claiming the moon for himself and selling it off acre by acre. |
| 1:26.8 | I'm Marnie Chesterton from the BBC World Service. |
| 1:29.7 | This is Unexpected Elements. |
| 1:49.3 | As ever, I'm joined by an international panel in Johannesburg, South Africa. |
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