Anniversary of the Periodic Table
The Infinite Monkey Cage
BBC
4.7 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
The Periodic Table
How well do you know your Fe from your Cu, and what the heck is Np?? Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by comedian Katy Brand, Prof Polly Arnold and Prof Andrea Sella to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Dmitri Mendeleev's great achievement. They find out how scientists first realised that the elements that form the ingredients that make up our planet , are able to be organised in such a logical and ordered way, and whether its still a useful tool today. They also discover why one of the guests has been called the Free Solo equivalent of chemists because of the skill and danger involved in their work.
Producer: Alexandra Feachem
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, welcome to the Infinite, I did a very special hello, by the way. |
| 0:08.1 | That was what we call the podcast hello, |
| 0:10.0 | which means it because slightly younger people |
| 0:11.5 | offer listed to BBC Sounds for their podcasts, I go, |
| 0:13.7 | hello! Can I just explain who that is? |
| 0:16.2 | That's Robinins, I'm Brian Cox, |
| 0:18.0 | and you are listening to the BBC Infinite Monkey Cage podcast |
| 0:22.7 | on BBC Sounds, which you know because presumably you've downloaded it. |
| 0:27.8 | Hello, I'm Brian Cox. |
| 0:28.9 | And I'm Robinins. |
| 0:30.0 | Inside the Infinite Monkey Cage, we are usually looking forwards towards the future of science, |
| 0:35.1 | although in the block universe of general relativity, |
| 0:37.0 | it's not possible to arrive at a global definition of similarity, |
| 0:39.5 | and therefore the difference between the past and the future is not well defined. |
| 0:42.0 | This means in turn that this introduction is not well defined, |
| 0:44.1 | and I shouldn't really set it. |
| 0:45.4 | This, by the way, is one of the reasons that Brian is very rarely on any BBC 2 |
| 0:49.1 | or Channel 5 nostalgia shows, right? |
| 0:51.3 | If you try and put him on something like, |
| 0:53.2 | I love the 70s ago. |
| 0:54.6 | So, tell us a little bit about the No-Land. |
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