Avian flu

BBC Inside Science

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Technology, Science

4.5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Avian or bird flu is normally seasonal, disappearing as migratory birds leave for winter. However a new strain which seems to spread more easily between wild birds and into poultry has led to the deaths of far more birds than usual. David Steel, Nature Reserve Manager on the Isle of May relates his observations of the effects on seabirds. And Nicola Lewis, Director of the Worldwide Influenza Centre at the Francis Crick Institute tells us why this particular stain is so severe. Climategate was a strange kind of scandal, based entirely on misinformation pushed by climate change deniers. In his new book Hot air, shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment science book prize, Climate scientist Peter Stott assess the impact of their campaign. Pong was a very basic video game developed in the 1970s, now Australian researchers have trained human brain cells in a dish to play the game, Dr Brett Kagan from Cortical Labs explains why.

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0:00.0	Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to introduce myself.
0:03.7	My name's Stevie Middleton and I'm a BBC Commissioner for a load of sport podcasts.
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0:12.2	pundits and the biggest sport stars.
0:14.3	Together we bring you untold stories and fascinating insights straight from the players'
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0:41.2	Hello, you lovely curious minded people.
0:43.4	This is the podcast edition of BBC Inside Science, originally broadcast on Thursday the 13th
0:48.5	of October 2022.
0:50.3	I'm Victoria Gill.
0:51.9	This week we're examining decades of climate change denial and we're asking one climate
0:56.6	researcher how misinformation was used to downplay the impacts of global heating and
1:01.6	how that affected the scientific effort to raise the alarm and persuade world leaders
1:06.0	to act on rising temperatures.
1:08.8	And we're finding out exactly how a dish of human brain cells has been trained to play
1:12.8	a 1970s video game.
1:17.6	But first, bird flu.
1:20.0	This summer the RSPB said that the most recent outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza
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