COVID retrospective, space security, and car brake particles

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In the news pod, 4 years on from the outset of the COVID pandemic, what questions still need answering in the bid to avoid a similar emergency? Plus, why we need to start taking space security more seriously, how car brakes could be more polluting than exhaust fumes, and Paul Alexander - who lived inside an iron lung for 70 years - dies at the age of 78. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	All engine running.
0:04.0	running.
0:05.0	Absolutely genius. Get this.
0:06.0	Welcome.
0:07.0	This is the show where we bring science.
0:09.0	What that essentially means is discovery is
0:11.0	the glasses, research, technology, unbelievable.
0:15.0	Without further ado, this is the naked scientist.
0:18.0	Hello, welcome to the naked scientist.
0:20.0	This is the show where we strive to bring you the latest breakthroughs in science, technology, and medicine.
0:25.9	I'm Chris Smith and coming up this week, four years after they declared COVID-19 to be a global
0:31.1	pandemic, we speak to the World Health Organization to get their
0:34.4	recollections and perspectives. Also a surprising finding about the
0:38.6	particles shed from brake pads on our cars and we look back at the remarkable life of Paul Alexander, the man in the
0:45.9	iron lung, who died at the age of 78.
0:49.6	From Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education, this is the Naked Scientists.
0:55.0	It's been four years since the World Health Organization first declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic.
1:10.6	The ensuing outbreak, which left millions dead, was the worst in more than a century.
1:15.0	It also severely hampered the education of children and students worldwide and strict lockdowns battered the global economy.
1:25.2	I asked one of the key players at the World Health Organization for her recollections of the situation four years ago and the
1:29.7	questions that we still need answers to today about where the virus came from.
1:35.0	My name is Maria Van Kirkoff.
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