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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Crowd Control, Football Hooligans and Singing Mosquitoes

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6957 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2006

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

I predict a riot... or not. This week we're joined by crowd control experts Dr Clifford Stott, from Liverpool University, and Dr John Drury, from Sussex University, wholl be discussing why violence kicks off at football matches, how to spot a spat and the science of mass evacuation. Taking us on a flight of fancy, Dr Gay Gibson, from the University of Greenwich, who describes her research into the harmonious music of mosquitoes, and in Kitchen Science, Derek Thorne bangs out a tune from an oven shelf... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Transcript

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0:00.0

Stripping down science, the naked scientists.

0:05.0

Hello, welcome to this week's edition of the naked scientists.

0:10.0

This week we're going in search of the reason that a crowd turns into a riot.

0:14.4

We'll be talking to Clifford Stott from the University of Liverpool who works on football

0:18.5

hooliganism and also John Drury from the University of Sussex and one of the things we'll be looking at

0:23.8

is the best way to get people out of a dangerous situation and evacuated to safety.

0:29.2

Hi guys.

0:30.2

Hello.

0:31.2

And to take a completely different flight of fancy, Gay Gibson's here from the University of Greenwich,

0:36.0

and she works on how it is that a male mosquito can spot a female mosquito and vice versa, cat.

0:42.0

Always seems to be me, they're just always trying to make

0:44.8

with me no hate them anyway we're going to be finding out the scientific way and not

0:49.4

to forget those email attachments look of recognition around everyone here.

0:54.4

Yeah, how many times you've sent that big email to loads of people at work?

0:57.6

Find and close the attachment. Oh no, sorry everyone. Anyway, so scientists have been on the case with that.

1:04.0

A scientist has been measuring happiness.

1:06.0

So which countries around the world are happiest, which are the most miserable?

1:10.0

Here's a quick teaser for you.

1:12.0

Are we happier or less happy than France here in the UK?

1:17.0

What do you reckon?

1:18.0

I reckon the French are happier than we are. I reckon gay, what do you think?

1:22.0

Could be. I reckon I are even happier.

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