Crowd Control, Football Hooligans and Singing Mosquitoes
The Naked Scientists Podcast
Dr Chris Smith
4.6 • 957 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2006
⏱️ 57 minutes
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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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