Did Crowdscience change your life?
CrowdScience
BBC
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
As CrowdScience celebrates its third birthday, the team takes time to revisit some of our early episodes, and catch up with listeners to discover if the answers we uncovered changed the course of their lives? We hear from Zach, who has learned to let go of a possibly lost memory and Erin, who discovered technology could hold the key to finding the man of her dreams. And two years after he emailed to ask why he couldn’t kick his habit, we ash Sharif whether he has finally managed to stop smoking?
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| 0:00.0 | Take some time for yourself with soothing classical music from the mindful mix, the Science of |
| 0:07.0 | Happiness Podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | For the last 20 years I've dedicated my career to exploring the science of living a happier more meaningful life and I want |
| 0:14.4 | to share that science with you. |
| 0:16.1 | And just one thing, deep calm with Michael Mosley. |
| 0:19.4 | I want to help you tap in to your hidden relaxation response system and open the door to that |
| 0:25.5 | calmer place within. Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:29.7 | Hello and welcome to Crowd Science, the show that takes your science questions and travels the globe to find answers. |
| 0:40.0 | It's three years now since we started doing things like flying into hurricanes, |
| 0:46.6 | or tramping through the jungle looking for rats. |
| 0:52.1 | Both adventures sparked by your queries. |
| 0:54.6 | Our extensive back catalog is available on the BBC World Service website and I want to mark our third birthday |
| 1:05.1 | by asking a question of our own. Can crowd science change your life? From reading |
| 1:11.4 | some of your emails it turns out the answer is yes |
| 1:14.1 | Most of the stuff that I've learned have just been kind of listening to a podcast very |
| 1:19.2 | wise our show investigates everything from astronomy to zoology and some of you have contacted us in the most extreme of circumstances like listener Kelly. |
| 1:30.0 | I was evacuated for Hurricane Irma and I was in a in a hotel room in Charlotte, North Carolina, |
| 1:37.0 | waiting to see what's going to happen to my home. |
| 1:40.0 | And I thought, what the heck, I'll write these guys |
| 1:42.0 | and see what they can dig up. |
| 1:43.4 | And at the end it said send in your questions and I said well you know how nice would it be if we could |
| 1:50.0 | avoid this and so I sent an email on my phone. You know beyond this story there's |
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