Does Asking Questions Improve Your Memory?
CrowdScience
BBC
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
As the show that takes your questions and turns them into audio adventures reaches its 100th episode, Marnie Chesterton revisits a few of our most liked, talked-about, and inbox-filling programmes to find out how science is getting on with the answers. Marnie heads to a place where important queries have been tackled for hundreds of years - the University of Cambridge in the UK - to chase down some burning follow-ups on topics that have piqued your interest. She finds out what the future holds for the next generation of batteries as they're expected to power everything from smart phones to your car and even your house. Then she scrubs up to tackle your tough questions on the best ways to keep clean.
Finally, Marnie visits a memory laboratory at Cambridge University to discover whether the very process of asking questions might be one way to help us remember more.
(Photo: A woman from a group raises her hand to ask a question. Credit: Getty Images)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and maybe it's when I had a hand in. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Tammy Walker and I produce podcasts for the BBC. |
| 0:08.0 | My role is to give new and diverse creators a voice with the opportunity to build a career. |
| 0:12.0 | That's the thing I love about podcasts. |
| 0:14.4 | You start with just a good idea, but then you have the space to see where it goes. |
| 0:18.4 | And doing that at the BBC means we can really run with the best stories |
| 0:21.9 | while developing the most unique audio talent. |
| 0:24.3 | So if you like what you hear, why not check out the huge range of podcast we've got on BBC |
| 0:29.1 | Sounds. |
| 0:29.6 | Hi Crowds. Hi Crowds, Hi Crowds, Science. Hi Crowds, Hi Crowd Science, |
| 0:33.2 | Science. |
| 0:34.2 | Hi Crowd Science. |
| 0:34.6 | Hi BBC Crowd Science. |
| 0:37.3 | Hello! |
| 0:39.3 | That's a whole load of Hellos from crowd science listeners who've written into us with science questions. |
| 0:46.0 | I should join them with my own introduction. |
| 0:48.0 | Hello, I'm Marnie Chesterton, host of crowd science on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:53.0 | This is the show powered by your curiosity, |
| 0:56.0 | which luckily for us is never in short supply. |
| 1:00.0 | In fact, today is our 100th show birthday. |
| 1:03.8 | Wahay! |
| 1:05.1 | I mean, there's a distinct lack of cake or presents, |
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