Does Size Matter?
The Infinite Monkey Cage
BBC
4.7 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Robin Ince and Brian Cox are joined on stage by comedian Andy Hamilton to discuss whether size matters? Material scientist Mark Miodownik and bioengineer Eleanor Stride also join the panel to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of being really huge, or extremely small, and why if you wanted to be a truly effective super hero, then being really really tiny is probably the greatest superpower you could have.
Producer: Alexandra Feachem.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a download from the BBC. |
| 0:02.1 | To find out more, visit bbc.co.uk-radio4 |
| 0:31.0 | That is entirely true, by the way. |
| 0:33.0 | This man has no idea what anything is, unless it's up in the sky. |
| 0:37.0 | He's brilliant. If it's a fridge in a room... |
| 0:39.0 | What's that white thing? Is that the fridge? Is that milk? |
| 0:42.0 | I don't know. I've got a man to do that for me. |
| 0:45.0 | It's... |
| 0:48.0 | It's Professor Brian Cox. |
| 0:50.0 | Monkey Cage is nothing you've not educational. |
| 0:53.0 | I thought I'd tell you how Robin came to that number 7 times 10th of 2017. |
| 0:57.0 | The number of molecules present in one molecule of a substance of water, |
| 1:01.0 | in this case, approximately equal to 6 times 10th of the 23. |
| 1:04.0 | So one mole of water is 18 grams, the average weighs around 80 kilograms. |
| 1:08.0 | Under the assumption that people are mainly watered with Robin is 80 divided by 0.080s. |
| 1:13.0 | 4,400 times 6 times 10th of the 23, which is about 2.6 times 10th of the 27 molecules. |
| 1:18.0 | Very important to show you're working. |
| 1:20.0 | Anyway, all that water is currently grouchyly taking the form of Robin's. |
| 1:25.0 | I got actually a nice thing before we get started as you used the panel, |
| 1:29.0 | which was someone sent me a picture of your book. |
| 1:31.0 | It was the ones of the Social System book in a charity shop in Stretem, |
| 1:35.0 | in which you've been placed in the astrology section. |
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