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Unexpected Elements

Fashion to dye for

Unexpected Elements

BBC

Science

4.4567 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Lagos Fashion Week makes some unexpected connections to vegan wool, 1920s car marketing, and Right to Repair legislation. If we consider our obsession with the clothes we wear to be some result of sexual selection, do any other animals evolve their self-expression with such frequency?

Dr Ellen Garland of St Andrew’s University tells how male humpback whales change their song with surprisingly infectious rapidity, and talks us through some recent hits. Also, some catalytic promise for wastewater management, and how choosing a language in which to think changes your decision making.

Plus, this week’s messages from you, and can poetry help science?

Presenter: Caroline Steel, with Chhavi Sachdev and Godfred Boafo Producer: Alex Mansfield, with Tom Bonnet and Margaret Sessa-Hawkins

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0:09.2

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0:52.7

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1:00.5

I've been wearing the same pair of white trainers nearly every day for the last couple of years.

1:05.5

And whenever I step into a puddle, which now that it's autumn in the UK, is most days,

1:10.3

water creeps in through the

1:11.5

cracked soul. I decided to replace them with something a bit different, and after hours of trawling

1:16.9

the internet, I opted for a cream pair with a chunky soul. And last week, I wore them into the office

1:22.5

for the first time, excited to show off my new shoes. I said hi to producer Margaret. She wished me a good morning,

1:29.2

but no comment on my latest purchase. Next, producer Alex arrived in the office, but again,

1:34.6

nothing. Then Arbos Martin came over to my desk and he looked down at my feet, finally.

1:41.0

But no, he just asked me if I'd finished writing the unexpected element script yet.

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