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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Gardens, Plants and Climate Change

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6957 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week, with our climate changing, will the traditional "English country garden" become a thing of the past? Will pests and diseases surge? And how will flowers and food crops, and the pollinators that make them productive, be affected? Plus, news of how dust and dandruff can spread flu and other viruses. The chemical fingerprint that COVID-19 leaves on the body; and self-driving cars look set to take to the road... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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I have you loud and clear.

0:03.0

Hello.

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Hello.

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Welcome.

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Science.

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and that is the same physics, medicine, nature, or space, time time, brain, life, the universe.

0:15.0

Hello, this is the naked scientist, the show that keeps you in touch with the

0:19.2

latest science, technology, and medicine.

0:21.9

I'm Chris Smith.

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And I'm Eva Higginbotham.

0:25.0

This week, will the traditional English country garden

0:28.0

become a victim of climate change?

0:30.0

Will pests and diseases surge?

0:32.0

And how will flowers and food crops and the pollinators

0:34.8

that make them productive be affected. Plus news of how dust and dandruff can

0:39.6

spread flu and other viruses, the chemical fingerprint that COVID-19 leaves on your body and

0:45.6

self-driving cars are looking set to take to the road.

0:49.6

But when?

0:50.6

The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.coDuk. Across the world COVID-19 is making a comeback. Boris Johnson's dubbed it a

1:08.4

second wave and the WHO have suggested that people dropping their guard

1:12.3

together with a relaxation of public health measures

1:14.6

in many countries is translating into a surge in cases.

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