Meetings with intelligent worms

Unexpected Elements

BBC

Science

4.4 • 567 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week on the show that brings you the science behind the news, inspired by COP28, we’re talking about meetings. Honestly, it’s way more interesting than it sounds.

Come to hear about blackworm blobs – a wormy meeting that only happens in stressful situations - and how scientists are taking inspiration from it to design robots. Stay for the stories from nature where species are missing crucial pollination meetings thanks to that global stressful situation that is climate change. And what’s better for the planet, a big meeting that everyone flies to or a telephone conference with no video?

In ‘Ask the Unexpected’ we answer a listener’s question about antibiotics - if there are good bacteria in the body, how do they know which ones to attack?

Also, OMG it’s the OMG particle – we hear about the tiny but powerful particles that pound the planet from time to time.

All that plus your emails about toilets and the rules of Cricket.

Presented by Marnie Chesterton, with Chhavi Sachdev and Tristan Ahtone.

Produced by Ben Motley, with Alex Mansfield and Dan Welsh.

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0:00.0	Can I just say?
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0:16.7	And then enjoy even more podcasts full of analysis and reaction to the big stories.
0:21.6	The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession.
0:25.2	And she's had to live with that.
0:26.8	So if you love sport, a passion, it's almost like a religion.
0:29.7	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.7	Sort of expecting that every week now.
0:36.2	The Global Story, with smart takes and fresh perspectives on one big news story every Monday to Friday from the BBC World Service.
0:46.1	Search for The Global Story, wherever you get your BBC podcasts, to find out more.
0:57.4	Back in the day, I wanted to make a radio program about the office environment.
1:02.5	I was really interested in what researchers had to say about the best way to design an office
1:07.7	that would make people feel part of a team, but also give them the space to concentrate on their work.
1:13.9	Because a common feeling is that, although we need to communicate, it feels like it could work better,
1:20.0	that we all seem to waste a lot of time with inefficient emails and meetings.
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