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BBC Inside Science

Menopause; IPCC; Fracking feedback; Particle accelerator; Zombie chemicals

BBC Inside Science

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Science

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Dr Adam Rutherford and guests explore the scientific mysteries of the menopause after scientists in the US and Japan successfully induced pregnancy in post-menopausal women.

Also in the programme, we hear from decision scientist Baruch Fischhoff on the difficulties of trying to communicate uncertainty in science in the wake of the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Following on from last week's Fracking report, one listener, Professor Kevin Anderson of the University of Manchester, raises his concerns about the consequences of exploiting shale gas for UK carbon emissions.

This week's show us your instrument comes from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, where Dan Faircloth tends to the ISIS particle accelerator.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless

0:06.8

searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the

0:11.8

telly we share what we've been watching

0:14.0

Cladie Aide.

0:16.0

Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.

0:19.0

Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.

0:21.0

And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less

0:24.9

searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds hello you I'm

0:30.8

Adam Rutherford and this is the Inside Science Podcast, terms and conditions and a range of recipes are available at BBC.k.

0:38.0

UK slash radio for, one of those things is not true.

0:41.0

This week saw the release of the latest incarnation of the

0:44.4

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC, and the scientists are as confident

0:49.9

as ever of the certainty of man-made climate change.

0:53.7

But the headlines and the public mood is not so clear.

0:56.5

So how do we deal with uncertainty in science?

0:59.6

We also have vampire hormones by day they rest, but they mostly come at night.

1:05.0

Mostly.

1:06.0

There's your token science fiction reference for this week's show, but there's also a secret

1:09.8

Tim Minchen lyric later on, see if you can spot it. Last week's show us your

1:13.8

instrument was a stick this week it's a particle collider. Science is nothing if not

1:18.5

varied. And a word to the wise, one Nobel Prize winner's advice to this year's laureates, who will be

1:24.0

revealed from Monday.

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