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Nature Podcast

Nature Podcast: 14 July 2016

Nature Podcast

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Science, Technology, News

4.5893 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week, a special issue on conflict. The psychological toll of war, how to count the dead, and predicting conflict in the 21st century.

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0:00.0

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0:23.2

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0:35.1

This week, in a special episode of the podcast, we mark the 100th anniversary of the First World War's deadliest battle, the Battle of the Somme.

0:46.5

This episode is all about conflict.

0:49.9

We'll be looking at the mental toll of war, then and now.

1:04.0

Thank you. We'll be looking at the mental toll of war then and now. And the emotional and practical difficulty of counting the dead during conflict.

1:09.0

It's a false distinction to say, well, there's a scientific process and an emotional process.

1:12.9

No, no, no. They should go together.

1:14.9

Plus how best to predict conflicts and their outcomes.

1:18.2

Later on in the show, we'll have all your favourite news and highlights as usual.

1:22.5

But first, into the breach.

1:25.1

I'm Adam Levy.

1:26.4

And I'm Kerry Smith.

1:28.5

The Battle of the Somme began in northern France on the 1st of July 1916.

1:34.3

It's remembered as one of the deadliest battles in British military history.

1:38.3

There are plenty of similarities with conflicts today, but also a lot of differences.

1:43.2

In this first story, Adam has been looking at one gruesome task that began in the First World War

1:48.0

and continues today.

1:54.0

In a darkened hall in the basement of the Imperial War Museum in London, there's a map of northern France.

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