Nature Podcast: 17 December 2015
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🗓️ 17 December 2015
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this. Static cars, idling engines, angry horns. |
| 0:08.6 | Now, picture you, zooming past it all. |
| 0:13.8 | Light and breezy. |
| 0:16.2 | Ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic. |
| 0:20.8 | Book your train journey via avantiwestcoastcoast.com. |
| 0:25.1 | AvantiWestcoast. |
| 0:27.1 | Feel good travel. |
| 0:31.2 | Coming up, nations make a landmark climate deal in Paris. |
| 0:39.6 | And what next? |
| 0:41.0 | I'm cautiously optimistic that the world will now build on this agreement here in Paris. |
| 0:47.2 | And we try our hand at sorting out the science fact from the science fiction. |
| 0:51.0 | There is a chemical called nitrogen tri-iodide that is so volatile that it will explode if a mosquito |
| 0:58.5 | lands on it. |
| 0:59.6 | Plus, the board game that gives you the power to evolve your own animals, but who will |
| 1:04.1 | survive? |
| 1:05.0 | So I think the lesson for carnivores is body-sized trumps population. |
| 1:08.3 | Oh, yes, exactly. |
| 1:09.8 | I'm just happy that you all learn something with my experience. |
| 1:12.4 | It's very, very educational. |
| 1:14.1 | All that and more festive fun coming up. |
| 1:16.3 | This is the Nature podcast for December the 17th, 2015. |
| 1:19.9 | I'm Kerry Smith. |
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