Nature Podcast: 2 March 2017
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🗓️ 1 March 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Yes! I just can't believe it. |
| 0:02.4 | This Christmas, you could be a millionaire. |
| 0:05.2 | Get your lotto ticket for tonight's draw. |
| 0:07.0 | The National Lottery. |
| 0:07.9 | Rules and procedures apply. |
| 0:08.8 | Players must be 18 or over. |
| 0:12.3 | We ticketed passengers are permitted beyond the security checkbook. |
| 0:16.7 | Thank you for your new operation. |
| 0:19.3 | Millions of people cross international borders every day. |
| 0:23.4 | This process is often easy, even mundane, but for some, it can be a matter of life and death. |
| 0:30.4 | In this week's special show, we bring you three pieces on migration and research. |
| 0:35.1 | We meet Kasim al-Said Mahmoud, a Syrian scientist who risked his life leaving his country. |
| 0:40.8 | We also ask whether the world's current systems are ready to deal with migration caused by climate change. |
| 0:46.8 | Plus we take a look at smart borders and the potential dangers of letting a computer decide who's allowed into a country. |
| 0:53.8 | This is a nature podcast for March the 2nd, 2017. |
| 0:57.2 | I'm Noah Baker. |
| 0:58.3 | And I'm Adam Levy. |
| 1:00.4 | Out of 4.8 million Syrian refugees currently estimated to be living outside their home country, |
| 1:06.3 | as many as 2,000 are academics. |
| 1:09.3 | One of them is Kasemar Sa'aad Mahmoud. Kassam and his family fled Syria in 2012 |
| 1:15.1 | and went to Turkey. From there, he applied for an academic position in Europe through a |
| 1:19.7 | program called Scholars at Risk, which helps academics who are threatened or attacked. A year and a |
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