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Nature Podcast

Nature Podcast: 22 December 2016

Nature Podcast

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🗓️ 21 December 2016

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

It’s our bumper end-of-year show, with a 2016 round-up, holiday reading picks, science carols, word games and more.

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Transcript

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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.

0:14.3

Coming up, holiday tunes reimagined for science.

0:18.1

Have yourself a merry little Christmas.

0:23.5

And a scientist's guide to post-truth.

0:26.3

It makes it very easy for people to just go ahead and believe whatever they care to believe.

0:30.4

Plus, how tongue-tied would our willing players get when they have to describe science with

0:34.5

literally none of the jargon?

0:36.4

This is the Nature podcast for December the 22nd, 2016.

0:40.2

I'm Kerry Smith.

0:41.5

And I'm Noah Baker.

0:46.9

It's the final episode of 2016 and have we got a show for you?

0:51.8

It's as full of surprises as the year itself has been,

0:54.7

but perhaps a bit easier to swallow.

0:57.0

We've got three festive songs for you

0:59.3

performed by members of the Springer Nature Choir

1:01.6

and in one case by the very talented family of one of our producers.

1:05.4

Plus we have a family game,

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