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Nature Podcast

Nature Podcast: 29 September 2016

Nature Podcast

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News, Science, Technology

4.5893 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This week, the chemistry of life’s origins, two million years of temperatures, and studying the heaviest elements.

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0:00.0

This year, we've had a record 150,000 children homeless in England.

0:06.1

We'll be waking up homeless on Christmas morning, in cramped rooms, with nowhere to play,

0:11.4

and sometimes even having to share bathrooms with strangers.

0:16.1

This is not a home.

0:18.7

This is the heartbreaking reality, but it doesn't have to be this way.

0:23.1

Your donation to shelter could help a family find a safe place to call home.

0:27.1

Donate today at shelter.org.uk.

0:30.2

Here's the truth about AI.

0:32.3

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0:35.9

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0:39.7

removing friction and frustration for your employees, supercharging productivity for your developers,

0:45.9

providing intelligent tools for your service agents to make customers happier,

0:49.9

all built into a single platform you can use right now. That's why the world works with ServiceNow.

0:56.7

Visit ServiceNow.com slash UK slash AI for people.

1:05.4

This week, we ask a really hard question.

1:08.8

How did life begin?

1:10.1

An experienced professor can usually babble his way to an explanation for almost anything.

1:16.6

And I have to say that in this area, I can't.

1:19.6

And piecing together two million years of global temperature data.

1:23.6

We have so much information that we've gathered from pole to pole, from desert to sea, really

1:28.9

putting it together is the challenge. Plus, studying one of the heaviest elements in a split

1:35.0

second. This is the nature podcast for September the 29th, 2016. I'm Adam Levy. And I'm Noah Baker.

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