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BBC Inside Science

Oceans, ice and climate change; Neolithic baby bottles; Caroline Criado-Perez wins RS Book Prize

BBC Inside Science

BBC

Technology, Science

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's special report on the oceans and cryosphere makes pretty grim reading on the state of our seas and icy places. Ocean temperatures are rising, permafrost and sea ice are melting, sea levels are rising and marine life is either moving or suffering the effects of temperature changes and acidification. Dr Phil Williamson, research fellow at the University of East Anglia, worked on the report and he explains to Adam Rutherford how the watery and icy parts of the planet connect to the atmosphere and climate. It's a good job the small, round, spouted clay vessels found in 3000 year old baby graves in Bavaria weren't washed up very well. Crusts of food deposits have shown that these early baby bottles were used to give infants milk from ruminants such as cows, goats and sheep. This discovery, and previous discoveries of even earlier spouted vessels in Europe, indicate that settling down from hunter-gathering to agriculture in prehistoric Iron and Bronze-Age people impacted all ages. Dr Julie Dunne, organic geochemist at the University of Bristol, thinks that this more settled lifestyle with domesticated animals and cereals to supplement a baby's diet, led to earlier weaning and maybe more babies. Caroline Criado Perez’s ground-breaking gender bias exposé wins the 2019 Royal Society Science Book Prize. 'Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men' by writer, broadcaster and feminist campaigner Caroline Criado Perez, becomes the 32nd winner of the prestigious Royal Society Insight Investment Science Books Prize. Caroline explains to Adam how a range of case studies, stories and new research highlights ways in which women are ‘forgotten’ on a daily basis. From government policy and medical research to technology, media and workplaces, she exposes the lack of gender-specific data that has unintentionally created a world biased against women Producer - Fiona Roberts

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Hello You, this is the podcast of Inside Science from BBC Radio 4 first broadcast on the 26th of September 2019

0:48.0

I'm Adam Rutherford. Everyone who has been a parent will know the significance of weaning and introducing bottle feeding to a baby's diet,

0:55.6

well this transition was also fundamentally important in the evolution of our species.

1:00.5

We look at Neolithic baby bottles once filled with cow's milk and the story of how our

1:05.8

knowledge of drugs road safety health medicine air conditioning snow plowing and

1:11.5

pretty much everything is skewed, often dangerously, away from women.

1:15.8

Caroline Criado Perez wins the Royal Society book prize with her Magnum Opus Invisible Women.

1:21.4

But first, Greta Tumburg has been using her voice and her platform to alert

1:25.7

politicians and the public to the climate crisis in the last few days and one of the

1:30.7

things she told the US Congress last week was listen to scientists. And one was,

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was, listen to scientists.

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So here we are.

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC,

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