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Hello, Bugleers, and welcome to Bugle No. 40 for the week beginning August 11th, 2008.

The first ever Olympic Bugle, with me and his ultimate in the beautiful city of Edinburgh

in Scotland, and in New York City, John Oliver. Hello, Andy, and hello, Bugleers.

I'm here in New York in the same studio as Randy Newman, did an interview on Monday.

He did an interview here, and the man's my hero, Andy, so I feel closer to him by sitting

in this chair. Where that great man socially awkward man sat. I feel like I'm pretty socially

awkward as well, I like to think. Everyone else likes to think that too, John.

If you put the tubers in a room, they'll go really badly. How's the week made in Edinburgh, Andy?

It's riding totally sold out, of course, John. Oh, it's only not totally sold out, some of the tickets.

Still sell out. That's right. It's been good. Edinburgh is still standing just by everything.

This, of course, is, as I said, the first ever Olympic Bugle, as we record, the Olympic ceremony has

literally just begun, and that means that this Bugle will, and according to the Olympic tradition,

be faster, higher, and stronger than ever. It will also skirt around major political issues,

be used principles of commercial vehicle for large corporate sponsors, and mostly concern

subjects. People don't take much notice of for the following 206 weeks.

As always, some sections of the Bugle will go straight in the bin. This week, a free periodic

table, and the featured element this week in issue 40 of the Bugle is Zirconium, with its

atomic number of 40. Zirconium named after Aristotle's pet dog, Zirco, who discovered the element,

well chasing ideas on a walkies with his philosophy-loving owner. His principally used in nuclear

actors, which categorises it as one of the naughty metals. With a covalent radius of 148 pm,

this hexagonally close-packed silvery-white little strumpet is also a key figure in the BLU-97B

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