Our Hilarious Universe

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4.4 • 816 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Revenge of the nerds - how comedians are helping explain the world of science and tech. Reporter Elizabeth Hotson finds out how people are forging careers from our desire to know how the world works. We get a practical demonstration from Natasha Simons a science performer and writer. Ron Berk, Emeritus Professor at the Johns Hopkins University in Maryland explains why he creates musicals about biostatistics and measurement. Helen Arney, co-founder of the Festival of the Spoken Nerd gives us a taste of science stand-up comedy and Jorge Cham, creator of PhD comics and co-host of the podcast ‘Daniel and Jorge explain the universe’, puts the fun into string theory.

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0:00.0	A brutal murder.
0:01.5	Carter and artists were found guilty of gunning down three people triple murder in a bar.
0:06.2	A celebrity boxer.
0:07.7	He liked a fight, but he wasn't a violent person.
0:10.3	A controversial verdict.
0:12.0	We were convicted, said Carter, because we are black.
0:14.6	A box of cassette tapes that have never been heard before.
0:18.4	I knew that these people knew that I knew that they knew that I didn't commit this crime.
0:23.7	And maybe the answer to a case that's gone unsolved for over 50 years.
0:29.9	The guy who did it, actually, I knew him.
0:32.0	What do you mean the guy who did it? Who's the guy who did it?
0:34.4	There was a guy in Patterson that confessed to doing it.
0:37.4	Really? On his deathbed. Rightson that confessed to doing it. Really?
0:37.9	Honour's death bit.
0:38.8	Right.
0:39.1	Do you don't remember his name?
0:40.2	Yeah, I do, but I don't think I'm going to do that right now.
0:42.5	I'm Steve Crosman, and I've spent the last year tracking down everyone involved in the story of Ruben Hurricane Carter.
0:50.4	The result is the Hurricane Tapes, a brand new podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:56.1	The first two episodes will be released on January 14th.
1:00.5	I program my own computer.
1:14.9	Be myself into the future.
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