Our podcast highlights of 2020
Nature Podcast
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4.5 • 893 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The Nature Podcast team select some of their favourite stories from the past 12 months.
In this episode:
00:32 Following the Viking footprint across Europe
In September, we heard about the researchers mapping ancient genomes to better understand who the Vikings were, and where they went.
Nature Podcast: 16 September 2020
Research Article: Margaryan et al.
08:09 Mars hopes
In July, the UAE launched its first mission to Mars. We spoke to the mission leads to learn about the aims of the project, and how they developed the mission in under six years.
Nature Podcast: 08 July 2020
News Feature: How a small Arab nation built a Mars mission from scratch in six years
News Feature: Countdown to Mars: three daring missions take aim at the red planet
17:42 Disaster in San Quentin
In July, we reported on a massive COVID-19 outbreak in San Quentin. In Coronapod, we dug into how they got there. Also in the episode, we investigated whether lockdowns could have any lasting impact on young minds.
Coronapod: 10 July 2020
25:23 Communicating complex data
In April, we found out about some of the methods that communications experts and behavioural scientists recommend to keep the public informed about risks and evidence – something that remains key for governments and other organisations during the pandemic.
Coronapod: 17 April 2020
37:19 ‘Stick to the science’: when science gets political
In November, we published our miniseries “Stick to the science” which aimed to find out why a journal of science needs to cover politics. In the series we explored the history, philosophy and reality of science’s complicated relationship with politics.
‘Stick to the science’: when science gets political
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. My name is Jamie Lang and I'm the host of Great Company podcast and today we are |
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| 0:44.4 | This year, we've had a record 150,000 children homeless in England. We'll be waking up |
| 0:50.9 | homeless on Christmas morning, in cramped rooms, with nowhere to play, |
| 0:55.3 | and sometimes even having to share bathrooms with strangers. |
| 1:00.0 | This is not a home. |
| 1:02.4 | This is the heartbreaking reality, but it doesn't have to be this way. |
| 1:07.0 | Your donation to shelter could help a family find a safe place to call home. |
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| 1:32.8 | Hi listeners, Benjamin here. We're coming to the end of 2020 and, well, what a year it's been. |
| 1:38.8 | We made a lot of podcasts from our kitchens, living rooms, basements in South London, |
| 1:44.6 | and in this special clip show, the team will be picking out a few of their favourites and telling us why they enjoyed making them. First up, it's Dan Fox. The piece I've chosen is about Vikings. And I've |
| 1:53.0 | picked it because not only is it a fascinating study into the genetic diversity of the people |
| 1:58.3 | coming out of and going into Scandinavia in the Viking era, |
| 2:02.1 | but also because my 10-year-old self would think it was so cool that I was making podcasts |
| 2:07.3 | about Vikings, after I explained what a podcast was to a child in 1995. |
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