Password1234#Invisibility&Moonshot
Unexpected Elements
BBC
4.4 • 567 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
As Netflix cracks down on password sharing around the world - something it once encouraged - we wondered why people like to share passwords to other things, such as phones, email accounts and logins.
Passwords and encryption exist as ways of protecting us from hostile agents in most aspects of life. But timing is everything. Nature has been doing it for years of course. But climate change is upsetting some of the ecological match-ups of locks and keys, migration and feeding that have evolved over the millennia. We hear how the shifting patterns of weather and food availability is affecting cuckoos in Europe and India.
Another aspect of natural subterfuge is camouflage. Whilst physicists have been trying to make optical invisibility cloaks from ingenious new "metamaterials", Marc Holderied and team have been looking at how certain moths have used metamaterial properties in the structure of their wings to effectively hide from bats. They are acoustically invisible. Could similar materials be manufactured to make, for example, sound-proof wallpaper?
Also, we hear how India's Chandrayaan-3 moon mission - due to land on 23 August this year - is exciting millions of people.
Presenter: Marnie Chesterton Producer: Alex Mansfield, with Margaret Sessa-Hawkins, Ben Motley and Sophie Ormiston
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| 0:00.0 | In 2019, we began investigating the disappearance of Dr. Ruzha Ignatva. |
| 0:08.0 | I believe we are a very special network. |
| 0:10.0 | A scammer who stole billions from investors around the world. |
| 0:15.0 | She's on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list. |
| 0:18.0 | And now, we have some unmissable updates. She has money and when you have |
| 0:23.0 | money you have power. Join me, Jamie Bartlett, as the hunt for the missing crypto queen continues. |
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| 0:42.1 | She was trying to get me to send her money. |
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| 0:46.9 | Search for Love, Janessa, wherever you found this podcast. |
| 0:50.4 | You win their hearts, you win their wallet. |
| 0:56.1 | So this week, a 10-year-long relationship came to an end. |
| 1:00.5 | And now I have an X. |
| 1:02.8 | I'm talking about Twitter and the little blue and white bird that symbolized this successful social media platform. |
| 1:09.6 | Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of the site, has renamed it X, which seems almost perverse |
| 1:15.6 | in a world where brand recognition is all. |
| 1:18.5 | This social media site has achieved the rare mark gained by only the elites among tech companies |
| 1:24.2 | adding a word to tweet a verb no less to the language. |
| 1:29.1 | The thing is, no one knows how to handle the new name, |
| 1:32.3 | so probably the millions of users will all still call it Twitter. |
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