Science and cyber security, Dinosaur babies, Winston Churchill and level crossings
BBC Inside Science
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4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Testing cyber security with science. The UK now has a new National Cyber Security Centre. However there is very little scientific evidence against which to test the detection of cyber attacks and effectiveness of measures to prevent them. We ask what is needed to turn cyber security into a more scientific discipline.
Winston Churchill and Aliens. Throughout his life Churchill maintained a strong interest in scientific developments and wrote widely on subjects from quantum mechanics to nuclear energy. Newly discovered papers show he also had an interest in the potential for life on other planets.
Dinosaurs and egg laying. A new fossil find revealing a dinosaur with an unborn baby suggests live births may have occurred many years earlier than previously thought.
Turn off at level crossings. New research suggests personal messages about the impact of engine fumes on health may be the most effective way of persuading drivers to switch off their engines at level crossings.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings science lovers this is the BBC Inside Science podcast on Thursday the 16th of |
| 0:05.5 | February 2017 what you're about to hear is a radio program that went out on radio |
| 0:09.7 | for and this is the podcast introduction with me garrath Mitchell if you want to stay in touch with me because this is the podcast introduction with me, Gareth Mitchell. |
| 0:13.0 | If you want to stay in touch with me, because this is the last of two weeks that I've had on the show, |
| 0:16.6 | then I'm at Gareth M on Twitter, and whilst I'm giving you gratuitous plugs, |
| 0:20.7 | I may direct you towards a program that I present over on the BBC World Service, which is Click, the technology program. |
| 0:27.0 | And in fact, this week, it's quite a juicy edition because we have a discussion all about the problems of being online trolling and cyber attacks and |
| 0:37.0 | in fact we have Professor Mary Beard who talks about her own experiences of being |
| 0:41.2 | trolled and that enters into a whole discussion about whether we should |
| 0:45.0 | all be or could all be anonymous online. |
| 0:47.6 | Enough of that though, let's talk about science and jump straight in because do you ever |
| 0:51.0 | get the feeling that you're being watched? |
| 0:53.6 | G.C.H.Q has launched a new cyber security center this week seeking to make the |
| 0:58.8 | web a safer place for us all. |
| 1:01.0 | And offline drivers feel as if they're being watched at a level crossing so |
| 1:05.1 | does that make them switch off their engine like they're meant to? Dinosaurs were |
| 1:09.2 | never meant to give birth to Live Young but there's unexpected news this week about these prehistoric |
| 1:15.4 | egg layers and in more recent history we hear about Winston Churchill and some of his |
| 1:19.9 | newly uncovered science writings. |
| 1:22.3 | Now the UK's new National Cyber Security Center opened on Tuesday to help protect the |
| 1:28.8 | country from cyber attacks and to manage major incidents when things do go wrong. |
| 1:34.0 | National security relies on this going well, |
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