Science Rocks!

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2013

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Science Rocks! This week, Brian Cox and Robin Ince are travelling back in time, to discuss when and how geology became a science, what the dinosaurs ever did for us and why cryptids, creatures of popular mythology, hold such fascination for those on the fringes of science. Joining the panel are paleobiologist Dave Martill, geologist and BBC broadcaster Hermione Cockburn, the comedian Ross Noble and legendary actor, writer and performer, Eric Idle. Producer: Rami Tzabar.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Robin Ents.
0:01.2	And I'm Brian Cox.
0:02.2	And welcome to the podcast version of the Infinite Monkey Cage,
0:05.3	which contains extra material that wasn't considered good enough for the radio.
0:09.1	Enjoy it.
0:09.9	On my left, a man who's seen things you people wouldn't believe,
0:12.3	a tack ships on far off the shoulder of Orion's sea beams glittering in the dark
0:15.8	near the Tanner Houser Gate.
0:16.9	He's, of course, Professor Brian Cox.
0:18.7	On my right, a man who's experienced delays between steven-age and Grantham
0:21.8	due to points failure at Peter Bradshaw's.
0:23.8	Robin Ents.
0:24.8	Today, we're going to talk about history of life on Earth and history of the Earth itself.
0:27.9	After eight series of endless physics particles,
0:30.4	muons, gluons, quarks, and probability, finally, we get to the science.
0:34.9	You wrote this, didn't you?
0:35.7	Yeah, I did.
0:36.2	Yeah, it's real science.
0:37.2	This is dinosaurs.
0:38.2	And you may say, oh, but they didn't have a space programme.
0:40.6	Isn't that just what you would say?
0:42.8	Anyway, dinosaurs are better than physics.
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