Scroll Over Beethoven: Machines Making Music

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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It's Beethoven's 250th birthday! What today's tech tells us about his music? And have computers have become powerful enough to take the same creative steps as he once did? Plus, in the news: the practical challenges behind the largest mass vaccination campaign in history; cutting carbon from crisps; and why have pandas been rolling in poo? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.3	Hello.
0:04.3	Hello.
0:05.3	Welcome.
0:06.3	Science.
0:09.3	And that is the same physics, medicine, nature, or space, big time, brain, life, the universe.
0:16.3	Hello, welcome to the naked scientist, the show where we bring you the latest breakthroughs
0:20.6	in science, technology and medicine, me Phil Sansom and with me
0:24.4	Chris Smith coming up the practical challenges behind the largest mass
0:28.0	vaccination campaign in history also cutting carbon emissions from Crisps and why have pandas been rolling in poo.
0:36.0	Plus it's Beethoven's 250th birthday.
0:39.0	We're asking what today's tech tells us about the iconic composer's music and whether computers
0:45.0	have become powerful enough to take the same creative steps.
0:49.3	The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co. UK.
0:54.0	This week there was much to celebrate.
0:57.0	This week there was much to celebrate.
1:04.0	Staff clapped as 90 year old Margaret Keenan left hospital having become the first person in the world outside a clinical trial to receive
1:14.2	Pfizer's COVID vaccine.
1:16.1	Nurse May Parsons had the job of administering it.
1:19.3	I think it's a tremendous historical event and I'm so proud to be able to contribute to that positive step towards stopping this pandemic.
1:27.5	And an emotional Matt Hancock UK Health Secretary was moved to tears by the week's developments.
1:34.0	It's been, you know, it's been such a tough year for so many people and, you know, there's still a few months ago,
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