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Unexpected Elements

Super corals and science diplomacy

Unexpected Elements

BBC

Science

4.4567 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Could geopolitical tensions around the Red Sea affect research into the region’s heat-resistant super corals? Also on the program, what an ocean that used to lie under the Himalayas can tell us about evolution, the fruit chat continues with the latest chapter in the bananadine saga, and how looking to the past could help create the shipping of the future.

Transcript

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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.

0:21.7

She has money and when you have money, you have power.

0:24.6

Join me, Jamie Bartlett, as the hunt for the missing crypto queen continues.

0:29.5

Listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:32.2

I was one of many people that were victims who was used by somebody who was psychopathic.

0:38.4

Let's tell this story.

0:40.3

World of Secrets, Season 2, The Disciples. Listen now, wherever you get your BBC podcasts.

0:52.4

Last week, I went to Finland, to a place called Sala, about 15 kilometres from the Finnish-Russian border.

1:00.1

It markets itself as the middle of nowhere and temperatures were an icy minus 34 degrees Celsius.

1:07.2

Despite the cold, my gang piled into the car and drove to the border.

1:12.1

Partly nosiness and partly because we were hunting for the famously beautiful spectacle of the northern lights

1:18.5

and we could see this beautifully orange hue in the sky in that direction.

1:23.7

Bermused Finnish border guards arrived as we were taking selfies

1:26.9

and asked who we were and what on earth we were doing.

1:30.2

I pointed at the sky.

1:31.9

Is that the Aurora Borealis, I gulped?

1:34.8

The guard looked at me pityingly.

1:36.8

No, he said.

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