The World Cup and hallucinogenic bananas
Unexpected Elements
BBC
4.4 • 567 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The World Cup has us looking at why women get more ACL injuries, how to avoid cracking under pressure, and why some animals play dead.
Also on the program we consider the pros and cons of Artificial Intelligence in Africa, whether the continent is turning to nuclear power, and if banana skins are hallucinogenic.
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| 0:29.5 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. Hi, I'm Hannah. I am the host of a new daily podcast, What in the |
| 0:37.1 | World from the BBC World Service, |
| 0:39.3 | where we try to help you make sense of the world around you, explaining the big events and some of the smaller events, |
| 0:46.4 | so that you might feel a little bit better when you pick up your phone and scroll through your news feed. |
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| 1:01.2 | I once met a woman who quit her job to climb a big mountain. |
| 1:05.9 | She now makes a living going into offices telling people about her adventures. |
| 1:10.6 | As I understand it, the corporate |
| 1:12.4 | thinking is that her tales of triumph and teamwork as she struggled to reach the top of this |
| 1:17.4 | mountain have lessons to teach workers about how they can operate better as a team or push themselves |
| 1:23.5 | to hit that elusive sales target. I see parallels now as the Women's World Cup dominates the media coverage. |
| 1:31.4 | What can we learn from these athletic heroes? |
| 1:34.8 | Can they change our lives, even if we won't ever represent our country at sport? |
| 1:39.5 | It's a question I put to my mountaineer. |
| 1:42.6 | Did she know if anyone used her tales of perseverance to become better workers? |
| 1:48.0 | She wasn't sure, she said, |
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