Three incredible tales of scientific progress
The Story
The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
As we head towards the end of 2021, we bring you some of the best episodes of the year. Today: Extraordinary scientific advances have taken place both because of Covid and despite it. We bring you three tales of human ingenuity you might have missed – and, for a change, nothing but good news.
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This episode was first published in April 2021.
Host: David Aaronovitch.
Guests:
- Tom Whipple, science editor, The Times.
- Lindley Johnson, planetary defence officer, Nasa.
- Dr Elena Adams, DART systems engineer, Johns Hopkins University.
Clips: ITV, CBC, BBC, TRT World, SpaceX.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Alex Dibble from The Times. There's so much happening in the world right now. |
| 0:04.0 | How do you stay on top of it? |
| 0:06.0 | On the World in 10 podcast, near my team, sit down and go through it all in just 10 minutes. |
| 0:11.0 | The Times correspondents join us with eyewitness accounts and interviews. |
| 0:15.0 | I was actually on the orthopedic ward, almost all the injuries are shell far. |
| 0:19.0 | A woman who was inside the police van. |
| 0:21.0 | They also give us their unique analysis of world events. |
| 0:25.0 | Give the world in 10 and listen. It is 10 minutes to stay on top of the world. |
| 0:30.0 | 2021 is ended for so many of us with uncertainty, with cancelled plans, |
| 0:41.0 | with feelings of deja vu and groundhog day and isn't it supposed to be better by now? |
| 0:48.0 | I'm resenting having to say the C word in a podcast, but you know, |
| 0:52.0 | COVID has really come back to bite hasn't it? |
| 0:55.0 | It's been tough, but fear not, we are here with you on stories of our times. |
| 0:59.0 | We are keeping you company, you're keeping us company. |
| 1:02.0 | And we're going to hear about some of the most remarkable moments of the year in this special episode. |
| 1:07.0 | We're looking at extraordinary scientific achievements. Have a listen to this. |
| 1:16.0 | You don't need me to tell you, it's been a terrible 12 months in every way. |
| 1:21.0 | Or has it? |
| 1:22.0 | Amazing astonishing things happen this year. |
| 1:25.0 | A lot of the excitement might welcome in things that we haven't even considered before. |
| 1:29.0 | Decades from now when I'm dead and you're old, what will this era be famous for? |
| 1:35.0 | Perhaps not the suffering and stress, but something else altogether. |
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