Timing is everything
Unexpected Elements
BBC
4.4 • 567 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
As the new year arrives for much of the world, Marnie and pals look at a few time-related oddities. From the abolition of the leap second, to how some people feel they can actually see time stretching before them, to a festival of lunar-loving worms.
On the anniversary of the invention of the word “robot”, we discuss EU AI legislation and its parallels with science fiction of a century ago, regal handedness, Arctic golf courses and the time-capsule of all humanity, stuck to the side of the Voyager Probes.
Presented by Marnie Chesterton with Meral Jamal, Andrada Fiscutean, plus Prof Anje Schutze of Texas A&M University Produced by Tom Bonnett, with Alex Mansfield and Dan Welsh
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| 0:00.0 | In 2019, we began investigating the disappearance of Dr. Ruzha Ignatva. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 0:48.5 | Are you ready for some magic? |
| 0:52.9 | So this week, I flitted with the idea of a New Year's resolution. |
| 0:57.3 | You know, New Year, New Me. |
| 0:59.2 | I should eat less, move more, read that massive pile of books I keep buying, |
| 1:03.6 | but I'm too tired to open come the end of the day. |
| 1:06.2 | I should really learn French and Arabic and the names of trees and a musical instrument. |
| 1:11.9 | I should plant some vegetables, fix all the holes in my clothes, see my loved ones more often. I should magic more |
| 1:17.2 | hours from the day and spend them on becoming a better person. But all the shoulds turn even |
| 1:24.3 | something I want to do into a chore, a list of chores even, which then become overwhelming |
| 1:29.6 | and then I do none of them. This year I've decided to bypass such an obvious opportunity |
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