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The Naked Scientists Podcast

UK Covid inquiry, AI, and cat contraception

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6957 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

As the UK's Covid inquiry kicks off, will it help to transform how we tackle future pandemics? How an AI is writing its own computer code, speeding up the Internet; and using gene therapy for cat contraception. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0

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0:02.0

Get your morning mojo going with woolen-like Greek style.

0:08.0

Now with a new recipe, with Vitamin B-6 and Vitamin D. Let's have it!

0:16.0

Mull a light, running, actually genius.

0:25.0

Get this.

0:27.0

Welcome.

0:28.0

This is the show where we bring science.

0:30.0

What that essentially means is discovery is,

0:32.0

advances, research, technology, unbelievable.

0:35.0

Without further ado, this is the Naked Scientists.

0:39.0

Hello, welcome to the Naked Scientists.

0:41.0

This is the show that brings you the latest breakthroughs in science, technology, and medicine. I'm Chris Smith.

0:46.3

This week, as the UK's COVID inquiry kicks off, will it help to transform how we tackle future pandemics. That's what we're going to be asking.

0:54.4

Also ahead how an AI is writing its own computer code and speeding up the internet

0:59.6

plus using gene therapy for cat contraception.

1:04.0

One of the most important public inquiries in British history is now getting underway

1:16.5

in a bit to understand and determine what ministers got right and what they got wrong

1:20.3

before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

1:24.7

Emminoris is the Deputy Director at the Institute for Government, which is an independent

1:29.5

think tank that had been calling for a COVID-19 inquiry and I began by asking her to explain what the

1:35.3

inquiry is attempting to achieve.

1:38.0

So the COVID inquiry is a public inquiry, a kind of investigation that is looking at what happened during the pandemic in a whole range of ways.

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