Uncharted: The gossip mill

Discovery

BBC

Science, Technology

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Hannah Fry explores two more tales of data and discovery.

Gossip and rumour are plaguing a tile manufacturing company. The chatter is pulling morale to new lows, and amid it all, a question hangs in the air: who is spreading it? Can the science of networks find out?

And, what is the secret to ageing well? One man believes he may have found the beginnings of an answer, and it is hiding in a convent.

Produced by: Ilan Goodman and Lauren Armstrong Carter

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1:00.4	It's 2008 and we're in a factory in Hungary. A huge clattering machine takes in finely ground
1:09.0	clay and sand and sends out patches of freshly pressed floor tiles ready to be blasted in the kiln.
1:16.0	A few meters away stands a smartly dressed man, neat beard, thick glasses and a clipboard.
1:23.2	Beside him, the production supervisor is answering his questions,
1:27.6	with a quizzical expression on his face.
1:31.2	The tile company is in trouble, and the man with the clipboard is here to help but the questions he's asking seem
1:38.0	Trivial silly even who here are you friends? Who do you chat to about work? What, the
1:46.8	supervisor wonders, does any of this have to do with tiles?
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