Violins - Social networks and cliques in great tits and snow monkeys - Exploring DNA and art
BBC Inside Science
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4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2017
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Classical music fans will know well the legendary violins made by the likes of Stradivarius and Guarneri in the 17th and 18th century. But new acoustical research has found that concert goers rated the music of new fiddles higher than that from old and revered Italian violins. Dr Claudia Fritz of the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris explains how she did this study and what she found. Virtuoso soloist Tasmin Little plays her 260 year old Italian instrument for presenter Adam Rutherford and offers her thoughts on the findings.
Adam also hears about personality and social cliques in great tits in Oxfordshire, and social networks and disease in Japanese snow monkeys. Adam chats with Leicester University geneticist Turi King and artists Ruth Singer and Gillian McFarland about their collaborative project to explore DNA through art.
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| 0:29.0 | Hello You this is the podcast of Inside Science from BBC Radio 4 first broadcast on the |
| 0:35.1 | 11th of May 2017 I'm Adam Rutherford and blime what a treat for you today |
| 0:40.4 | Tasman Little the fabulous violin soloist played exclusively for us in her front |
| 0:46.0 | room because in a minute we're talking about scientific studies that challenge the mythos |
| 0:50.4 | of the great stratovarius violins. I was a fairly serious fiddle player in my youth and basically |
| 0:56.2 | I had to have a small lie down after hearing her knock out the Brahms violin concerto. |
| 1:15.0 | violins, music, art and social networking. That's social networking in birds. |
| 1:17.0 | They form gangs based on their personalities. |
| 1:20.0 | Yes, birds can have different personalities. |
| 1:22.0 | We're also looking at social hierarchies in Japanese snow monkeys, |
| 1:26.0 | how their cliques might prevent them from getting sick. And we see what happens when you crash |
| 1:31.6 | social networks together, geneticists and artists. |
| 1:34.8 | spoiler alert, beautiful things is what happens. But first, classical music fans will know very |
| 1:41.1 | well of the legendary violins made by Stradivarius and Guinari, the 17th and 18th century |
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