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Curious Cases

BBC

Science

4.84.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Rutherford & Fry reveal which of your questions they’ve chosen for Series 15. Plus they select more of their favourite strange-but-true science papers, including how to use mathematics to challenge a parking fine and training tortoises to yawn.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:04.6

MUSIC

0:10.6

I'm Dr Adam Rutherford.

0:12.0

And I'm Dr Hannah Fry.

0:13.4

And you are going to send us your everyday mysteries.

0:16.3

And we are going to investigate them.

0:18.2

Using the power of...

0:19.6

Science!

0:20.4

Science!

0:21.1

Science!

0:22.0

I like it.

0:22.9

MUSIC

0:26.1

Hello and welcome to a little preview

0:29.4

that we do sometimes.

0:30.4

Just a tiny little treat for your ears.

0:32.4

Little treat for your ears.

0:33.6

So this is the run up to series

0:36.5

a million, I think, well, up to now.

0:38.0

End.

0:38.5

End.

0:39.6

What is end?

0:40.1

Actually, I think we're on N plus one, right?

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