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calmer place within. Listen on BBC Sounds. Hello listeners and hello audience. You're listening to crowd science from the BBC World Service with me

Marnie Chesterton and this week we're at the free-thinking festival in Gateshead in the

north of England. It's like our normal program but with a live audience so no

swearing audience. Now for those of you who've not

come across crowd science before we're the show that takes your questions about anything vaguely

scientific and then turns them into radio. Past shows have covered everything from search for

dark matter to exploring the ecosystem in a listener's vacuum cleaner which I

loved. It's like David Attenborough but with dust. I've met a sex-changing Mandarin duck I've also raised a skeptical eyebrow at the

subject of life after death and the science thereof we have over 70 episodes in our back catalogue and the easiest way to access them is to go to wherever you find your podcasts and subscribe, download and enjoy.

That's enough podcast plugging for now. We have a show to record and a panel of

experts ready and champing at the bit. But like I said this show always starts with a

listener question and I'm just going to go and say hello to this week's

questioner who's joined us in the crowd. Hello what's your name and where do you come

from? My name is Kathy Danes and I'm from Suffolk in the UK. Great

Cath what's your question?

My question is, why do we follow the crowd?

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