Will insects inherit the earth?

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Will Insects Inherit the Earth?

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined on stage by comedian Dave Gorman, zoologist Tim Cockerill and forensic entomologist Amoret Whitaker. They'll be discovering the joy of creepy crawlies, why the flea is the ultimate master of Darwinian evolution, and whether those pesky cockroaches will really have the last laugh if we are unlucky enough to be wiped out by a nuclear explosion. They'll be discovering how and why insects have been by far the most successful group of organisms during the history of life on planet earth, and why we simply couldn't do without them.

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0:00.0	This is the BBC.
0:03.0	Hello, I'm Robin Hints.
0:04.0	I'm Brian Cox.
0:05.0	And this is the Infinite Monk Cage podcast,
0:07.0	which is a longer version than the one you hear
0:09.0	broadcast on Radio 4.
0:10.0	Let me stop you there, because you have to define what you mean,
0:12.0	because it could just be longer, because you're moving
0:14.0	at high speed relative to the listener.
0:17.0	Oh, yeah, I hadn't really thought of that.
0:19.0	Well, I suppose longer in terms of the minute measurement.
0:24.0	You see, you get an instrument.
0:25.0	Oh, this is really much harder than I thought.
0:27.0	You can define it in a particular way,
0:29.0	but you get a particular frame of reference.
0:31.0	So you can say, in this particular frame of reference,
0:33.0	where the player is at rest relative to the listener,
0:37.0	then the recording you may have made off the radio is shorter
0:41.0	than the recording on the podcast.
0:44.0	Thursday?
0:45.0	Is that a frame of reference Thursday?
0:47.0	It's roughly speaking.
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