Melvyn Bragg is joined by guests Janet Hartley, Anthony Cross and Simon Dixon to discuss the founding and flourishing of Peter the Great’s alternative to Moscow
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IOT: The Building of St Petersburg from In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg
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SciA: 10 April 09
This week we talk to a physicist making an impact in both science and politics. Neil Turok has worked with the world’s leading physicists on developing theories of how the universe started. He also set up AIMS, the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Based in Cape Town AIMS is a unique institution offering postgraduate training in mathematical science to African students.
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SciA: The Final Frontier 3 April 09
How did our universe begin? How did galaxies, stars and planets form? How did life begin and was there ever life on Mars? Why are we here? Jon Stewart investigates the big questions of the cosmos.
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IOT: The Library at Alexandria from In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg is joined by Simon Goldhill, Matthew Nichols and Serafina Cuomo to discuss the ancient Library of Alexandria - one of the most ambitious knowledge projects of its time
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This Week in Science - 10 March, 2009
Chickosaurus!, Horsing Around, The Moon Rules, Religious Brains, Cells and Ladders, Asteroids, Moonlets, and Holes, Oh, My!, Optimism, Naptime, and Avoiding Old Age, and The Question of the Month Minion Style.
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IOT: The measurement problem in physics
Melvyn Bragg is joined by Roger Penrose, Basil Hiley and Simon Saunders to discuss the bizarre nature of atoms and the conundrum at the heart of quantum physics
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This Week in Science - 03 March, 2009
Stem Cell Stories, First Cats Now Dogs, Dirty Bombs and Old Bottles, X-ray Super Veggies, This Week in Dead People, and Justin Wants To Be A Pregnant Vegan.
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SciA: 26 Feb 09 Evolutionary Footsteps; Brain and Beauty; Age and Memory; African Violets and Anthrax
They are 1.5 million years old – footprints from our ancestors found in Kenya which could explain how we evolved to walk and migrate; Men and Women are obviously different but now it seems the way the decide what is beautiful or not is different too and can be seen happening in the brain; How we can combat the decline of memory in old age?; and stop the pathogens, stop the disease – what is the link between African Violets and deadly disease Anthrax?
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IOT: The Waste Land and Modernity
Melvyn Bragg discusses T.S. Eliot’s poem, ‘The Waste Land’, with Steve Connor, Fran Brearton and Lawrence Rainey.
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SciA: 19 Feb 09 The American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting.
Sue Broom reports from the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago. Stories include Darwinism applied to international security; what Darwin didn’t know about how microbes evolve; Darwin Day events at a church; and scientists who advise on Hollywood films.