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SoT 322: Captain's Log
Science On Top
English - February 20, 2019 06:39 - 41 minutes - 30 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsNatural Sciences Science Health & Fitness Medicine astronomy chemistry geology news biology education maths microbiology physics science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall
00:01:48 When researchers from the Max Planck Institute were looking at the teeth of an 11th or 12th century German woman they found tiny bright blue specks. This was a clue that illuminated the role women may have played in the history of book production.
00:09:19 What if plants could be trained just like pet dogs? Spoiler alert: they can! Sort of.
00:12:12 Also, plants can hear you with their ear-flowers.
00:21:29 For spiders, their webs are also sensory organs. And depending on their body position, they can tune their webs to specific vibrations.
00:28:29 No longer aimlessly drifting, the Earth's magnetic North Pole seems to be moving determinedly towards Siberia.
This episode contains traces of Harrison Ford addressing the 2018 Global Climate Action Summit.