Quentin Cooper discusses Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiments on their 50th anniversary, the science behind illusioneering and new research which suggests our Moon’s lopsided shape is due to a collision with a companion moon.

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Weekly science conversation, on everything from archaeology to zoology, from abacus to the antipodean rodent zyzomys, by way of meteorites. Presented by Quentin Cooper, and airing every Thursday, 4:30 pm.
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Folge vom 04.08.2011Material: Quentin on Milgram’s Obedience Studies, the science behind illusioneering and our lopsided moon.
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Folge vom 28.07.2011Material World: Searching for Higgs, badger cull, diamonds, music and neuroscienceQuentin hears how scientists are closing in on the Higgs, if culling badgers is scientific, how diamonds reveal the first continental drift and how neurons inspire music.
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Folge vom 21.07.2011Material WorldQuentin Coopers hears about the arrival of NASA’s Dawn spaceprobe at the asteroid Vesta, the last Space Shuttle flight, reducing animal experiments, and the physics of cricket.
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Folge vom 14.07.2011Material World: Hidden landscapes, Mythical monsters and Tibetan singing bowls.This week, Quentin Cooper explores hidden landscapes under the ice of Antarctica and underwater volcanoes off its coast. He hears of a vast land that emerged from the North Atlantic, only to be lost again beneath the waves. He asks what the quest for mythical monsters can bring to human psychology and the study of rare species. And he hears the mathematical secrets of the Tibetan singing bowl.