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Bluffer's Guide To Science

Short answers to big questions

World Service,7 episodes

Episodes

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The Big Bang
The Universe is unimaginably vast and incredibly old. So how did it begin?
17 Dec 1995,4 mins
The Information Superhighway
How Senator Al Gore's High Performance Computing Act of 1991 helped create the internet
18 Dec 1995,4 mins
Radiation
What is radiation and how it can be both beneficial and harmful?
08 Jan 1996,4 mins
Evolution
The theory of evolution, one of the main building block of modern science, is explained
12 Jan 1996,4 mins
Ozone Hole
What is the ozone hole and its effect on the ozone layer? And why should we be concerned?
15 Jan 1996,4 mins
Climate Change
How does human behaviour influence climate change? And can it be stopped?
29 Jan 1996,4 mins
Relativity
Theoretical physicist Jonathan Halliwell explains Einstein's theory of relativity
07 Feb 1996,4 mins

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