World’s Oldest Ritual | New Scientist Weekly podcast 257

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Two extraordinary findings have been unearthed about our ancient ancestors. The first is a discovery from a cave in Australia - evidence of what could be the world’s oldest ritual, practised continuously for 12,000 years. And the second is the discovery that the world’s oldest evidence of storytelling may be even older than we thought.
We may be able to mine for nickel using flowers. The method is much more sustainable than traditional mining and is actually being used by some companies. Is it enough to turn mining green?
Quantum communication is going wireless. The new chip responsible for this quantum Wi-Fi is a huge step forward for the technology and could speed up the creation of safer, unhackable internet networks.
From onboard a kayak roaming the Arctic Ocean, Rowan Hooper brings a report from his trip to Svalbard, where he saw first-hand the retreating glaciers that have been melting rapidly due to climate change. As these glaciers disappear, soil is being exposed for the first time. What impact is this having on the landscape? Rowan speaks to arctic biogeochemist James Bradley of Queen Mary University, London.
Plus: The first non-human animal to perform medical amputations; giving the moon a time-zone; and how eggshells can help regrow broken bones.
Hosts Timothy Revell and Christie Taylor discuss with guests James Woodford, James Dinneen, Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, Rowan Hooper and James Bradley.
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@ninalehman9054 Ай бұрын

The “wizard” sticks story is just amazing. My guess is that they used the fat of the kind of creature they wished to harm. Want to hunt kangaroo? Use kangaroo fat. This is called sympathetic magic

@lavrentievv Ай бұрын

New Science: where challenging and mocking dumb ideas gets censored 😂

@deslatt1172 Ай бұрын

Why was the comments turned off and deleted on the Layal Liverpool interview.?

@helenamcginty4920 Ай бұрын

My guess is that the topic will attract insults rather than reasoned comments. It is possible to disagree without insulting but a lot of racist people seem to be generally angry and just focus on race. Their comments tend not to be balanced.

@deslatt1172 Ай бұрын

From my recollection of the comments , none of them could be described as gratuitously insulting . Most were reasonable responses to Ms Liverpools unfounded allegations. One I think refered to her arguments as "stupid" . Most of the comments disagreed with her and were reasonable and respectful It seems New Scientist is not interested in reasonable debate @@helenamcginty4920

@Finnegas-Eces Ай бұрын

One possible explination is that since it's a 25 minute ideological Gish gallop with 0% science on display, people called her out on it...and New Scientist can't handle the truth. Another contender is that as it amounted to little more than a Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Everything is Racist Party, people found it an odious insult to intelligence and expressed their feelings accordingly. Which the poor old New Scientist found to be hurty hurty...bless their tender souls!

@jonathanedwardgibson Ай бұрын

I’d rather more pix of examples being discussed than foley-noise sound effects interrupting already drawn-out narratives.

@helenamcginty4920 Ай бұрын

There is nothing wrong with the word wizzard being used as a synonym for medicine man or woman. It derives from old English wys meaning wise. No need for quotation marks. I expect the 19th century chap knew this. After all dungeons and dragons etc hadnt been invented back then.

@kingfillins4117 Ай бұрын

Hi. Could you please explain why you have turned the comments off on your recent racism and health video? Promoting such pseudoscientific ideas surely qualifies for debate? You are meant to be a scientific channel, though that video simply presents critical race theory ideology. You could at least start with the premise that correlation does not equal causation and go from there.

@Finnegas-Eces Ай бұрын

Ha, ha...nice angle, but you're right, it could indeed have been a wonderful learning opportunity...how to tell the difference between scientific fool's gold and the real thing! However, what you must remember is that whatever New Scientist (and for that matter Scientific American) once was it is now ideologically afflicted. It's an amusing irony that such a scientific institution has become (using common parlance here) infected with an anti-scientific mind virous.