Le Projet Manhattan

Au début des années 1990, un physicien australien du nom de Denis Evans mène une expérience qui va faire vaciller une idée vieille de plus d’un siècle.Depuis toujours, on enseigne que l’entropie — ce fameux désordre de l’univers — ne peut qu’augmenter. C’est la deuxième loi de la ...  Show more

L’entropie, c’est un mot qui impressionne… alors que l’idée derrière est étonnamment simple.Imagine une chambre parfaitement rangée. Chaque objet est à sa place. Maintenant, laisse passer quelques jours sans rien faire. Que se passe-t-il ? Les vêtements s’accumulent, les objets s ...  Show more

The Suez Canal was once one of the busiest global shipping routes – a third of the world's shipping containers normally pass through it. Since the Houthis began to attack passing ships last year, the volume of vessels going through has declined rapidly.The canal is run by the Egy ...  Show more

A 50-mile man-made waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the creation of the Panama Canal was arguably the greatest infrastructure project the world had ever seen. But its journey from concept to completion was anything but simple, as it failed repeatedly, and pass ...  Show more

How did Britain and France almost start World War 3 in 1956? Who was Anthony Eden and why did he hate Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser? Why was the Suez Canal so vital to European oil supplies in the 1950s? Anita and William are joined by the brilliant Alex Von Tunzelmann, auth ...  Show more

On today's show, we look at two indicators of the economic disruptions of the war in Gaza and try to trace how far they will reach. We start in the Red Sea, a crucial link in the global supply chain connecting to the Suez Canal, with around 15% of the world's shipping passing thr ...  Show more