In this episode, first aired in 2014, we examine three very different kinds of black boxes—spaces where we know what’s going in, we know what’s coming out, but can’t see what happens in-between. From the darkest parts of metamorphosis to a sixty-year-old secret among magicians, a ...Show more
Gray's Donation
Before he was even born, Sarah and Ross Gray knew that their son Thomas wouldn’t live long. But as they let go of him, they made a decision that reverberated through a world that they never bothered to think about. Years later, after a couple of awkward phone calls, they go on a ...Show more
Die Langlebigkeit mancher Tierarten gibt Rätsel auf. Etwa der Pfeilschwanzkrebs: Er überlebte mehr als 300 Millionen Jahre, ohne sich anzupassen. Altertümliche Lebensformen sind manchmal Überlebenskünstler. (BR 2015) Autorin: Prisca Straub Credits Autor/in dieser Folge: Prisca St ...Show more
Die Langlebigkeit mancher Tierarten gibt Rätsel auf. Etwa der Pfeilschwanzkrebs: Er überlebte mehr als 300 Millionen Jahre, ohne sich anzupassen. Altertümliche Lebensformen sind manchmal Überlebenskünstler. (BR 2015) Autorin: Prisca Straub Credits Autor/in dieser Folge: Prisca St ...Show more
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss mutation in genetics and evolution. When lying mortally ill with cancer, the British geneticist J.B.S. Haldane penned the following lines: Cancer's a Funny Thing:I wish I had the voice of HomerTo sing of rectal carcinoma,Which kills a lot more chap ...Show more
Brian Cox and Robin Ince embrace failure in its many forms, with a frank look at the importance of making mistakes. They examine the flaws in Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution with the anthropologist Alice Roberts, as she tells them no idea is totally watertight. And sometimes ...Show more