The Beauty Puzzle

One spring evening in 2024, a science journalist named Rachel Gross bombed at karaoke. The culprit was a bleed in a fist-sized clump of neurons tucked down in the back of her brain called the cerebellum. A couple weeks later, her doctors took a bit of it out, assuring her it was ...  Show more

Most of us spend some part of our lives feeling bad about ourselves and wanting to feel better. But this preoccupation is a surprisingly new one in the history of the world, and can largely be traced back to one man: a rumpled, convertible-driving California state representative ...  Show more

The value society places on physical appearance has never quite made sense to blind presenter Lyndall Bywater and yet she's intrigued to discover why it matters so much to those of us in the sighted world. How much of an advantage is it to be beautiful? And what is physical beaut ...  Show more

Können wir Tiere verstehen? Die Verhaltensbiologie sucht nach wissenschaftlichen Antworten, Tierfreunde ziehen ihre Erkenntnisse aus dem Zusammenleben mit dem Vierbeiner. Und Philosophen haben dazu ihre eigenen Meinungen. (BR 2019) Autorin: Christiane Seiler 

From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked, their stories lost, distorted, or actively suppressed. Forces of Nature sets the record straight and charts the fascinating history of women's discoverie ...  Show more

Singer songwriter Sophie Ellis-Bextor is Gabby’s guest this week! Gabby chats to her about being a working mum to five boys and what it’s like when your eldest is leaving home the same week that your youngest is starting school; how her legendary <a href="https://www.bbc.co. ...  Show more