Roland Pease

My pleasure.

This show takes wing thanks to the talents of senior producers Seth Shostak and Gary Niederhoff, producers Shannon Geary and Brian Edwards, and contributors Sikhan Akban and Roland Pease.

I am the executive producer of Big Picture Science, Molly Bentley.

Also, big thanks to our listeners and our Patreon supporters.

This week, what do the 1851 census of Bedlington, a critical supplement to the Atlas of British Flora, the International Conference on Frequency Control and Jane Eyre have in common? And if that doesn't entice you in, then, well, frankly, I don't know what we can do.

But maybe Roland Pease will pique your interest with the story of ancient human hair that has revealed the earliest evidence of cannabis use.

For those still with us after that, we're going on a trip to the Zeptoverse.

All that, and we have member of the Scienceverse, Penny Sarche from The New Scientist.

Hey.

It's probably time to move on to our next story and travel back 2,800 years with

Roland Pease.

I have news of the oldest evidence of the use of cannabis.

This was a great conversation.

Our show lives and breathes by the talents of senior producers Seth Shostak and Gary Niederhoff, producers Shannon Geary and Brian Edwards, and contributors Sikhan Akban and Roland Pease.

I am the executive producer of Big Picture Science, Molly Bentley.

Also, a big thanks to our listeners and our Patreon supporters.

But what of the sharks of the Shelikov? The bream of the Baltic? The animals not even fortunate enough to alliterate with their location? Well, we'll have more on that.

Talking of environmental pressures on this week, what also of the woman who discovered CO2 heated us up and was overlooked until now? And before we get too tree-huggy on Inside Science this week, Roland Pease talks to us about a new paper which provides a comprehensive map for water demand across Africa.

And after all that, I think we need to hear from another endangered species, the mathematician in the age of AI.

Kit Yates is joining me with some of the other week's stories, and frankly, to help him gain a diversified CV before being replaced by machines.

On Good Bad Billionaire from the BBC World Service, we're delving into the life and fortune of billionaire businessman Gautam Adani.

Listen on BBC.com, the BBC app, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Now, time to check in with Roland Pease, who has been investigating water availability across Africa.

Nature magazine this week carries the most complete map, or set of maps rather, of water usage and demand across Africa that I've ever seen, from the Nile Delta through the Congo rainforests down to Cape Town, which nearly ran out of water last decade.

27 minutes to tell you about a mission to Mars and back.

Or 1620 seconds in which we also have to squeeze in an interview from Roland Pease who takes us to the top of the world to a new finding that climate change stopped the next ice age in its tracks.

Or, put another way, we have 1.5 times 10 to the 13 oscillations of a microwave beam when tuned to a cesium atom to also squeeze in our final item on updating the atomic definition of a second.

And in between all that, we need to find a few microwave oscillations to chat to Penny Sarchet from New Scientist about all the other news.

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Now time to check in with Roland Pease and an idea that if it weren't for climate change, we could be heading towards another ice age.

The United Nations Environment Programme warned earlier this week that we'll have to work really hard if we're to avoid 1.8 degrees of man-made warming.

Such a pleasure.

This show would not be possible without the blooming talents of senior producers Seth Shostak and Gary Niederhoff, producers Shannon Geary, that is Shannon Rose Geary, and Brian Edwards, and contributors Sikan Akban and Roland Pease.

I am the executive producer of Big Picture Science, Molly Bentley.

Also, a big thanks to our listeners and our Patreon supporters.

We catch up with what it's been up to.

Our international man of science, Roland Pease, will also take us back in time to visit our Neanderthal cousins and investigate a curious-looking injury.

And the man who is fighting against Indian herbal medicine and a lot of the Indian establishment with it.

The first of a series looking at finalists for the Maddox Prize for standing up for science.

I'm gonna say it will be the hottest year on record.

Thank you, Mark.

Now, time to check in with Roland Pease with a look at the dark side of prehistoric life.

A tale of probable violence, but also some charity among Neanderthals, Tom.

Kate Shaw is an experimental particle physicist at the University of Sussex who works on the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, or DUNE.

Well, Roland Pease, we turn to you now.

Your background is physics.

You've covered particle physics for years.

Uh, so that's my defense of why people like Harry Cliff, [laughs] like Kate Shaw, like, uh, Kimberly Palladino should keep doing this important work.

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This show would not be possible without that enthusiasm and the smashing contributions of senior producers Seth Shostak and Gary Niederhoff, producers Brian Edwards and Shannon Geary, and consultants Nsikan Akpan and Roland Pease.

I am the executive producer of Big Picture Science, Molly Bentley.