2024-08-07
42 分钟Brian Cox and Robin Ince talk hot air as they explore the pivotal role of gasses in our lives. Joining them to add some CO2 to the mix is material scientist Mark Miodownik, chemist Lucy Carpenter and comedian Dave Gorman. They discuss how humans came to even understand it existed in the first place as well as how many of the innovations in modern society have been underpinned by this mostly invisible and odourless substance. We laud the humble (or is it noble?) gas and its key role in technological innovation - from using laughing gas in anaesthesia to the combustion engine and of course the most important of all, the power source behind squirty cream. Producer: Melanie Brown Exec Producer: Alexandra Feachem BBC Studios Audio production
Your dead to me is back.
Yes, we are the comedy podcast that takes history seriously and then laughs at it.
We should always be the stupidest person in the room because then you're in the right room.
This series will be excavating evidence on a pioneering paleontologist.
We'll learn about LGBTQ life in Weimar, Germany.
And we'll take a novel look at the history of printing.
So informative.
Join me, Greg Jenner and gallant guests like Robin Ince, Ed Gamble and Sarah Pasco.
I'm aging myself now like a dinosaur fossil.
There used to be only four channels.
You're dead to me.
Listen on BBC Sounds.
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I'm Brian Cox.
I'm Robin Ince.
And this is the infinite monoxide cage.
Yep, that's right.
We are now the infinite monoxide cage, formerly the infinite monkey cage, which, of course, people will be very glad that we've changed it because everyone used to go, oh, the infinite monkey cage is so cruel to the infinite monkeys.
Yeah, they say it's infinite.
You just have to understand that.