2024-10-19
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This is the Happy Pod from the BBC World Service.
I'm Paul Moss and in this edition we meet the Teenage Human Calculator.
It feels good and amazing when I complete the task correctly.
Also, it was wonderful to be able to say because you helped us to complete this clinical trial, we will now be able to use this treatment or it will be available to other women in the future.
The new treatment which could slash the risk of dying from cervical cancer and the festival hoping to change the perception of East Asian music.
There is a whole wealth of culture from all of eastern Southeast Asia that is very, very unique and very, very representative of day to day life for a lot of people.
We start with a puzzle or maybe two.
What's the square root of 93?
All right, here's another one.
What day of the week Was it on the 12th of August, 1832?
You don't know?
Well, me neither, but I have had the chance to speak to a 14 year old boy who could work out the answer to questions like this.