Weekly: The gruesome story of the Viking skeleton found in a well

周刊:井中发现的维京骷髅的可怕故事

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2024-10-25

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Episode 273 The mystery of “Well Man”, an ancient cold case, has just been solved. A Norse saga tells that in 1197, in the midst of a Viking raid, warriors dumped a body in a well inside a castle. Over 800 years later, archeologists recovered a body from that very well – but didn’t have the technology to show it was the man from the saga… until now. Some welcome good news about the climate. Energy imbalance, a key measure of global warming, has been rising fast, sparking fears that warming is accelerating faster than models predicted. But new findings suggest those fears are overblown and that there is hope yet. Birth control pills may shrink your brain (a small amount). After experiencing mood and physical changes after coming off the pill, one neuroscientist discovered very little had been done to understand the impact of hormonal birth control on the brain. So she scanned her own brain 75 times over several months while on and off the pill. The results are in. Hosts Rowan Hooper and Chelsea Whyte discuss with guests James Woodford, Michael Martin, Michael Le Page, Ben Sandersen, Grace Wade and Carina Heller. To read more about these stories, visit https://www.newscientist.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Hello, and welcome to the latest dose of science news from New Scientist.

  • I'm Rowan Hooper and joined again by Chelsea White, now back in New York.

  • Hey, Chelsea, are you missing the fog and the crumpets of London Town?

  • I do miss you all in the London office, but Oliver Twist?

  • Yeah, but fall in Manhattan is my favorite time of year, so I'm glad to be back on the show.

  • This week, we're hearing from a neuroscientist who scanned her own brain 75 times over a few months and measured how it changed in volume depending on whether or not she was on the birth control pill.

  • We're also hearing some for once hopeful news on climate change, as the overall amount of heat energy being gained by the planet has fallen from a record set in 2023.

  • That's coming up.

  • But first, we're starting with ancient crime.

  • I think everyone is fascinated by crime stories when a famous old case is solved.

  • And in this story, we have a very cold case.

  • An 800-year-old account of a body being stashed in a well inside an ancient Norse castle way back in 1197.

  • Rowan's been hearing about it from our Australia reporter, James Woodford Rowan.

  • In 1938, a body from that well was recovered.