I think we should call them beefroskeeters hbu #science #biology #dna #genetics

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The Greater Wax Moth: this moth has the most sensitive hearing of any animal in the world, with its tiny ears detecting frequencies of up to 300,000Hz; just to put that into perspective, humans can detect frequencies as high as 20,000Hz, while dogs can detect up to 65,000Hz, and bats up to 210,000

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The winning sand sculpture of 2019’s Texas Sand Sculpture Festival.

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Why is equilux not on equinox? #shorts

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Scientists Finally Cracked Why We Yawn

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Moon landing photos you’ve never seen before! #space #astronomy #nasa #conspiracy #science

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Epstein, Maxwell, Prince Andrew: the “backstage” lens

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Nobel Prize winner at Epstein’s house! #science #epsteinfiles #womeninstem #sciencenews #nobelprize

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Standard Average European: The European Sprachbund

14 Dec 2019
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BBC Radio 4 – Add to Playlist, Nicholas McCarthy and Amy Harman watch the clock

Bassoonist Amy Harman and concert pianist Nicholas McCarthy are the studio guests of Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe as they add five more tracks. Kicking off with an internationally famous track written in Ostend in Belgium, they end up in a gravel pit via a ticking clock or two.

Producer Jerome Weatherald
Presented with musical direction by Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe

The five tracks in this week’s playlist:

Sexual Healing by Marvin Gaye
Clocks by Coldplay
The Clock (the 2nd mvt) from Symphony No 101 in D Major by Haydn
Precipitato (the 3rd mvt) from Piano Sonata No 7 in B Flat Major by Prokofiev
Gravel Pit by Wu-Tang Clan

Other music in this episode:

Etudes: Op 8 No 12 in D-Flat Minor by Scriabin, played by Nicholas McCarthy
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D-Major by Ravel, played by Nicholas McCarthy
On the Road Again (Live) by Willie Nelson
Who’ll Buy My Memories by Willie Nelson
Impulse by Hans Zimmer
Lux Aeterna by Clint Mansell
Nautilus by Anna Meredith
It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World by James Brown
Da Mystery of Chessboxin by Wu-Tang Clan

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