There are lots of things you could say about Clive James, whose death has been announced today. But I was, of course, particularly drawn to his work in Formula 1. Read full article
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Who’s laughing now? The science behind the UN’s reaction to Trump
Who’s laughing now? The science behind the UN’s reaction to Trump
The calculations that were going through Donald Trump’s head when the UN laughed at him.
Part of the way humans respond to laughter is to work out whether we are included in it or excluded from it, and whether we are being laughed with or laughed at. I see people’s brains truly light up in the MRI scanner when they listen to laughter, as they’re trying to figure this all out.
14 things that made me feel old at the age of 31
Turning 30 passed relatively without incident. But for some reason, the year I became 31 is the year I started to believe I would never feel young again. Read full article
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‘You can’t see the join!’ — Recovering Morecambe and Wise
A late Christmas present from the BBC Research & Development blog. Three fascinating articles about an attempt to recover a long-lost 1968 Morecambe and Wise episode from a rotting roll of film discovered in the vaults of a Nigerian broadcaster.
It involves some pretty advanced tech development work – a ‘diseased’ film, a trip to Nigeria, dentistry, lasers, X-ray tomography, algorithms and some goo…
The year of the podcast
Just when it seemed as though podcasts would never break into the mainstream, 2014 seems to be the year they made it. Here are some of the podcasts that are currently floating my boat. Read full article
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