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THE MATERIAL WORLD
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Quentin Cooper reports on developments across the sciences. Each week scientists describe their work, conveying the excitement they feel for their research projects.
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LISTEN AGAIN Ìý30 min |
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"For me science isn't a subject, it's a perspective. There are fascinating scientific aspects to everything from ancient history to the latest gadgets, outer space to interior decorating; and each week on The Material World we try to reflect the excitement, ideas, uncertainties, collisions and collaborations as science continues its never-ending voyage into the unknown".
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| Home from Homer - a view over to ancient Ithaca? This land bridge may once have been open water. (Photographed by Robert Bittlestone) |
Hazardous Waste
As pressure grows for councils to recycle more and more material, just what is it we throw away? Someone has to find out, and that someone is Dr Nick Voulvoulis of Imperial College, whose team sorted through the bins of 500 households for over half a year, to see what might be hazardous, and what might be usefully recycled.
He’s joined in the studio by Professor Ken Peattie, an expert in sustainability in business from Cardiff University.
Homing in on Odysseus’ Home.
Homer’s Odyssey is the story of its hero’s eleven year quest to find his home island of Ithaca. If it’s a true story, it happened about 500 years before Homer composed his poem. Ever since then people have argued where the real island is.
Now one theory places it on a peninsula of modernÌýCephalonia – once separated, it’s supposed, by a narrow channel of water.
In two weeks time a team of geologists will be heading there to see how old the bridge of rock between the two parts is, and whether it could have been built by earthquake-induced landslides.
The leader of that team, Edinburgh’s Professor John Underhill joins Quentin Cooper and Durham University classicist Dr Barbara Graziosi to describe the theory and how their explorations will test it.
NEXTWEEK:Ìý Material World is in York for the British Association Festival of Science |
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