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Brian Cox and Robin Ince host a witty, irreverent look at the world through scientists' eyes.Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Science through humor • Comedians and experts • Real-life applications • Nature and animals • Space and cosmos • Human behavior • Scientific phenomena • Historical insights • Critical thinkingThis podcast, titled "The Infinite Monkey Cage," is hosted by Brian Cox and Robin Ince, who guide listeners through an engaging exploration of the world through a scientific lens. The content is characterized by its blend of scientific inquiry, comedic interplay, and thought-provoking discussions. Episodes span a wide array of themes within the realms of science, culture, and human curiosity.
The show delves into deep scientific concepts, such as particle physics and the mysteries of quantum mechanics, often presenting complex topics like the Higgs Boson and cosmic dust in an accessible manner. Additionally, it does not shy away from speculative domains, exploring the possibility of extraterrestrial life and the potential end scenarios for the universe.
Moreover, the podcast often features discussions on the intersection of science and daily life. Topics such as the nutritional merits of food, the science behind gardening, and advancements in AI are explored, shedding light on how scientific principles affect everyday experiences. The show also covers evolutionary biology, looking into the lives of various species from spiders to sharks, and examining phenomena like mummification and the history embedded in ancient DNA.
The podcast regularly addresses the theme of human nature and behavior, discussing topics like love, gambling, failure, and even murder, reflecting on how scientific insights can provide a deeper understanding of these aspects. In several episodes, the hosts and their guests tackle conceptual inquiries about the fundamental nature of reality, touching on subjects like infinity, the origin of the universe, and the possibility of parallel universes.
In addition to pure scientific inquiry, the show often interweaves historical, cultural, and philosophical perspectives, contemplating the coexistence of science and religion, and the role of comedy and storytelling in interpreting scientific phenomena. Overall, "The Infinite Monkey Cage" offers a lively amalgamation of humor and science, making complex and sometimes esoteric content accessible and engaging.
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The Infinite Monkey's Guide To… Audience Favourites (Pt 2)2024-May-29 22 minutes |
The Infinite Monkey's Guide To… Tiny Things2024-May-22 22 minutes |
The Infinite Monkey's Guide To… The Future2024-May-15 19 minutes |
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The Infinite Monkey's Guide To… Failure 2024-May-08 16 minutes |
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The Infinite Monkey's Guide To… Gambling 2024-May-01 19 minutes |
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The Infinite Monkey's Guide To… The Gods 2024-Apr-24 22 minutes |
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The Infinite Monkey's Guide To… Talking to Aliens 2024-Apr-17 19 minutes |
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The Infinite Monkey's Guide To… Gardening 2024-Apr-10 18 minutes |
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The Infinite Monkey's Guide To… Love 2024-Apr-03 19 minutes |
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The Infinite Monkey's Guide To… Murder 2024-Mar-27 20 minutes |
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Higgs Boson 2024-Mar-20 42 minutes |
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Cats v Dogs 2024-Mar-13 42 minutes |
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Poison 2024-Mar-06 42 minutes |
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Asteroids 2024-Feb-28 42 minutes |
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Could it be magic? 2024-Feb-21 42 minutes |
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Egyptian Mummies 2024-Feb-14 42 minutes |
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The Monkeys meet The Sky at Night 2023-Dec-20 57 minutes |
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Jo Brand's Quantum World 2023-Dec-13 42 minutes |
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Hollywood in Space 2023-Dec-06 42 minutes |
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The Scale of Life (or were dinosaurs just too big?) 2023-Nov-29 42 minutes |
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How I is AI? 2023-Nov-22 42 minutes |
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The Science of Coincidence 2023-Nov-14 42 minutes |
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The Infinite Monkey’s Guide to... Audience Favourites 2023-Nov-08 23 minutes |
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Octopuses! 2023-Nov-08 42 minutes |
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The Infinite Monkey’s Guide to... Infinity 2023-Nov-01 18 minutes |
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The Infinite Monkey’s Guide to... Being Human 2023-Oct-25 17 minutes |
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The Infinite Monkey’s Guide to... Oceans 2023-Oct-18 23 minutes |
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The Infinite Monkey’s Guide to... Building a Universe 2023-Oct-11 19 minutes |
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The Infinite Monkey’s Guide to... Strawberries 2023-Oct-04 23 minutes |
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The Infinite Monkey’s Guide to... The Movies 2023-Sep-27 22 minutes |
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The Infinite Monkey’s Guide To... Space Travel 2023-Sep-20 20 minutes |
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The Infinite Monkey’s Guide To... The Apocalypse 2023-Sep-13 18 minutes |
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The Infinite Monkey’s Guide to... The Supernatural 2023-Sep-06 21 minutes |
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Welcome to The Infinite Monkey's Guide To... 2023-Sep-05 2 minutes |
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Cosmic Dust 2023-Aug-05 42 minutes |
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Ancient DNA Secrets 2023-Jul-29 42 minutes |
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The Secret Life of Sharks 2023-Jul-22 42 minutes |
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The Magic of Mushrooms 2023-Jul-15 42 minutes |
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Bees v Wasps 2023-Jul-08 42 minutes |
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Supervolcanoes 2023-Jul-01 43 minutes |
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Are we what we eat? 2023-Jun-24 42 minutes |
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Magic Materials 2023-Mar-25 42 minutes |
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How Far Can the Human Body Go? 2023-Mar-18 42 minutes |
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How to Commit the Perfect Murder 2023-Mar-11 42 minutes |
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How to think like a mathematician 2023-Mar-04 42 minutes |
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Australia’s Scary Spiders 2023-Feb-25 42 minutes |
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Southern Skies 2023-Feb-18 42 minutes |
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Why does wine taste good? 2022-Dec-24 42 minutes |
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The Deep Space Network 2022-Dec-17 43 minutes |
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The Age of Conspiracy? 2022-Dec-10 42 minutes |
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Can we cure ageing? 2022-Dec-03 42 minutes |
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Hunting for Exoplanets 2022-Nov-26 42 minutes |
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Exploring our solar system 2022-Nov-19 42 minutes |
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What have we learnt from Covid? 2022-Nov-12 42 minutes |
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How to Teach Maths 2022-Sep-03 42 minutes |
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Brains 2022-Aug-27 42 minutes |
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Astronauts 2022-Aug-20 42 minutes |
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Black Holes 2022-Aug-13 42 minutes |
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The Wood Wide Web 2022-Aug-06 42 minutes |
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Exploring the Deep 2022-Jul-30 42 minutes |
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Bats v Flies 2022-Jul-23 42 minutes |
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A History of Rock 2021-Feb-15 42 minutes |
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The Fundamentals of Reality 2021-Feb-08 41 minutes |
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The Science of Cooking 2021-Feb-01 43 minutes |
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Neanderthals 2021-Jan-25 38 minutes |
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Under our Night Sky 2021-Jan-18 57 minutes |
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In Praise of Flies 2021-Jan-11 38 minutes |
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Does Time Exist? 2020-Aug-26 43 minutes |
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What is Life? 2020-Jul-20 28 minutes |
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When the Monkeys Met the Chimps 2020-Jun-29 50 minutes |
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The Sun 2020-Jun-22 40 minutes |
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An Astronaut's Guide to Isolation 2020-Jun-15 45 minutes |
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Space Archaeology 2020-Jun-08 56 minutes |
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Black Holes 2020-Jun-01 34 minutes |
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The End of the Universe 2020-May-25 28 minutes |
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UFO special 2020-Feb-12 42 minutes |
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Lucy Beaumont's Close Encounters 2020-Feb-12 12 minutes |
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Quantum Worlds 2020-Feb-10 43 minutes |
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Fire 2020-Feb-03 37 minutes |
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Coral Reefs 2020-Jan-27 45 minutes |
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Conspiracy Theories 2020-Jan-20 33 minutes |
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Science of Laughter 2020-Jan-13 43 minutes |
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Brits in Space 2019-Oct-14 59 minutes |
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Anniversary of the Periodic Table 2019-Oct-07 37 minutes |
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Science of Dreaming 2019-Sep-30 44 minutes |
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Clever Creatures 2019-Sep-23 41 minutes |
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Dinosaurs 2019-Sep-16 46 minutes |
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The Infinite Moonkey Cage 2019-Jul-20 58 minutes |
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How We Measure the Universe 2019-Feb-11 38 minutes |
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How to Build a Bionic Human 2019-Feb-04 42 minutes |
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Are humans still evolving? 2019-Jan-28 47 minutes |
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Origin of Numbers 2019-Jan-21 35 minutes |
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The Future of Humanity 2019-Jan-14 35 minutes |
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Microbes: Secret Rulers of the World? 2019-Jan-07 46 minutes |
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GCHQ 2018-Aug-13 38 minutes |
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Special Bonus Edition 2018-Aug-09 17 minutes |
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The Human Voice 2018-Aug-06 38 minutes |
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Immune System 2018-Jul-30 40 minutes |
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Invasion 2018-Jul-23 41 minutes |
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Big Data 2018-Jul-16 44 minutes |
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The Infinite Monkey Cage 100 2018-Jul-11 57 minutes |
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Volcanoes 2018-Feb-12 42 minutes |
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How Animals Behave 2018-Feb-05 43 minutes |
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Teenage Brain 2018-Jan-29 43 minutes |
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Antibiotics 2018-Jan-22 38 minutes |
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The Secret Life of Birds 2018-Jan-15 46 minutes |
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When Two Stars Collide 2018-Jan-08 40 minutes |
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Christmas Special 2017: The Science of Magic 2017-Dec-25 47 minutes |
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The Mind v the Brain 2017-Aug-07 50 minutes |
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Are We Living in a Simulation? 2017-Jul-31 38 minutes |
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Will insects inherit the earth? 2017-Jul-24 43 minutes |
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Oxygen: A Matter of Life and Death 2017-Jul-17 39 minutes |
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Astronaut Special 2017-Jul-10 44 minutes |
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What Particles Remain to be Discovered? 2017-Jul-03 45 minutes |
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Making the Invisible Visible 2017-Feb-13 46 minutes |
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The Human Story: How We Got Here and Why We Survived. 2017-Feb-06 40 minutes |
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Oceans: What Remains to Be Discovered? 2017-Jan-30 44 minutes |
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Science's Epic Fails 2017-Jan-23 46 minutes |
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How to Beat the House and Win at Games 2017-Jan-16 42 minutes |
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The Science of Everyday Life 2017-Jan-10 45 minutes |
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Christmas Special 2016 2016-Dec-27 41 minutes |
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The Universe: What Remains to Be Discovered? 2016-Aug-01 46 minutes |
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200 Years of Frankenstein 2016-Jul-25 51 minutes |
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Battle of the Sexes 2016-Jul-18 45 minutes |
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Science of Sleep 2016-Jul-11 38 minutes |
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The Recipe to Build a Universe 2016-Jul-04 51 minutes |
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The Sound of Music 2016-Jun-27 42 minutes |
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Brian and Robin's Infinite Inbox 2016-Feb-25 46 minutes |
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Climate Change 2016-Feb-15 49 minutes |
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Maths of Love and Sex 2016-Feb-08 46 minutes |
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What Is Reality? 2016-Feb-01 41 minutes |
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Invisible Universe 2016-Jan-25 39 minutes |
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What is Race? 2016-Jan-18 46 minutes |
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Artificial Intelligence 2016-Jan-12 43 minutes |
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Christmas Special 2015 2015-Dec-25 46 minutes |
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Episode 2 2015-Dec-15 27 minutes |
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Episode 1 2015-Dec-08 29 minutes |
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Forensic Science 2015-Aug-10 49 minutes |
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Speed 2015-Aug-03 47 minutes |
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The Infinite Monkey Cage USA Tour: San Francisco 2015-Jul-27 47 minutes |
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The Infinite Monkey Cage USA Tour: Chicago 2015-Jul-20 45 minutes |
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The Infinite Monkey Cage USA Tour: Los Angeles 2015-Jul-13 45 minutes |
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The Infinite Monkey Cage USA Tour: New York 2015-Jul-06 47 minutes |
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Serendipity 2015-Feb-23 43 minutes |
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What Is the Point of Plants? 2015-Feb-16 35 minutes |
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When Quantum Goes Woo 2015-Feb-09 44 minutes |
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Solar System 2015-Feb-02 54 minutes |
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Fierce Creatures 2015-Jan-26 42 minutes |
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Deception 2015-Jan-19 43 minutes |
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Christmas Special 2014 2014-Dec-25 50 minutes |
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Irrationality 2014-Aug-11 44 minutes |
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Before the Big Bang 2014-Aug-04 41 minutes |
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Can Science Save Us? 2014-Jul-28 53 minutes |
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Does Science Need War? 2014-Jul-21 39 minutes |
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Are Humans Uniquely Unique? 2014-Jul-14 46 minutes |
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Numbers Numbers Everywhere 2014-Jul-07 45 minutes |
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Brian and Robin's Infinite Inbox 2014-Mar-10 27 minutes |
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Science and Spin 2013-Dec-23 38 minutes |
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Should We Pander to Pandas? 2013-Dec-16 35 minutes |
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To Infinity and Beyond 2013-Dec-09 34 minutes |
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Science Rocks! 2013-Dec-02 42 minutes |
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Through the Doors of Perception 2013-Nov-25 41 minutes |
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Risk 2013-Nov-18 37 minutes |
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Science Museum 2013-Jul-29 44 minutes |
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Alfred Russel Wallace 2013-Jul-22 28 minutes |
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What Makes Science a Science? 2013-Jul-15 37 minutes |
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Space Tourism 2013-Jul-08 41 minutes |
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Glastonbury 2013-Jul-01 43 minutes |
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What Is Death? 2013-Jun-24 28 minutes |
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Christmas Special: The Science of Christmas Behaviour 2012-Dec-24 28 minutes |
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Creating Life 2012-Dec-17 28 minutes |
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Brain Science 2012-Dec-10 28 minutes |
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Secret Science 2012-Dec-03 28 minutes |
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Improbable Science 2012-Nov-26 28 minutes |
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Space Exploration 2012-Nov-19 28 minutes |
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Science v Art 2012-Jul-23 27 minutes |
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Parallel Universes 2012-Jul-16 28 minutes |
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The Science of Symmetry 2012-Jul-08 28 minutes |
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Does Size Matter? 2012-Jul-02 28 minutes |
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Science Mavericks 2012-Jun-25 28 minutes |
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Oceans: The Last Great Unexplored Frontier? 2012-Jun-18 28 minutes |
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The Science of Christmas 2011-Dec-26 28 minutes |
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I'm a Chemist Get Me Out of Here 2011-Dec-19 28 minutes |
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The Science of Sound 2011-Dec-12 28 minutes |
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The Origins of Life 2011-Dec-05 28 minutes |
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A Balanced Programme on Balance 2011-Nov-28 28 minutes |
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What's the North Ever Done for Us? 2011-Nov-21 28 minutes |
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Science vs The Supernatural: Does Science Kill the Magic? 2011-Jul-05 28 minutes |
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Is There Room for Mysticism in a Rational World? 2011-Jun-27 30 minutes |
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Is Cosmology Really a Science? 2011-Jun-20 28 minutes |
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So You Want To Be An Astronaut? 2011-Jun-13 28 minutes |
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Six Degrees 2011-Jun-06 30 minutes |
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What Don't We Know? 2011-May-30 27 minutes |
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Philosophy 2010-Dec-06 30 minutes |
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Randomness 2010-Nov-29 28 minutes |
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Modern World 2010-Nov-22 28 minutes |
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Apocalypse 2010-Nov-15 28 minutes |
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Things Can Only Get Better? 2010-Jul-05 28 minutes |
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Science Fiction, Science Fact 2010-Jun-28 28 minutes |
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Trust me, I'm a Scientist 2010-Jun-21 28 minutes |
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Popular Science 2010-Jun-14 28 minutes |
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Science and Religion 2009-Dec-21 25 minutes |
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Quantum Physics 2009-Dec-14 25 minutes |
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Extraterrestrial Life 2009-Dec-07 25 minutes |
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Science and Comedians 2009-Nov-30 25 minutes |