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Podcast Episode 103 I Kent’s Cavern: A Journey Through Time
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Welcome to Podcast Episode 103 on Kent's Cavern: A Journey Through Time, a fascinating cave system in Torquay, Devon, on England's southern coast.Por Saima Baig
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Podcast Episode 102 l Human Evolution and the Ice Ages
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This iepisode is on Human Evolution and how the Ice Ages impacted our lives for millennia. Perhaps even influencing our brains.Por Saima Baig
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Podcast Episode 101 l The History and Evolution of the Olympics
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Podcast Episode 101 is on The History and Evolution of the Olympics, where we talk about their begining in ancient Greece and evolution.Por Saima Baig
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Podcast Episode 100 l Seven Modern Wonders of the World
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The Seven Wonders of the World is a famous list of extraordinary constructions that have captivated our imagination for millennia and represent the pinnacle of ancient architectural and engineering achievements. These are the new seven wonders of the world, a list of which was compiled after a campaign was started to choose 'Wonders of the World' f…
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Podcast Episode 99 l Seven Ancient Wonders of the World
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In this episode we discuss the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World that have inspired people and are the pinnacle of architecture.Por Saima Baig
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Anniversay Podcast Episode 59 l Moon Landing Conspiracy Theory – Did it really happen?
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Podcast Episode Moon Landing Conspiracy Theory – Did it really happen? We talk about some of the favourite theories and try to debunk them.Por Saima Baig
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Anniversary Podcast l Podcast Episode 1 | Moon landing, Conspiracy theories and the Dark side
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July 20, 2019 marks 50 years since the first time humanity stepped foot on the moon and on our first podcast we talk about the moon itself, what led to the moon landing.Por Saima Baig
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Podcast Episode 98 l Romania’s Growing, Moving & Reproducing Stones
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Podcast Episode 98 is on Romania's Growing, Moving & Reproducing Stones that are only found in one small town.Por Saima Baig
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Discovered in 1998, Seahenge is a 4000 year old structure, estimated to have been built around 2049 BC.Por Saima Baig
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Podcast Episode 96 l Cholistan Desert its forts
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Podcast Episode 96 is Cholistan Desert its forts, ancient civilisations and its people. Derawar fort in particular is very beautiful.Por Saima Baig
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Podcast Episode 95 l How many moons does the Earth have?
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Technically, Earth has only one Moon. But here is the interesting thing. Over millions of years, the number of moons has varied. We talk about their story in this episode.Por Saima Baig
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This episode is on Noor Inayat Khan, an SOE agent with codename Madeleine sent to France in 1943 as a wireless operator to help the French resistance during World War II. Her job was to support the French resistance network known as Prosper.Por Saima Baig
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Podcast Episode 93 l A 3D Map of the Human Brain
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A 3D Map of the Human Brain has been created by a collaboration between Harvard researchers and Google Research analysing 1,400 terabytes of data.Por Saima Baig
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Deep in the heart of the Sahara Desert, amidst the scorching sands and towering dunes, lies a remarkable archaeological treasure - the Dabous Giraffes. They can be found on a sandstone outcrop in the Ténéré desert in the first foothills of the Aïr Mountains in North Central Niger. We tell their story in this episode of the 360 on History Podcast.…
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Podcast Episode 91 l Did this clay tablet describe an ancient asteroid impact?
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Podcast Episode 91 is on an ancient asteroid. Does a clay tablet describe an ancient asteroid impact? Two scientists certainly thought that it described an asteroid hitting earthPor Saima Baig
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Podcast Episode 90 l Our two cousins: A neanderthal and an orangutan
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We are discussing two different amazing news items in today's podcast. We have the reconstruction of the face of a 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal and then we learn about an orangutan who healed itself with a medicinal plant.Por Saima Baig
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Podcast Episode 89 l Driving on the Left or Right
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This 360 on History Podcast Episode is all about Driving. Whether you drive on the Left or Right, you can find out why here.Por Saima Baig
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Podcast Episode 88 l Mercian Queen Cynethryth
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This Fantastic Women Series podcast is about Cynethryth, who was Queen of Mercia and exerted power and influence along with her husband King Offa.Por Saima Baig
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Podcast Episode 87 l How the moon was formed
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Scientists have now answered the questions of how the moon was made in this New Simulation, showing that it formed very quickly after impact with another body called Theia. In this podcast we talk about the Moon, its structure and our fascination with it, as well as the new study.Por Saima Baig
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Podcast Episode 86 l Drastic Changes in Bird Evolution
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Recent advancements in genomic sequencing and analysis have started to unravel the intricate story of avian evolution. Two studies, published on April 1 in the journals Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and Nature, shed light on a genetic anomaly approximately 65 million years old (exactly when that asteroid hit) that has obscu…
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Podcast Episode 85 l The Eye of the Sahara
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Podcast Episode 85 is on The Eye of the Sahara, a geological structure found in the Saharan part of Mauritania in Africa.Por Saima Baig
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Podcast Episode 84 l When it rained for two million years: Carnian Pluvial Event
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Podcast Episode 84 is on When it rained for two million years, known as the Carnian Pluvial EventPor Saima Baig
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Podcast Episode 83 l Costa Rica’s Mysterious Stone Spheres
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Costa Rica is a lush country, with amazing ecology and environment. Amongst its green landscape can be found ancient structures known as the stone spheres of Costa Rica. The 300 spheres lie on the Diquís Delta and on Isla del Caño. To the locals they are known as bolas de piedra (stone balls) and are said to be attributed to the now extinct Disquis…
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Podcast Episode 82 l Rosalind Franklin
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Podcast Episode 82 is on Rosalind Franklin a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer, whose work was central to understanding the structure of DNA.Por Saima Baig
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Podcast Episode 81 l Crypto and Climate Change
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New Podcast Episode on Crypto and its impact on Climate Change with some possible Solutions that can decrease the impact.Por Saima Baig
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Podcast Episode 80 l Queen Kubaba of Mesopotamia
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Queen Kubaba was was a legendary Mesopotamian queen according to the Sumerian King List, who ruled over the Kingdom of Kish. Legend has it that her rule lasted over 100 years before the rise of the dynasty of Akshak (a city of ancient Sumer, situated on the northern boundary of Akkad).Por Saima Baig
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Podcast Episode 79 l Neptune – The Real Blue Planet
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Podcast Episode 79 is all about Neptune, which is The Real Blue Planet in our Solar System, as well as being an ice-giant orbiting the Sun from far away.Por 360onHistory
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Podcast Episode 78 l First ever solar heated house
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There was a time when three pioneering women first decided to heat a home with solar energy in December 1948? So we celebrate this amazing innovation and these three fantastic women.Por Saima Baig
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Podcast Episode 77 l The Defenestrations of Prague
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Have you heard of the Defenestration of Prague? First of all, how cool is the word defenestration? It means throwing someone out of the window and it happened three times in Prague's history. Listen to what happened in our latest podcast.Por Saima Baig
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The Americas have been traditionally considered new territories with civilisations not as old as the rest of the world. Even so, we find fascinating signs of varying cultures in both north and south America. Mesoamerica especially, is replete with different cultures that fascinated archaeologists - and us - ever since their discoveries. One of such…
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Podcast Episode 75 l The Greenwich Time Lady
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In late 19th-century and early 20th-century Britain, time itself was a commodity up for sale. In a world before smartphones and atomic clocks, a remarkable woman known as Ruth Belville sold time to the people of London.Por Saima Baig
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Podcast Episode 74 l The Berlin Wall Treehouse
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Osman Kalin, the man behind the Treehouse, was a Turkish worker who had come to Berlin in search of a better life. Undeterred by the restrictions and tensions of the divided city, he found solace in a small triangular traffic island nestled between the East and West Berlin border walls.Por Saima Baig
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Podcast Episode 73 l The Fall of the Berlin Wall
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The Berlin Wall Fell On November 9, 1989. As the cold war started to fizzle out, with revolutions and unrest all across the Eastern Bloc, the spokesman for the Communist Party of East Berlin was meant to announce a change in its relations with the west and a relaxation of the stringent border crossing laws. Instead, Günter Schabowski, a communist p…
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Podcast Episode 72 l The Doomsday Vault: A global Seed Vault
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Podcast on The Doomsday Vault: A global Seed Vault that is a repository for the world's food crop seeds.Por Saima Baig
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Podcast Episode 54 l Ada Lovelace, First Computer Programmer
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From the Archives: Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, was born on December 10, 1815. She was the daughter of the famous poet Lord Byron and his wife Anne Isabella Noel Byron. Ada Lovelace was an extremely brilliant woman, who excelled in mathematics, and today she is widely acknowledged as the first computer programmer.…
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The Astronomical Clock in Prague, known locally as the “Pražský orloj,” is one of the most famous and visually stunning astronomical clocks in the world. It is also the oldest functioning astronomical clock in the world. Located in the Old Town Square (Staroměstské náměstí) in Prague, Czech Republic, it is a remarkable piece of medieval engineering…
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Podcast Episode 66 l What are solstice and equinoxes?
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From the Archives: In the Podcast Episode 66, we are talking about what are solstice and equinoxes. How do they occur and what is the science.Por Saima Baig
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Podcast Episode 34 l Spacecraft OSIRIS REx Returns From Asteroid Bennu with Soil Samples
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From the Archives: NASA's Spacecraft OSIRIS REx Leaves Asteroid Bennu with Soil Samples after orbiting it for two years. It collected them in October 2020 & is expected to drop them on Earth in 2023 before continuing to another asteroid.Por Saima Baig
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Podcast Episode 55 l The Colours of Autumn and Falling of Leaves
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From the Archives: Why do leaves fall and what is the reason we can see the purples, reds, oranges, yellows, and browns in winter? We talk about the colours of autumn and the falling leaves that precede winter.Por Saima Baig
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Podcast Episode 70 l Sound of brainwaves listening to Pink Floyd
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Scientists used artificial intelligence or AI to guess what Pink Floyd’s ‘Another Brick in the Wall’ sounds like based on patterns of brain activity recorded while people were listening to it. This is extremely cool and you can listen to it here!Por Saima Baig
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Podcast Episode 69 l What exactly is a super blue moon?
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Stargazers were able to Witness Rare Blue Super Moon in August 2023. The next blue super moon will be in 2037, so this one was a very rare sighting. But what exactly is a super blue moon? And what is our fascination with our only satellite?Por Saima Baig
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Podcast Episode 68 l Meet this 2,000 year old computer
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Here is a new Podcast Episode about this 2,000 year old computer. It is the Antikythera Mechanism and it was found aboard a sunken Greek ship.Por Saima Baig
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Podcast Episode 39 l Eunice Newton Foote l Fantastic Women Series l Born This Day
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Eunice Newton Foote - The Woman Scientist Who Predicted Global Warming in 1856. She was a campaigner for women's rights. But she has been forgotten.Por Saima Baig
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Podcast Episode 19 | The Man Who Saw The Future – Nikola Tesla l Birthday
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Before there was Elon Musk and his Tesla, there was the man behind the name Nikola Tesla, the scientists who saw the future. He was born on July 10, 1856 and this is his birthday podcast.Por Saima Baig
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Podcast Episode 67 l Parthenogenesis in a crocodile, is it good for conservation?
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Parthenogenesis in a crocodile, is it good for conservation? The finding involves an American crocodile in solitude for 16 years at a zoo in Costa Rica.Por Saima Baig
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Podcast Episode 65 l How the first ever camera phone photo was sent
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The day was June 11 1997, engineer and entrepreneur Philippe Kahn was in a maternity ward at Sutter Maternity Center in Santa Cruz, California, awaiting the birth of his daughter. Hear the story in this podcast.Por Saima Baig
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Podcast Episode 64 l New strides in DNA knowledge
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This Podcast Episode discusses New strides in DNA knowledge regarding a new genetics library and that the lineage of Native Americans was Chinese.Por Saima Baig
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Podcast Episode 63 l Want to reduce your digital carbon footprint? Here’s how
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Want to reduce your digital carbon footprint? Here’s how to do it. Our digital life has an environmental and climate impact. We need to reduce it.Por Saima Baig
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On May 18, 1804, a young man declared himself the Emperor of France. His campaigns split the European continent and reduced in half a country we hardly remember: Prussia. His name was Napoleon Bonaparte.Por Saima Baig
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Podcast Episode 61 l The Ancient Empire of the Hittites
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Podcast Episode: The Ancient Empire of the Hittites, who ruled over Anatolia in modern day Turkey between the 18th and 12th century BC.Por Saima Baig
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