π§ How Steam Power Remade the World
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John Darwin joined me on the podcast to discuss how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world order.
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π§ How the British Prepared for Nuclea...
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π§ FORENSICS: DNA
The birth of DNA fingerprinting will forever be tied to Leicester, England. It was invented in a lab in the cityβs university by Alec Jeffreys in 1984. And it was in the outskirts of the city that it was first used to catch a murderer β Colin Pitchfork who raped and killed the young girls Lynda M...
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π§ How the Earth Shaped Human History
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