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第2756期:How can restaurants earn a Michelin star?
Episode 1
What do rubber tyres have to do with delicious food? The answer lies in the story of the Michelin brothers. French inventors Edouard and Andre Michel…
11 months, 1 week ago
第2755期:£50m renovation for historic Kew glass house
Episode 1
Kew's Palm House is a wonder of the Victorian age. When it opened in 1848, it was the largest glass house ever constructed. But the hot and humid con…
11 months, 1 week ago
第2754期:Can we trust technology in sport?
Episode 1
Use of technology in sports is supposed to be able to provide accurate and instant feedback, with better decision-making and reduced errors compared …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
第2753期:The hidden logic of human harmony(5)
Episode 2
The logic of common knowledge and social relationships explains why we all deplore the hypocrisy and white lies and role playing of everyday social i…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
第2752期:The hidden logic of human harmony(4)
Episode 1
Or laughter, where an unignorable noise can expose the common assumptions among everyone who gets the joke.或者是笑声，那种无法忽视的声音能够揭示所有明白这个笑话的人之间的共同假设。
Conve…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
第2751期:The hidden logic of human harmony(3)
Episode 2
This can set off cycles of exuberant recursive mentalizing, as investors desperately search for focal points, each one buying an investment not becau…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
第2750期:The hidden logic of human harmony(2)
Episode 3
At larger scales, common salience or focal points and conventions, drive a lot of our legal and financial coordination. An everyday example is drivin…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
第2749期:The hidden logic of human harmony(1)
Episode 1
When the little boy said the emperor was naked, he wasn't telling them anything they didn't already know. But he added to their knowledge nonetheless…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
第2748期:Ancient Egyptian history may be rewritten by DNA bone
Episode 2
Archaeological evidence indicates that ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia may have been in contact at least 10,000 years ago, when people in Mesopotamia b…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
第2747期:What should you do if you cut off your finger?(2)
Episode 3
Surprisingly, severed tissues can survive for a few hours without these resources. And keeping them cool further slows the rate of tissue death, gene…
11 months, 3 weeks ago