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Hello and welcome to No Such Thing As The News, coming to you from up | 0:00:13 | 0:00:18 | |
the creek in Greenwich, London. I am Dan Schreiber with Anna Ptaszynski, | 0:00:19 | 0:00:22 | |
Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin. Each week we will take a | 0:00:23 | 0:00:32 | |
look at the most interesting things we have found in the news of the | 0:00:33 | 0:00:37 | |
last seven days. We are not here to scare you, make you angry, tell you | 0:00:38 | 0:00:41 | |
what to think, give opinions on Brexit, but we might tell you that | 0:00:42 | 0:00:47 | |
according to a recent survey 46% of people in Japan hide when someone | 0:00:48 | 0:00:51 | |
rings their doorbell. Let's begin, starting with fact number one, and | 0:00:52 | 0:00:57 | |
that is Andrew Hunter Murray. The House of Commons has a special | 0:00:58 | 0:01:00 | |
security measure designed to stop the gunpowder plot from ever | 0:01:01 | 0:01:06 | |
happening again. What happens is before the Queen's Speech, which | 0:01:07 | 0:01:09 | |
happened on Wednesday, there is a ceremony where the Yeoman of the | 0:01:10 | 0:01:14 | |
guard, a special military body, search the cellars of the House of | 0:01:15 | 0:01:21 | |
Commons for gunpowder, looking with candlelight and tonnes. Which, if | 0:01:22 | 0:01:27 | |
you are looking for gunpowder... I will show you quickly what they look | 0:01:28 | 0:01:32 | |
like. These are the Yeomen of the Guard. They have their lanterns. | 0:01:33 | 0:01:44 | |
This is what it's protecting... The last line of defence. They look | 0:01:45 | 0:01:48 | |
around, don't find any and they say it is fine. I should point out the | 0:01:49 | 0:01:55 | |
Metropolitan Police conduct a more modern search. I wondered if they | 0:01:56 | 0:01:59 | |
might find some dummy gunpowder that a security firm had left. The other | 0:02:00 | 0:02:05 | |
thing about the Queen's Speech is Black Rod, most of us have heard of. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:10 | |
It is very hard to search for him on the internet! Basically, he is a | 0:02:11 | 0:02:17 | |
parliamentary official, technically called the gentleman Usher of the | 0:02:18 | 0:02:21 | |
Black Rod, because he carries a black staff. The current guy in | 0:02:22 | 0:02:25 | |
office is called David Leakey. He has the right to detain people in | 0:02:26 | 0:02:27 | |
the houses of parliament, specifically in the House of Lords. | 0:02:28 | 0:02:34 | |
I can detain people in my house. He said, I normally hand them straight | 0:02:35 | 0:02:38 | |
over to the police. There was a thing in the way he said "Normally". | 0:02:39 | 0:02:45 | |
Sometimes I rough them up. A lot of places in the news went with the | 0:02:46 | 0:02:49 | |
fact that the Queen took the lift for the first time. Not for the | 0:02:50 | 0:02:55 | |
first time in her life. Normally she goes up the stairs into Parliament | 0:02:56 | 0:02:59 | |
but this time she got the lift because her knees are bad. Another | 0:03:00 | 0:03:03 | |
time she took the lift, she wanted to go down one floor and her and | 0:03:04 | 0:03:06 | |
Prince Philip pressed the wrong button and went up one floor. They | 0:03:07 | 0:03:10 | |
got to the next floor and there was a peer from the House of Lords | 0:03:11 | 0:03:14 | |
opened the door and the Queen and Prince Philip were in front of him. | 0:03:15 | 0:03:19 | |
They went... They pressed the button and instead of going back down they | 0:03:20 | 0:03:22 | |
went up another floor and ended up in the Parliamentary archives, OK. | 0:03:23 | 0:03:28 | |
They pressed the button to go back to the bottom floor and ended up | 0:03:29 | 0:03:31 | |
exactly where they started and just walked down the stairs anyway. That | 0:03:32 | 0:03:38 | |
could be a heart-warming children's story. The other thing that happens | 0:03:39 | 0:03:43 | |
during the Queen 's speech is that the palace takes a hostage MP, which | 0:03:44 | 0:03:47 | |
is another very old-fashioned tradition. This year it was | 0:03:48 | 0:03:53 | |
ex-Housing Minister Chris Hopkins, who just went to Buckingham Palace | 0:03:54 | 0:03:57 | |
for the speech. This is supposedly in case Parliament decides they will | 0:03:58 | 0:04:01 | |
keep the Queen, and then at least Buckingham Palace can say, we have | 0:04:02 | 0:04:08 | |
the ex-housing minister here. I read an article in the Daily Mail and | 0:04:09 | 0:04:13 | |
they were talking about this guy who was taken hostage. Prince Philip | 0:04:14 | 0:04:16 | |
used to enjoy reminding the MP that if Prince Philip and the Queen never | 0:04:17 | 0:04:21 | |
came back, he would have his head chopped off. But the Queen said, | 0:04:22 | 0:04:25 | |
actually, it is nothing to do with you, it is only if I don't come | 0:04:26 | 0:04:29 | |
back. Finally, Prince Philip got very angry with that and he doesn't | 0:04:30 | 0:04:33 | |
do the joke any more. Wouldn't it be awful if they chopped off his head | 0:04:34 | 0:04:37 | |
and it turned out that the Queen and Prince Philip had just been in a | 0:04:38 | 0:04:39 | |
lift? APPLAUSE | 0:04:40 | 0:04:44 | |
Speaking of Prince Philip getting jealous of the Queen, I was looking | 0:04:45 | 0:04:49 | |
into the only other Queen in the world at the moment, Queen Margaret | 0:04:50 | 0:04:55 | |
of Denmark. Her husband has just resigned his position because he | 0:04:56 | 0:05:00 | |
thinks it is not gender equal. So he has resigned in a strop, earlier | 0:05:01 | 0:05:06 | |
this year, couple of months ago. He said all of the Queens in the world | 0:05:07 | 0:05:10 | |
have made their husband King consort, why should I be under my | 0:05:11 | 0:05:14 | |
wife? I will never accept it, it makes me angry that I'm subjected to | 0:05:15 | 0:05:18 | |
discrimination. He has been campaigning to be called King for | 0:05:19 | 0:05:22 | |
many years, so he has gone off in a strop. That is a marriage on some | 0:05:23 | 0:05:29 | |
rocks. Interesting he had to say, why should I be under my wife! I was | 0:05:30 | 0:05:34 | |
looking at other parliaments around the world. If possible, even more | 0:05:35 | 0:05:39 | |
exciting stuff is happening elsewhere. One of the more exciting | 0:05:40 | 0:05:47 | |
ones is the Ukrainian one. There are brawls that break-out constantly in | 0:05:48 | 0:05:51 | |
the Ukrainian parliament. There is a particularly bizarre one in December | 0:05:52 | 0:05:57 | |
last year where the Ukrainian Prime Minister was dragged from his podium | 0:05:58 | 0:06:00 | |
as he was about to give a speech. The person who was going to drag him | 0:06:01 | 0:06:05 | |
from the podium in protest, another MP, approached holding a bouquet of | 0:06:06 | 0:06:09 | |
roses, so there was a confused moment where he thought, that is | 0:06:10 | 0:06:14 | |
nice, he is bringing me roses. He takes them, and then the guy grabs | 0:06:15 | 0:06:18 | |
him and start dragging him from the podium. It was an ignominious scene. | 0:06:19 | 0:06:23 | |
And then the guy who is dragging him gets distracted by a brawl to his | 0:06:24 | 0:06:28 | |
left. He puts the Prime Minister down, and you see the Prime Minister | 0:06:29 | 0:06:32 | |
holding these roses looking at these MPs fighting and thinking, what on | 0:06:33 | 0:06:40 | |
earth are we supposed to do? Didn't the Canadian Prime Minister get in | 0:06:41 | 0:06:47 | |
trouble for elbowing somebody? So the Prime Minister is Justin | 0:06:48 | 0:06:51 | |
Trudeau, of Canada. I think he apologised. There was a brawl and he | 0:06:52 | 0:06:57 | |
turned round and elbowed someone in the chest. He was trying to Usher | 0:06:58 | 0:07:01 | |
and MP to his seat and he did not see a lady behind him. It was a | 0:07:02 | 0:07:06 | |
little nick of the elbow, it looked like. I am not her and I did not | 0:07:07 | 0:07:09 | |
feel it. She had to leave the house for a while to recover and her | 0:07:10 | 0:07:14 | |
colleague, a fellow MP said, young women in this space need to feel | 0:07:15 | 0:07:19 | |
safe to come here and to work here. I am as feminist as the next person, | 0:07:20 | 0:07:23 | |
but I am not sure that is a massive gender issue that he accidentally | 0:07:24 | 0:07:30 | |
backed into a woman. I have a great fact about Canadian politics. | 0:07:31 | 0:07:33 | |
Canadian politician Vicki Huntington received a round of applause after | 0:07:34 | 0:07:37 | |
parliament rejected her appeal asking to ban rounds of applause. | 0:07:38 | 0:07:38 | |
APPLAUSE We will send that over to her. We | 0:07:39 | 0:07:54 | |
need to move on, so anything? Apparently one of the Queen's rounds | 0:07:55 | 0:07:57 | |
is too heavy to wear all the time. The Imperial State Crown is the same | 0:07:58 | 0:08:07 | |
weight as the smallest ever cat, who was called Tinker toy, or the same | 0:08:08 | 0:08:11 | |
weight as a human brain. If you can imagine wearing a brain or a small | 0:08:12 | 0:08:14 | |
cat on your head, that is what it is like to be Queen. Time for fact | 0:08:15 | 0:08:24 | |
number two. My fact is that the International Space Station has | 0:08:25 | 0:08:29 | |
quadruple glazed windows. This is actually, I love it because it is | 0:08:30 | 0:08:34 | |
quite a mundane thing to find out about the windows of the | 0:08:35 | 0:08:35 | |
International Space Station. The reason we know it this week is | 0:08:36 | 0:08:39 | |
because of Tim Peake, who tweeted a picture of one of the windows. This | 0:08:40 | 0:08:44 | |
is it, and this is a chip that has appeared in the window because it | 0:08:45 | 0:08:49 | |
has been hit by a bit of debris. Fortunately, the thing that hit it | 0:08:50 | 0:08:52 | |
was only the size of a flick of paint. A fleck of paint, and that is | 0:08:53 | 0:08:58 | |
the damage because things are travelling at such speed in space. | 0:08:59 | 0:09:02 | |
Apparently, if the International Space Station was hit on that window | 0:09:03 | 0:09:06 | |
by something the size of a pen lid, there would be enough energy for it | 0:09:07 | 0:09:10 | |
to be the equivalent of a hand grenade, so it would deep rash rise | 0:09:11 | 0:09:14 | |
and we would lose potentially all of the International Space Station. I | 0:09:15 | 0:09:19 | |
read that what caused the chip might have been a piece of debris a feud | 0:09:20 | 0:09:24 | |
thousand is of a millimetre. I tried to find out what else is that size, | 0:09:25 | 0:09:39 | |
so the head of a sperm is five thousandths of a millimetre. Which | 0:09:40 | 0:09:46 | |
is why Selt pleasuring is banned. I do think they put it out into space. | 0:09:47 | 0:09:52 | |
Wind down the window, four times for each glazing. They did used to | 0:09:53 | 0:10:04 | |
reject theses. Bars all dreamt would have a poo and it would come back at | 0:10:05 | 0:10:12 | |
the ship and take it out. How many ships were lost? It has been quite a | 0:10:13 | 0:10:24 | |
big week generally for the ISS. Not only did we see this picture from | 0:10:25 | 0:10:28 | |
Tim Peake with the chip in the window, but also the Monday just | 0:10:29 | 0:10:33 | |
gone was the hundred thousandth orbit that the ISS has made. While | 0:10:34 | 0:10:38 | |
the International Space Station was doing that orbit, do you know what | 0:10:39 | 0:10:44 | |
they were doing on board? Partying, having sex, going mental for 45 | 0:10:45 | 0:10:49 | |
minutes. Almost. They were testing the grip strength of mice. How do | 0:10:50 | 0:10:58 | |
you do that? In my head, it is because it is going around the world | 0:10:59 | 0:11:04 | |
and the mice are going... You have a little machine and a net on it and | 0:11:05 | 0:11:09 | |
you put the mouse on the net and it holds on and then you start pulling. | 0:11:10 | 0:11:14 | |
And you keep pulling until it lets go, and that is how strong its grip | 0:11:15 | 0:11:19 | |
is. The reason they are doing that is because they want to see how | 0:11:20 | 0:11:25 | |
muscles atrophy in space. It is one of those things you never think to | 0:11:26 | 0:11:28 | |
look into but the day-to-day mundane life of an astronaut living in | 0:11:29 | 0:11:32 | |
space. Did you know there are no pillows in space? You would not need | 0:11:33 | 0:11:40 | |
to rest your head. I figured you would have won against a wall, at | 0:11:41 | 0:11:43 | |
least. But you know when we turn around looking for the best position | 0:11:44 | 0:11:49 | |
in bed, space is the best position. You just hang there. They also have | 0:11:50 | 0:11:54 | |
a lot of instruments. Chris Hadfield played a song by David Bowie on | 0:11:55 | 0:12:00 | |
guitar. They also have a didgeridoo. I have not seen any footage of | 0:12:01 | 0:12:03 | |
anyone attempting a song. I do not know why it is there. Do you know | 0:12:04 | 0:12:09 | |
how they do laundry on the International Space Station? They | 0:12:10 | 0:12:13 | |
don't. They throw away their clothes every few weeks and burn them up | 0:12:14 | 0:12:16 | |
into the atmosphere because there is no good way of washing clothes. | 0:12:17 | 0:12:22 | |
Water is a valuable, 30 on the ISS. The way they recycle water is | 0:12:23 | 0:12:29 | |
incredible. They recycle 3.6 gallons of water every day. They recycle | 0:12:30 | 0:12:33 | |
their own your income and also the euro and of their lab rats, any | 0:12:34 | 0:12:38 | |
animals they have on there. The majority of water they drink and | 0:12:39 | 0:12:42 | |
wash with is recycled in that way, but it still is to be topped up with | 0:12:43 | 0:12:49 | |
extra water once in awhile. One tech magazine worked out the cost of the | 0:12:50 | 0:12:53 | |
average bottle of water on the ISS. I worked out that it would buy you | 0:12:54 | 0:12:59 | |
1400 pints of beer in London. ?7,000 for one bottle of water. The thing | 0:13:00 | 0:13:06 | |
with water on the International Space Station, it is inevitable that | 0:13:07 | 0:13:09 | |
American astronauts will have consumed Russian P and Russian | 0:13:10 | 0:13:15 | |
astronauts will have consumed American P. Going back to the grip | 0:13:16 | 0:13:22 | |
of mice, the latest consignment of experimental dear to the | 0:13:23 | 0:13:24 | |
International Space Station was in March this year and they sent gecko | 0:13:25 | 0:13:28 | |
pads. They have been doing experiments on earth into what makes | 0:13:29 | 0:13:32 | |
a gecko stick to a wall, and they have sent these pads to space to | 0:13:33 | 0:13:36 | |
help them experiment. I sometimes think if you are on the ISS, it | 0:13:37 | 0:13:40 | |
reminds me of going to a shop to get milk and then your friend says, can | 0:13:41 | 0:13:46 | |
you get this, and that and that. They deliver 1000 scientific | 0:13:47 | 0:13:49 | |
experiments and then say, would you mind testing gecko pads? Learn the | 0:13:50 | 0:13:53 | |
didgeridoos! I was thinking of what they could | 0:13:54 | 0:14:01 | |
make the windows out of the make them better. This week they have | 0:14:02 | 0:14:05 | |
made see-through wood. It is amazing. I have a picture here. You | 0:14:06 | 0:14:12 | |
will not be able to see it. A slight flaw. You can tell at his word | 0:14:13 | 0:14:18 | |
because it has that word written on it. -- it is wood. It's amazing, | 0:14:19 | 0:14:30 | |
they put chemicals in it which gets rid of the stuff that gives a | 0:14:31 | 0:14:33 | |
colour. They have only done five inches five" but they think that in | 0:14:34 | 0:14:36 | |
future we might be able to make windows out of this because class is | 0:14:37 | 0:14:41 | |
the kind of thing that shatters easily but Wood is a better | 0:14:42 | 0:14:46 | |
substance. Could you have invisible tables? That is the extent of my | 0:14:47 | 0:14:51 | |
imagination. What am I sitting behind? We could get invisible | 0:14:52 | 0:14:59 | |
trees, which are made out of wood. A whole forest but now one can see. | 0:15:00 | 0:15:04 | |
You would spend your entire walk through a forest going, oh, what is | 0:15:05 | 0:15:12 | |
that?! I can see the word order the trees. -- I cannot see the wood or | 0:15:13 | 0:15:20 | |
the trees. Halfway through, time to look at the stories that you have | 0:15:21 | 0:15:25 | |
sent into us. What have you got? This was tweeted from Katie Gibson | 0:15:26 | 0:15:30 | |
and the fact is that a person called Pope McCorkle the third has won the | 0:15:31 | 0:15:36 | |
2016 name of the year competition. This is a real person. A public | 0:15:37 | 0:15:42 | |
policy Professor at Duke University. I remember that one because I really | 0:15:43 | 0:15:49 | |
wanted sweet orifice to win. Sweet Orifice is a real person who | 0:15:50 | 0:15:55 | |
unbelievably did not win. Another finalist was called Tillman | 0:15:56 | 0:16:03 | |
Buttersack. We got this one from Ninja. Zoo It is from Northern | 0:16:04 | 0:16:08 | |
Territory news. Firemen had to be called to an Australian hospital | 0:16:09 | 0:16:11 | |
after a man got his penis stuck in a spanner. They used a tiny angle | 0:16:12 | 0:16:21 | |
grinder to cut the spanner away. Please could you leave the word tiny | 0:16:22 | 0:16:30 | |
out of the press release. Please. People may have seen this story, it | 0:16:31 | 0:16:34 | |
but it is so good. This was sent in from Chris Emerson, and it is from | 0:16:35 | 0:16:38 | |
the Independent and it is the fact that students from the University of | 0:16:39 | 0:16:41 | |
East Anglia have been told that they cannot throw mortar boards at their | 0:16:42 | 0:16:45 | |
graduation but they can mind that the action and have the hats. | 0:16:46 | 0:16:55 | |
Shocked in for an extra ?8. -- mime the action. One guy going like that | 0:16:56 | 0:16:59 | |
and the girl next are going, I cannot afford that. Time to move | 0:17:00 | 0:17:04 | |
onto Anna Ptaszynski. My fact is that according to the former head of | 0:17:05 | 0:17:08 | |
the Russian anti-doping laboratory, male athletes take the drugs with | 0:17:09 | 0:17:12 | |
whiskey while female athletes take them with a martini. So these are | 0:17:13 | 0:17:19 | |
the revelations came out in the New York Times interview last week. And | 0:17:20 | 0:17:24 | |
this was the former head of the Russian anti-doping agency, Dr Bonar | 0:17:25 | 0:17:29 | |
Janco, and he talked about how he had been systematically allowing | 0:17:30 | 0:17:35 | |
athletes to dope and concealing it. And he said the reason you include | 0:17:36 | 0:17:39 | |
alcohol in the samples was to increase the absorption time and | 0:17:40 | 0:17:44 | |
shot in the absorption window. I am sure everyone will understand | 0:17:45 | 0:17:48 | |
exactly why alcohol does that, so you will not need the details. Would | 0:17:49 | 0:17:53 | |
you like your martini shaken, stirred or full of drugs? So who is | 0:17:54 | 0:18:04 | |
this guy? This guy was officially responsible during the Soviet | 0:18:05 | 0:18:06 | |
Olympics for checking that athletes were not doping, and he has given | 0:18:07 | 0:18:12 | |
this interview which reads like an incredibly good John le Carre novel. | 0:18:13 | 0:18:15 | |
It was made clear to him that he would have to help athletes conceal | 0:18:16 | 0:18:19 | |
their doping according to this interview. So he said that at night | 0:18:20 | 0:18:24 | |
he had received a signal that said that the urinal was ready and he | 0:18:25 | 0:18:30 | |
would go into room 124, officially the storage space where they do | 0:18:31 | 0:18:33 | |
stuff they are not supposed to be doing and he would have the you're | 0:18:34 | 0:18:37 | |
in of the athletes that he had taken. And he would go to a little | 0:18:38 | 0:18:42 | |
hole in the wall at third level, and he would slip that through the hole | 0:18:43 | 0:18:46 | |
in the wall and one of his colleagues on the other night would | 0:18:47 | 0:18:49 | |
slip in a clean sample that they had taken a few months earlier, and he | 0:18:50 | 0:18:53 | |
would take that and replace it. Exciting stuff. You can see why he | 0:18:54 | 0:18:59 | |
was drawn to it. And the other thing, they have announced that they | 0:19:00 | 0:19:03 | |
have had a massive drugs haul, but not recently. This is from the | 0:19:04 | 0:19:08 | |
Beijing games. They have announced that they have 31 athletes from 12 | 0:19:09 | 0:19:12 | |
different countries, and this is because they have developed new | 0:19:13 | 0:19:18 | |
tests but they still have the you're in samples. There are thousands of | 0:19:19 | 0:19:28 | |
bottles of athletes' wee. This is an advert for stalkers out there. Maria | 0:19:29 | 0:19:34 | |
Sharapova's 8-year-old wee exists out there. Drag it down. -- track it | 0:19:35 | 0:19:43 | |
down. That is the problem. I read an article that said that the only | 0:19:44 | 0:19:47 | |
athletes that we catch are the ones that are doing things that are not | 0:19:48 | 0:19:51 | |
that good because anyone who is doing anything any good, we are not | 0:19:52 | 0:19:56 | |
ready to catch them yet. And that is why we are only now going through | 0:19:57 | 0:19:59 | |
the Beijing guys and I think they are about to test a load of people | 0:20:00 | 0:20:04 | |
from London 2012. I remember reading a blog a while ago about the East | 0:20:05 | 0:20:08 | |
Germans and West Germans and we knew for a while that the East Germans | 0:20:09 | 0:20:11 | |
were doping but it turned out that the West Germans were doping as well | 0:20:12 | 0:20:15 | |
the whole time, doing really weird stuff. One of the things, they would | 0:20:16 | 0:20:19 | |
pump air into the colon is of swimmers to make them more buoyant. | 0:20:20 | 0:20:28 | |
-- colons. These things only came out in the 21st century. That is a | 0:20:29 | 0:20:39 | |
long time for it to be in there! Can we do a few things on drugs? | 0:20:40 | 0:20:45 | |
Yes! Some facts about drugs. They have just, Colombia has just had its | 0:20:46 | 0:20:51 | |
biggest ever drug haul, absolutely massive, tonnes of drugs. And I | 0:20:52 | 0:20:55 | |
worked out that it was eight times, I think. I think it was cocaine. | 0:20:56 | 0:21:01 | |
Eight tonnes of cocaine. I worked out that would be enough to get | 0:21:02 | 0:21:08 | |
every elephant on Earth- is the or the entire population of Bulgaria, | 0:21:09 | 0:21:14 | |
or the entire population of Wales, very, very high. And have a picture | 0:21:15 | 0:21:23 | |
which? These drugs were worth ?240 million. -- have they picked which. | 0:21:24 | 0:21:29 | |
That could buy you the entire Tottenham squad. We need to move on, | 0:21:30 | 0:21:33 | |
anything before that? I can tell you how use lignite useless sniffer jobs | 0:21:34 | 0:21:40 | |
-- how useless sniffer dogs are at finding drugs? From personal | 0:21:41 | 0:21:47 | |
experience? I was Colombia. Congratulations on buying Tottenham | 0:21:48 | 0:21:53 | |
Hotspur. This came out this week that sniffer dogs have been trained | 0:21:54 | 0:21:56 | |
at Manchester airport over the past couple of years to detect various | 0:21:57 | 0:22:02 | |
banned substances. Primarily, drugs. That was a high priority. And it | 0:22:03 | 0:22:06 | |
turns out that the dogs made multiple accurate detections but | 0:22:07 | 0:22:08 | |
most were of small amounts of cheese or sausages, posing minimal risk to | 0:22:09 | 0:22:16 | |
the UK public health. They managed to detect zero drugs. OK, time for | 0:22:17 | 0:22:21 | |
our final fact of the show. James Harkin? My fact is that scientists | 0:22:22 | 0:22:33 | |
have turned water into wine. Not traditionally the preserve of the | 0:22:34 | 0:22:36 | |
science. Much more of a religious thing. This is an article I read in | 0:22:37 | 0:22:43 | |
new scientist this week two scientists who work in a food lab in | 0:22:44 | 0:22:47 | |
San Francisco. And they saw a wine that they could not afford and they | 0:22:48 | 0:22:50 | |
thought, I really want to whine like that. And they thought, well, we | 0:22:51 | 0:22:54 | |
have loads of chemicals so why not make it? So they got a load of water | 0:22:55 | 0:22:58 | |
and ethanol and flavourings and a few other things and they made | 0:22:59 | 0:23:03 | |
something that passes as wine. But this could be the future. We will | 0:23:04 | 0:23:08 | |
all be drinking wine that is not made out of grapes. That is amazing | 0:23:09 | 0:23:11 | |
although putting a bunch of chemicals together into a drink | 0:23:12 | 0:23:16 | |
sounds like the kind of thing that guests athletes into trouble. And is | 0:23:17 | 0:23:21 | |
it good, do they know? Sometimes, but the original ones were not so | 0:23:22 | 0:23:23 | |
good. They put a different flavours in. They put in a chemical that | 0:23:24 | 0:23:33 | |
tasted like pineapple, grape juice, line, and butter. And apparently one | 0:23:34 | 0:23:37 | |
of the first attempts just tasted like melted butter. But it was | 0:23:38 | 0:23:42 | |
alcoholic melted butter, so... But now they have made one that tastes a | 0:23:43 | 0:23:47 | |
bit like a particular Italian wine. In other science news, scientists | 0:23:48 | 0:23:54 | |
performing miracles, scientists have this week invented in magnet wrapped | 0:23:55 | 0:23:58 | |
in pig intestines. It is a pig intestines to make it more palatable | 0:23:59 | 0:24:06 | |
to swallow map so it goes into your stomach, and then the intestinal | 0:24:07 | 0:24:09 | |
unravels and the magnet attracts magnetic materials, and this is to | 0:24:10 | 0:24:13 | |
deal with the 3500 batteries swallowed by children every year in | 0:24:14 | 0:24:17 | |
the US alone. The magnet will attach onto that and drag it down out of | 0:24:18 | 0:24:20 | |
your system and into the toilet bowl. I was looking into science | 0:24:21 | 0:24:25 | |
news at the weekend and something came up which I really like. Google | 0:24:26 | 0:24:30 | |
have just patented a new invention. This is it. Basically they have | 0:24:31 | 0:24:36 | |
invented a sticky thing to put on the front of the that when you get | 0:24:37 | 0:24:41 | |
hit by a car, rather than its throwing you across the road, you | 0:24:42 | 0:24:45 | |
just stick to the front. And you know trouble with the car. It does | 0:24:46 | 0:24:50 | |
not seem like much of an improvement. -- and you now travel | 0:24:51 | 0:24:54 | |
with the car. If that car hits another car, then that sticks to | 0:24:55 | 0:25:00 | |
you. You are sandwiched between the cars. And if someone hits the front | 0:25:01 | 0:25:05 | |
of your car and your vision is obstructed because there is someone | 0:25:06 | 0:25:09 | |
stuck to your car, you are almost more likely to hit another car. Who | 0:25:10 | 0:25:14 | |
thought of this?! I think the idea is that they do not want you to just | 0:25:15 | 0:25:20 | |
keep going. However, it is a great way to get to the hospital quickly. | 0:25:21 | 0:25:26 | |
Tonnes of cars coming with humans attached! Sirree, I need you to put | 0:25:27 | 0:25:36 | |
a servicing for the car. -- Siri. I saw this bait and because it was in | 0:25:37 | 0:25:41 | |
the news. I found a load of other patents that Google has brought out | 0:25:42 | 0:25:46 | |
in the last couple of years. A system that takes you on a route | 0:25:47 | 0:25:50 | |
home so that you do not bump into anyone you know. Apparently you are | 0:25:51 | 0:25:53 | |
going to smell really bad and you were thinking, I don't want to bump | 0:25:54 | 0:25:57 | |
into anyone, so it takes you away from people. And candy system be | 0:25:58 | 0:26:03 | |
broadened to all circumstances? We should wrap up very soon. -- can the | 0:26:04 | 0:26:09 | |
system. I have one scientific story about penises. I want to apologise | 0:26:10 | 0:26:14 | |
in advance. There has been a study done by the Australian national | 0:26:15 | 0:26:17 | |
university, testing the theory that male fish with bigger genitals are | 0:26:18 | 0:26:21 | |
more attractive. The way they did this was to selected bleep breed | 0:26:22 | 0:26:26 | |
mosquito fish over eight generations to have either massive or tiny | 0:26:27 | 0:26:33 | |
genitals. -- selectively breed. By the way, the result of the study was | 0:26:34 | 0:26:36 | |
that for mosquito fish anyway, females do not care and it does not | 0:26:37 | 0:26:41 | |
affect things. I read a version of that story in the Daily Mail and | 0:26:42 | 0:26:45 | |
they said that if the same ratio of penis to fish length was applied to | 0:26:46 | 0:26:50 | |
humans, it would been that the average 5'9" British man's penis | 0:26:51 | 0:26:56 | |
would be slightly smaller than the average Scottish salmon. We're going | 0:26:57 | 0:27:07 | |
to need a bigger spanner! OK. That's it. Just time to share with you four | 0:27:08 | 0:27:12 | |
stories that we did not have time to cover. My story is from the | 0:27:13 | 0:27:16 | |
Manchester evening news. A man is camping out in a Macdonald car park | 0:27:17 | 0:27:22 | |
in in protests to not being allowed to use the drive through in his | 0:27:23 | 0:27:25 | |
horse-drawn caravan. Mine is from the daily Telegraph. It is that | 0:27:26 | 0:27:31 | |
research at Tel Aviv University and MIT has shown that half the people | 0:27:32 | 0:27:33 | |
you consider friends do not actually like you. Mine is from BBC News. | 0:27:34 | 0:27:42 | |
Uzbekistan, due to a shortage of cash in the country's banks, | 0:27:43 | 0:27:47 | |
teachers have been paid half as much as they are usually paid, and worse | 0:27:48 | 0:27:51 | |
still, they were paid entirely in chickens. Anna? This is from The | 0:27:52 | 0:27:59 | |
Times. The French Finance Minister has admitted behaving | 0:28:00 | 0:28:02 | |
inappropriately towards a female journalist, but has denied twining | 0:28:03 | 0:28:14 | |
her knickers. -- twanging. And lastly, broadcasting house, Jane | 0:28:15 | 0:28:20 | |
Hill. That is all from Andy, James, Hannah and me. We will be back again | 0:28:21 | 0:28:29 | |
next week, with a bunch more facts. See you then. Goodbye. | 0:28:30 | 0:28:35 |