2023 Year-End Extravaganza, Part 1
Itâs Part 1 of CrowdScienceâs year-end extravaganza! Weâve reconnecting with some of our favourite guests and bringing out a bumper box of bonus questions.
Welcome to Part 1 of CrowdScienceâs year-end extravaganza! Itâs an extra-festive episode this week. For those who celebrate it, Christmas is the perfect time to pause and look back at the year just gone. Here on CrowdScience weâve had a great 2023: we answered dozens of listener questions, ranging from climbing plants and ostriches to panic attacks and the weight of the internet.
This week presenter Anand Jagatia magically appears with a Santaâs sack full of special features. Weâre catching up with some of our favourite guests from the past year and answering some of the extra questions that we never got the chance to cover.
First up we hear from presenter Tim Clare who we first heard in the episode âWhy do some people have panic attacks?â He takes Anand through his new book â it's about board games: why we play them, how theyâve existed throughout history and what heâs learned about himself in the process of writing it.
Then itâs time for a bonus question. The CrowdScience team often get questions about noise pollution. One listener got in touch to ask whether the transition to electric vehicles will reduce this noise. Acoustic scientist Kurt Fristrup and epidemiologist Erica Walker give their perspectives on this question, and how sound and noise can sometimes be very different things. CrowdScience listener Marie - who originally starred in an episode about why she doesnât have any sense of time - returns. Since the programme she has been speaking to psychologists about her problem and tells Anand what more sheâs learnt.
We received another bonus question after a show in 2023 about AI: why canât artificial intelligence be designed to explain itâs decisions? Producer Phil returns to data scientist Briana Brownell from the original episode to ask her why AI decision making is so very complex.
Finally, as itâs the season for holiday music, weâre asking what makes the genre so distinctive? Composer Jane Watkins - who originally created the sound of a panic attack for a CrowdScience episode - brings in her musical keyboard to demonstrate what makes a Christmas song so specifically âa Christmas songâ.
Itâs all topped-off with the premiere of a happy and heart-warming song performed by the CrowdScience Christmas Choir â a little gift for our loyal listeners.
Presenter: Anand Jagatia
Producer: Phil Sansom
Editor: Richard Collings
Production Co-ordinator: Jonathan Harris
Studio Managers: Tim Heffer and Cath McGhee
Featuring:
Tim Clare, author/poet/podcaster
Dr. Kurt Fristrup, acoustic scientist, Colorado State University
Prof. Erica Walker, RGSS Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health
Marie Bergholtz
Briana Brownell, data scientist
Jane Watkins, composer
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