Angela Saini
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229 appearances
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first heard Jan 2012
last heard Jul 2012
Angela Saini’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The authors argue that if every country had the same body mass index distribution as there, the weight of the world would increase by 58 million tonnes, the equivalent of nearly a billion averagely sized adults.
So, are they right?
Could the rest of the world go down the same road as the US?
It's a theory that's certainly got lots of headlines around the world.
Well, according to Nick Massey-Taylor, a professor of human population biology and health at Cambridge University, the US is not necessarily a good model for where we're heading.
So why have they cherry-picked the worst-case scenario?
David Prieto-Marino is a lecturer in the Department of Medical Statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and one of the scientists who wrote this paper.
Are you sure you're not scaremongering here by telling everybody that we're tipping the scales too much?
Although you did pick out the worst-case scenario in picking out the U.S., didn't you?
But as somebody who's read the report fully, yes, Japan is there, but in the conclusion, it's just the U.S.
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That was David Prietau-Marino from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Now, from overweight to welterweight, June 9th saw a bout in Las Vegas between Filipino Manny Pacquiao, widely regarded as one of the best boxers in the world, and American Timothy Bradley.
In the fight, Manny Pacquiao seemed to be on top, but the judges declared Bradley the winner.
It was a highly controversial decision, and it prompted this email from one more or less listener in Kampala, who wanted to know more about the statistics of the punch count.
Andrew, you've asked the right people.
We may not know much about boxing, but when it comes to a contest of numbers, we more or less don't pull our punches.
We've gone all the way to Bob Canobio, the founder of CompuBox, which analyses boxing statistics.
He was there on the night of the fight, ringside no less, counting every punch.
And, as he explains, the real drama started when the match finished.
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