Benjamin Thompson
speaker
746 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2 Sep
Benjamin Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 10 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 5.
Appearances
Hard to know.
But it's an interesting story because it does shine a light on this phenomenon, this activity that is so potentially so universal, but quite poorly understood.
This is something that would have to be uncovered, I suppose.
Well, if that story has tickled your fancies.
Oh dear.
Sorry.
We'll put a link to that one in the show notes as well, as well as a link on where you can sign up to the Nature briefing to get even more stories like this delivered directly to your inbox.
But for this week, all that's left to be said is I've been Benjamin Thompson, Lizzie Gibney, thank you so much for being here.
Like it sounds so simple.
They
refreshing but but at some level astounding.
Nature.
and what scientists are hoping to learn from today's eclipse.
I'm Benjamin Thompson and I'm Nick Petrichow.
Coming up, how to safely see today's eclipse in the northern hemisphere.
Right now, it's time for the research highlights, read by Dan Fox.
Back in the sixteen hundreds, Isaac Newton did a very peculiar experiment where he sat in a darkened room to dilate his pupils and then looked at a reflection of the sun in a mirror.
Now this didn't go too well for him.
He was essentially blind for several days and suffered quite severe after effects for several months.
Now I'm not a medical doctor, but let me say this quite plainly, do not
Showing 341–360 of 746 · page 18 of 38
← Previous
Next →