Hannah Moore
speaker
384 appearances
14 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2014
last heard May 2015
Hannah Moore’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There are about 13,000 species worldwide, ranging from less than one millimetre to 30 millimetres in length.
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They're actually called dinosaur ants, Tim.
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Anyway, experts agree the average ant weighs about six milligrams, making it roughly 150 ants to the gram.
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Six regions hit new house price peak, says Office for National Statistics.
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The article went on to report that... East Midlands, West Midlands and South West of England have joined London, the East of England and the South East of England in rising above the peak of late 2007 and early 2008.
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A bit of history first, Tim.
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This claim was originally made by Dr Edward O. Wilson, a professor at Harvard University, in his 1994 book Journey to the Ants.
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All the same, Adam insists we fact-check.
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So I emailed Edward Wilson to ask how he calculated it, and he wrote...
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In case you're confused, Professor Wilson is rounding here.
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So 7.2 billion humans becomes roughly 10 billion humans for the purposes of this estimate.
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That's the first problem.
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I've spoken to lots of ant spurts this week, from Bristol University's Ant Lab, the Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society, the Natural History Museum... You've left no stone unturned.
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Well, that's the problem.
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There are too many stones to turn over.
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No one knows how many ants there are in the world.
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62 kilograms.
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Let's call it 60 kilograms.
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Divide that by a million and you get 60 milligrams.
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Is that about right?
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