Marnie Chesterton

Voinko kertoa sinulle minun eurooppalaisen elokuvani, joka on, että luulen, että se oli Aristotle, joka tuli ulos tästä teoriaan, että elokuvat tuli spontaanisesti ulos. Ja se oli basically only in 2022 that we managed to prove him wrong. I read about that fact too, and I think he came up with that theory because he couldn't find any larvae. So he was like, it's spontaneous. Yeah.

Toivottavasti, ratkaisu! Jep. Joten kuitenkin, takaisin tällaiselle laajemmalliselle laajemmallisuudelle. Nykyiset tekniikat liittyvät laajemmalliselle laajemmallisuudelle, mutta tämä ei todennäköisesti toimi hyvin erilaisista syistä. Ja niin Suomessa, joka on kuitenkin suurin osa laajemmallisista laajemmallisista laajemmallisista tänään, he käyttävät noin 75 prosenttia maailmasta. He ovat todella kiinnostuneita löytämään paremman metodin laajemmallisesta laajemmallisesta laajemmallisesta laajemmallisesta. Okei, niin miten tämä Suomen ryhmä laajemmalla laajemmalla laajemmalla?

He pystyivät replikaatioon replikaatioon, jota nämä eläimet tekevät maailmassa. He käyttivät satelliittitrackin teknologiaa, jossa analysoivat ympäristövaihtoehtoja ja syödettäviä eläimiä luonnon luonnossa. Sitten he rakensivat seksuaalisia puutteita labissa, joilla replikaatio on replikaatio.

Esimerkiksi yhdellä puululla, jossa he tekevät röörin, he pysyivät uudistuneita röörit vettä, jolla oli luonnollinen näkymätöntä. Tämä oli käytännössä simulaatio, jossa he olivat syntyneet. Maturaatio-puululla tutkijat olivat varmasti varovaisesti kontrollineet luonnollisuuden, luonnollisuuden ja luonnollisen kohdallisuuden. Tämä vaikuttaa tiettyihin signaaleihin, jotka saavat heidät alkaa muodostaa.

Now if all this sounds really meticulous and laborious, it certainly was, but the payoff was worth it, because they managed to successfully cultivate more than 3,000 breeding pairs, which resulted in 3 million little baby eels. That's fantastic. And is this all because eels taste delicious? Yes. Eels are considered a delicacy in Japan. Have either of you heard of or tasted unagi?

I have, yes. I'm still not sure whether I should be eating it because I know that the eel is endangered, but it is delicious. I'm personally not a fan. Basically, it's eel brushed with soy sauce glaze that's then grilled over charcoal, so it does sound really delicious.

Japan is the largest consumer of eels. They consume roughly 70% of the global catch. But this also means that eel population numbers have dropped partly because of this. Sadly, they've declined by about 90% over the last 30 or 40 years due to overfishing and other factors, and they're now considered endangered by the IUCN.

Tämä haastattelu on todella hyvää uutta, erityisesti jos se voidaan kehittää toisille eläimille. Suomalaiset eläimet ovat tehneet viime vuosina hyökkäyksen, jolloin eläimiturvallisuudet siirtävät heidän toimintojaan maailmallemme. Tämä kuuluu professori Li Baumgartnerille, joka puhui täällä viime vuonna konferenssissa.

He says that eel trafficking is a massive industry globally. In 2020 there were more eels trafficked to Asia than there were drugs and guns. In the illegal market in Europe, something like 3 billion euros of trafficked eels every year. Can I just ask, does that mean that I've potentially eaten an illegally trafficked eel?

I don't know whether the trafficking is going both ways, and I don't know how much of the illegal market is happening internal within Europe, but certainly trafficked from Europe to the East is the problem.

Well, thank you, Leonie, and also Sandy. I love that we've all got an eel from our bit of the world, and they all have epic journeys. And I do wonder what it is that's got the eel doing this, because you would have thought that breeding with the eel next door is kind of simpler and easier way of passing on your genes, but there you go.

Listeners, any eel stories you'd like to share? The email address, the eel mail address is unexpected at bbc.co.uk.

And we make space each week to open up the postbag and see what you've been sending in. Let's go first to our WhatsApp messages. We've got one from Mr. Sadek in Saudi Arabia. Leonie, do you want to read it first? Sure. Mr. Sadek says, The radiation and isotope issue took my attention in your last episode when you said that some of our food is radioactive.

Minun kysymykseni on, miten yleiset ihmiset voivat tutkia tai olla varmoja, että onko jotain huomattavaa ruokaa, ja pysyä välttämällä sitä? Minun pitäisi sanoa, että viimeisellä jaksona, se oli Chinoven 40 vuotta sitten,

And we were talking about radiation. I mentioned that bananas and Brazil nuts are radioactive. They aren't the only food. Carrots, potatoes, butter beans, lots of other things are a tiny bit radioactive. Let's be clear here. This is not because they've somehow been contaminated. It's because there's naturally occurring isotopes. They're radioactive variants of elements like potassium, carbon, radium. They're all present in the air and the soil. So...

It's not really a cause for concern. One banana contains approximately 1% of the radiation that you're exposed to every single day just by existing. And just to check, the science unit calculated how many bananas you'd need to eat before you died of acute radiation poisoning. And it's about 5 million bananas. Your stomach would burst first. So there you go.

I don't think I've ever eaten a million bananas in my lifetime, or that I ever will, actually. Yeah, my brothers used to play a who can eat the most, and I think it was 18, and you feel a bit unwell after that, so I wouldn't recommend. Anyway, back to our postbag.

Last year we had a lot of conversations about the ways in which people try to fall asleep. And Estelle in England has obviously been catching up on old episodes because she's emailed in with her method. Sandy, can you read this? So Estelle says...

I have a method that works really well for me, and yet each time I have told someone about it, they have been totally baffled by it. I mentally go for a walk somewhere familiar, usually in nature. I picture myself leaving my house, walking down the road, turning left or right on particular paths through my local wood or park. I think about particular trees or other sites. I choose if I'm going to take the hill or the smaller paths. I have never made it back to my house on these walks, so they must work. It's definitely worth a try.

Well, I will add that to the rolodex of things to try. Yeah, I recently came across this technique last year. It's called cognitive shuffling. I don't know if you guys have heard of it, but it was invented by an academic in Canada. So you think of a word, like a random word, like cake, for example, and you take the first letter and you try to name as many words that start with C, for example, and you imagine it. So like coffee or cat or carrot, car, and you picture it each time and then you...