Ruth Alexander
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4,250 appearances
120 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2011
last heard Aug 2018
Ruth Alexander’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Experts say that's five or six times higher than countries you'd expect it to be on a par with, like Canada and those in Western Europe.
So why is that?
Well, there's debate about exactly why.
But experts point to a vigorous legal system, a high number of convictions and tough sentencing.
It is, but, you know, Wes, that's not the real important question about Lego.
A loyal listener, Martin McManus, knows.
Martin had seen the weighty issue being pondered extensively on the website Reddit and thought we might have something to add.
Well, we got straight on to our friends at the Open University Engineering Department in the UK.
Well, yes, but in fact they got the lab all fired up and invited me over.
Lecturer Dr Ian Johnston was at the vanguard.
How do we go about working this out?
so there was one poor little lego brick sat between two metal plates yes it was a two by two lego brick and the load on top of it got larger and larger and then wait for it yeah nothing nothing well not much oh it's farting i know it isn't i was looking at the nuts at the top it stopped doing anything
What does that mean?
No, the brick just kind of melted.
Well, Ian and the team did two more tests to be sure we hadn't just happened upon the strongest Lego brick in existence.
And in fact, they were impressed at the consistency of Lego manufacture.
They're not as good, though.
You can't say that.
375,000 bricks towering 3.5 kilometres high is what it would take to break a Lego brick.
A 2x2 brick, that is.
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