We use 100 million barrels of oil every day. If we stacked each barrel on top of another, it would take us less than 5 days to reach the Moon.
“If we don’t have a planet, we’re not going to have a very good financial system,” Morgan Stanley chief executive James Gorman recently told a US congressional committee.
This episode is about the weather, about whether the weather is important (or not), about how we understand big, faceless things like the weather, and about how slippery the truth can be.
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Roundness is a cross-disciplinary podcast produced by the Queen's Library at Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet. https://www.qebarnet.co.uk
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Episode illustration: Meteorology: a table of the weather. Engraving by R. & E. Williamson, 1815, after Sir John Herschel, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Additional music: Agora, Mirah, and Doctor Turtle.
“You’re Right But I’m Me” and “Clusticus The Mistaken” by Doctor Turtle licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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