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#99: The legendary New Scientist end-of-year holiday party and quiz

The World, the Universe and Us

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The Heroes of the Year Are the Ordinary People

i think the heroes of the year are the ordinary people who have been pushing governments and companies to do more on climate change. The person i'm going for is a lauren mac donald, who stood on a stage with the er the shells o ben van burden in october at a ted event. And she called him one of the most evil people in the world. So was pretty ap of powerful confrontation. She's part of the stop ambo group, which campaigned to stop the u.Km opening up this new oil field in the north sea. Two, two weeks ago shell announced that they weren't going to go ahead with the project. That was an incredible bit of footage

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