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Q: Where was the first How can I help the environment?

artificial plastic developed?
Madalyn Murray
A: England - Belonging to an Irish organization
- She buys the biggest containers
- Reusing things
The hand-me-down - The hand-me-down, passing on culture is important

pet peeve - Something that you find particularly annoying

Q: In 2011, Which country
announced gradually
stopping using, nuclear
power altogether?
A: Germany
Buying in bulk - buying a lot of something
Good nick - in good condition
How green is nuclear energy
the most well-known nuclear accident
- on the 26th of April, 1986
- at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant in Soviet Ukraine

Mirjam Vossen
Vivid memories - powerful - Dutch journalist
images and strong mental - The accident in Chornobyl changed many people's
images opinions of nuclear power in a negative way
- Accidents caused by human error will not happen in
Casualty - a person or modern nuclear power station
thing that suffers as a result - Nuclear power is the greenest way of generating energy
of something else without fossil fuels
happening - Nuclear power stations are located near seas or large
lakes
Chornobyl
Paul Dorfman

Q: What was the
inspiration behind Rafi's
idea?
C. He was late for his
lecture because of a flat
tire.
Given - assumed to be true
or certain to happen.
Q: How many tonnes of
CO2 equivalent per person
annually
A: Research found living
car-free reduces a person's
annual CO2 production by
an average of 2.04 tonnes.
food for thought -
something to think
seriously about
Q: What band wrote a song
called Lucy In The Sky
With Diamonds?
A: The Beatles
- Nuclear power produces electricity using little carbon
Making old things last longer
The world generates ↑ 2 bil tonnes of rubbish every year
Rafi Mohammad
- Fixi, his shop
- They do promise free repairs for life
Jessika Richter
- researcher at Lund University
- She thinks repairing is an endangered activity that we
used to do more of both individually and as a society
Do consumers care about carbon footprints?
Carbon footprint' - how much carbon is used through the
activities of a person, company, or country
Mark Engle
- Chief Supply Chain Officer at Unilever
- Gen Z decides to buy products based on good and
accurate information
- He committed to putting carbon footprint information on
70,000 products
Dr Zaina Gadema-Cooke
- Expert in supply chain management at Northumbria
University
- It is very difficult to include that so ‘farm-to-fork’
calculations
Changing the earth's climate
David King
- chairs the Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge
University.
- Whales live in groups called pods
- They swim up to the ocean surface to poo
- a large current of water moving in a circular motion like
a giant whirlpool
- As a result, huge areas of the ocean are covered in
nutrients
Professor Rachael James
- geochemist

Q: The word 'rat' what does
that mean in German?
A: Advice
Q: What the splitting of
white light into its different
colors is called?
A: Dispersion
Q: It's thought the largest
number in the world is
called a googol. It's written
with a 1 and how many
zeros?
- mine waste material is potentially a great source
- Mining for diamonds creates tonnes of waste rock
Are there benefits to schadenfreude?
Schadenfreude
- Enjoying someone's misfortune can certainly make us
feel good.
- Scientists have shown this feeling is quite normal
-
Wilco Van Dijk
- University of Leiden,
- Psychologist
- The misfortune of another appeals to a sense of justice
- the punishment someone receives is fair
Dr Tiffany Watt-Smith
- When something goes wrong for someone, we can
commiserate with them
How color affects us
We choose color to express ourselves in what we wear or how
we decorate our home
Karen Haller
- A color psychologist
- A color designer
- color is wavelengths of light
- wavelength is the distance between two waves of sound
or light that are next to each other
Color can affect us differently
Before Covid (ppl tired)
- Ppl use pale colors to relax
During lockdown
- Ppl put brighter color
The fear of numbers
Charles Seife
- The number is the most powerful tool for deception
advertisers marketers
- But numbers are persuasive
- Girls are more anxious about learning math
A: a mere 100 zeros
Q: Which country is the
world’s happiest in 2020?
Paula Miles
- Psychology teacher at St Andrew's Uni
- We all have the potential to be the number one person
Looking for utopia

A: Finland Kate Raworth

2nd Denmark - Economist
- Ppl in Amsterdam are trying to live within the doughnut

Mindset That describes the Bert van Son

fixed thoughts and attitudes - CEO of Mud Jeans
someone has. - benefit of the doughnut economy by treating people
fairly and with respect

Q: There is s scientific field Why laughter is the best medicine

of study into laughter and
its effects on the human
body, What is this study
called?
A: Gelotology
Laughing is most strong medicine
Sophie Scott
- Laughin is a variation of breathing
- Ha-ha sound comes from your rib cage
Expression for laughing
Chuckle, giggle, chortle, cackle, and guffaw

For every six minutes, there are two speakers. They explain the topic with some interviews for
each expert. There is also a quiz related to the topic.

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