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CrowdScience: CrowdScience Christmas bonanza

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24/12/2021 GMT

CrowdScience Christmas bonanza

BBC World Service - CrowdScience, CrowdScience Christmas bonanza

What better way to see out 2021 than to look back at our favourite things from the year?

What better way to see out 2021 than to look back at a few of our (and your!) favourite things from the year?

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens – CrowdScience has covered a lot this year. And what better way to see out 2021 than to look back at a few of our (and your!) favourite things? Great questions are right at the top of the team’s list – especially with the way that for every one we answer, five more appear in our inbox! 

So for a festive treat, Marnie asks the crew to answer three of them. What's the sun's role in our sense of direction? Why are we so uncomfortable with other people’s sadness? And why does listening to the radio make us sleepy? (Or is it just too much eggnog…?) From our favourite listener advice on how to keep your Christmas lights untangled to why cold swimming could activate your Vagus nerve, tune in for new questions and more CrowdScience favourites to light up your holiday season!

Presented by Marnie Chesterton and many members the CrowdScience Team – Melanie Brown, Marijke Peters, Caroline Steel, Hannah Fisher, Samara Linton and Anand Jagatia.
Produced by Sam Baker for BBC World Service.

Featuring:

•	Haneul Jang, post-doctoral researcher, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
•	Juliet Rosenfeld, psychotherapist and author of The State of Disbelief: A Story of Death, Love and Forgetting
•	Mathias Basner, professor of psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania

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