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The Life Scientific: Lucy Carpenter

Discovery by BBC

May 11, 202626:29Religion & Spirituality

Working on a remote tropical island in the Atlantic might sound like some sort of romantic idyll - but trying to conduct scientific research on a windy, isolated volanic outcrop is no picnic, as Lucy Carpenter can attest...

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The Life Scientific: Lucy Carpenter is an episode from Discovery by BBC. Working on a remote tropical island in the Atlantic might sound like some sort of romantic idyll - but trying to conduct scientific research on a windy, isolated volan...

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