Alok Jha: The extraordinary story of water, our most ordinary substance

6.7.2016

Skeptics in the Pub, Oxford

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Water may seem the most ordinary of substances, but you would be surprised at how profoundly strange it is. Alok Jha explains how it has shaped life on earth, and how this molecule connects you and everyone else to the birth (and death) of the universe.

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Alok Jha: The extraordinary story of water, our most ordinary substance

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