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More Or Less asks if Oscar-winner John Legend was right to say that there are more black men ‘under correctional control’ in the United States now than were in slavery in 1850? Ruth Alexander and Wesley Stephenson look into the statistics, and consider how US prisoner numbers compare with those of other countries. Plus, how many Lego bricks, stacked one on top of the other, would it take to destroy the bottom brick? The UK’s Open University engineering department finds out.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Trending reports how Russian and Ukrainian students are reaching out to each other via videos in which they debate the conflict in Eastern Ukraine. The videos have attracted millions of views, though in most cases, disagreement still prevails. Plus, is it right for parents to post videos about their young transgender children who want to live and be known as a different gender from the one they were born as? What are the implications if those stories are viewed millions of times across the world? ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Trending speaks to the mother of a young child who wants to live as a girl, and finds out what the transgender community makes of these videos.
The Why Factor asks why we like to build tall and high? Are Skyscrapers simply about vanity or are there practical and even spiritual reasons why we want to defy gravity? Mike Williams ventures up the Shard, the tallest building in London, with its architect Renzo Piano. He talks to Blair Kamin, Architecture Critic at the Chicago Tribune – the city that brought us the skyscraper. As well as experts Daniel Safarik, from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat and Dr. Phillip Oldfield, from the University of Nottingham.