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World Service,22 Mar 1995,28 mins

Symmetry

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Why symmetry in art and science is so appealing to us. Looking at why things that can be read backwards and forwards are so pleasing to us, one of the explanations being that some of own chromosomes can be read both backwards and forwards.

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