Africa
PlaceOn 8 shows in Health & Science over 30 days
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. Including adjacent islands, it covers about 30.3 million square kilometres—around 20% of Earth's land area—and is home to nearly 1.4 billion people; it has the youngest population of any continent. Africa spans the Mediterranean coast to the southern Atlantic and Indian Ocean shores and includes diverse environments, cultures, and countries.
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Mentions of Africa per 1,000 mentions of anything, 7-day rolling, health & science.
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| Day | Share (7-day) | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 11 | 0.80‰ | 1 |
| Aug 19 | 0.63‰ | 1 |
| Aug 21 | 1.16‰ | 1 |
| Aug 26 | 1.49‰ | 2 |
| Sep 13 | 0.59‰ | 1 |
| Sep 14 | 2.33‰ | 3 |
| Sep 16 | 2.81‰ | 1 |
| Sep 20 | 2.59‰ | 1 |
| Sep 21 | 1.47‰ | 1 |
| Sep 28 | 0.50‰ | 1 |
| Sep 30 | 0.94‰ | 1 |
| Oct 5 | 0.99‰ | 1 |
| Oct 7 | 1.12‰ | 1 |
Why is it trending?
Africa appears in discussions of origins, ecology, climate, and disease
The shows most often connect Africa with human origins and migration, including hominid evidence outside Africa and ancestors who lived there before stories may have spread worldwide.[1][2][3]
Africa also appears as a source of natural and archaeological context: Ethiopian opals, ancient landscapes in the Sahel, and peatlands in the Congo Basin.[4][5][6]
Science discussions describe the Sahara as a major source of dust that can travel across the ocean and influence hurricane formation.[7]
Other episodes use Africa in broader explanations of domesticated cats, cross-cultural family expectations, and HIV/AIDS claims read from a disputed argument.[8][9][10]
The shows do not present one shared argument about Africa; they use it as context for separate topics in geology, evolution, ecology, climate, culture, and health.[4][5][8]
Sources · 10 moments
- 1.The Rest Is Science · What Was A Mammoth Doing At The Bottom Of The Sea?Hannah Fry · Oct 7 · Listen at 17:59 ↗
“Okay, this is the oldest evidence of hominids outside of Africa, and it's on a beach in Norfolk. I love thinking about history through... Our geology. That's going to live on a shelf in my house now.”
- 2.Huberman Lab Essentials · Bringing Extinct Species Back to Life | Dr. Beth ShapiroBeth Shapiro · Oct 5 · Listen at 9:55 ↗
“that they found in a cave, Denisova Cave in Russia. That's why they're called Denisovans. We know that there were multiple different species or lineages or whatever you want to call them of human-like people that were alive at the same time”
- 3.Unexplainable · What's the oldest story ever told?Meradith Hoddinott · Sep 14 · Listen at 7:45 ↗
“Yeah. Like, you know how all humans came from Africa?”
- 4.Ologies with Alie Ward — Discard Anthropology (GARBAGE) · Silification Geology (OPALS) with Patrice ReyAlie Ward · Sep 30 · Listen at 9:52 ↗
“volcanic Ethiopian opals, which tend to be less expensive than the Australian ones, were discovered relatively recently by the gem industry, at least, in the mid-1990s. But of course, they've been hiding in those magma-formed mountains of n”
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