A Naked Year!

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

From talking whales to training astronauts, creating life to reversing life-threatening allergies, Georgia Mills, Izzie Clarke and few other familiar voices re-visit their favourite moments and the biggest scientific celebrations of the past year.To listen to the full podcasts these highlights have been taken from, head to thenakedscientists.com/podcasts You can also find The Naked Scientists on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, @nakedscientists. And should you wish to leave us a belated christmas present, we're trying to raise funding for next year's programming over on... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.4	Hello.
0:04.4	Hello.
0:05.4	Welcome.
0:06.4	Science and that is the same physics, medicine, nature, or
0:12.1	big time, brain, life, the universe.
0:16.0	Happy Naked New Year, 2018 has whizzed by.
0:20.0	So over the next hour, we'll be taking you through our favorite moments and the biggest scientific
0:25.2	celebrations of the past year. I'm Isie Clark. I'm Georgia Mills and this is the Naked Scientists.
0:30.8	The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk.
0:35.0	A lot of people see the new year as an opportunity to pick up a new skill and this year
0:47.4	was no different. I tried to learn a different language and failed miserably. But cute
0:53.0	Wicky the whale who was far more successful. Georgia
0:57.0	covered the story.
0:58.0	Hello?
1:02.0	Hello? She's the first killer whale ever to be recorded imitating human speech.
1:15.0	One, two.
1:17.0	One, two.
1:21.0	One, two. The point here is that we didn't want to teach English or a language to declare well.
1:32.0	That study author Jose Samarano Abraimsson from the
1:35.0	Complutants University of Madrid. So why did they do it?
1:38.7	Vocal limitation is a hallmark of human spoken language.
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