A secret Soviet Union experiment and when Britain was buried under ice!
Fun Kids Science Quest
Fun Kids
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Did you know that 25,000 years ago Britain was buried under miles of ice? We know this by looking at the landscape that the ice carved out and the soils left behind - like mud that formed at the bottom of lakes, that were created when the glaciers melted. Dan chats to researcher Matt Carney to find out more about the last Ice Age.
Plus, we learn about what happened to a secret Soviet Union project to drill as deep as possible into the Earth's crust, our science expert Tom explains how salt got into the oceans and we shrink down to microbe level to meet Bene and Mal!
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| 0:00.0 | This is a podcast from the children's radio station Fun Kids. Listen on DAB digital radio across the UK or online at funkidslive.com. |
| 0:11.1 | Welcome to the Fun Kids Science Weekly. This is the show where we find out all the amazing, wonderful and dangerous things in the universe that science throws our way. |
| 0:23.6 | Now my name's Dan. Thank you so much for coming along. Today we will hear how the Bloodhound Supersonic Car is getting on in its battle to travel over 1,000 miles an hour on land. |
| 0:32.6 | Also, we'll take a trip to Saturn to have a look at the rings with the space cadets, |
| 0:36.6 | and we will dive deep into the earth with Dangerous Dan. |
| 0:39.7 | Having a look at a big old hole, first we're catching up with our germ friends, Benny and Mao. |
| 0:44.7 | Now these are two microbes and they tell us loads more about science of biology and how your body works. |
| 0:51.5 | Today it's all about what's good and bad for you. |
| 1:00.0 | Good bugs, bad bugs, with support from society for general microbiology. Microbes get everywhere. They're on us, in us and around us. If you've got a microscope, like me, you can see them for yourself. Look. |
| 1:10.0 | All right there. That's better. a microscope, like me, you can see them for yourself. Look. |
| 1:14.4 | All right there. |
| 1:18.5 | That's Benny. He's a helpful sort of microbe. Lots of microbes are. |
| 1:21.7 | Not you again. Can't you leave us in peace? |
| 1:27.3 | And that's Mal. He's not very nice. A few microbes are horrible and they're called germs. Charming. I'm not all that |
| 1:29.1 | keen on you either. Pff! Hey easy, Malmate. You're not doing yourself any favours there. So what's up |
| 1:36.1 | guys? Well, what we thought would be quite nice is to introduce you to a few of our microbe mates. |
| 1:41.7 | Show you some of the shapes and sizes they come in. And hopefully you'll catch |
| 1:45.5 | a horrible, snotty cold, and you have to stay in bed and stop bothering us. I'm so sorry he can't |
| 1:53.0 | help it. It's just the way he is. You're embarrassing me. Have you looked in the mirror recently? |
| 1:59.5 | So microbes, we're really tiny. |
| 2:02.7 | You could fit about 50 bacterial cells across the width of one human hair. |
| 2:07.6 | Viruses are even titgier. |
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