An illness that turns humans into trees and donating our organs
Fun Kids Science Quest
Fun Kids
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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2018 is the year of engineering! So Dan has sent our resident inventor Sir Sidney McSprocket all over the country to chat with real life engineers to find out which famous inventors inspired them!
Plus Dangerous Dan is looking at an illness that turns you tree-like, we're finding out about Britain's digital railways with Bex and Dad and are termites really just cockroaches?
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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. |
| 0:09.9 | Well, strap yourselves in. It's another episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly. |
| 0:15.7 | Hello, thanks for giving us a listen. My name's Dan. This is the place where only the most amazing, weird and |
| 0:22.6 | deadly things in the universe can be spoken of. You know, it's a bit like he who must not be |
| 0:27.8 | named from Harry Potter, only there's more rockets and large Hadron Colliders. Now today, |
| 0:32.8 | we're chatting about a disorder that turns people into trees. Also, we'll chat about ancient tattoos and we'll learn how trains get their power. |
| 0:43.3 | First, it's over to our Geology Rocks series. |
| 0:46.3 | This is with one of our fun kids friends called Finley, and today he's having a look at how the Earth is made and what its history's been. |
| 0:55.5 | Geology rocks. |
| 0:57.3 | The Geological Society. |
| 1:03.3 | I love being outside. |
| 1:06.8 | Well, I'm not going to find any rocks or fossils indoors, am I? |
| 1:10.3 | It's nice to get a breath of fresh air. |
| 1:17.2 | You probably know that we need oxygen to breathe. |
| 1:19.4 | But where does it come from? |
| 1:21.3 | The answer is plants? |
| 1:22.9 | Maybe you didn't know that. |
| 1:27.4 | But it's not like they're doing us a massive favour. |
| 1:28.3 | Plants need us as well. |
| 1:29.3 | It's part of a process called photosynthesis. |
| 1:33.3 | To put it simply, plants skip out oxygen which we breathe in |
| 1:38.3 | and we breathe out carbon dioxide which plants absorb. |
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